Medical Engineering

Medical Engineering

New Urinalysis Strips Enhance Kidney Disease Monitoring

These strips provide nine tests to detect and monitor kidney disease across the continuum of patient care. They can be used on Siemens’ CLINITEK Status®…

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Disposable ‘lab-on-a-chip’ may save costs and lives

Researchers in the European SEMOFS (Surface Enhanced Micro Optical Fluidic Systems) team knew that, to reach their goal of disposable cartridges capable of…

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New Tool Enhances Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis Precision

This technique could be used in the next years in hospitals. It may help doctors to detect tumours with greater precision than is possible using current X-ray…

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Optical Sensors Enhance Safety in MRI Scans

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful, non-invasive way of obtaining detailed internal images of the human body. Unlike x-rays, MRI does not use…

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7 Tesla MRI: Pioneering Clearer Images of the Human Body

Magnetic resonance tomographs, which use a magnetic field of 7 tesla, have not yet been in operation in hospitals and clinics, but have solely served research….

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Delft University Patents New Method for Radioisotope Production

It has made global headlines recently: hospitals are facing a shortage of radio isotopes which means that patients will have to wait longer for cancer…

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PTB Combines Magnetic Resonance and Radar in New Prototype

Don't move a muscle! Patients certainly have to take this request to heart if they have to lie in a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) device – otherwise…

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New System Predicts Premature Births: A World-First Innovation

Australian researchers and a pathology company have joined forces to develop a world-first computerised system which may reveal a way to predict premature…

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3T MRI Enhances Diagnosis of Focal Epilepsy

“Patients with focal epilepsy have recurrent seizures that result from a specific area of their brain, usually due to a structural brain abnormality,” said…

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Tiny 3-D Ultrasound Probe Enhances Catheter Procedures

Duke University biomedical engineers designed and fabricated the novel ultrasound probe which is powerful enough to provide detailed, 3-D images. The new…

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Siemens Launches TubeGuard for CT Scanner Monitoring

Siemens Healthcare now offers “TubeGuard” for all computed tomography (CT) scanners of its Somatom Definition product family. TubeGuard is an additional option…

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Innovative Less-Invasive Stents for Aortic Aneurysm Treatment

An estimated 60,000 Americans are walking around with time bombs in their chests called thoracic aortic aneurysms.At any time, their main chest artery could…

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Call for Experts: Expand Medical Device Materials Database

Developed by ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio and Granta Design, Cambridge, UK, the database is currently comprised of an Orthopaedic Module and a…

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Siemens’ New Ultrasound Platform Revolutionizes the Paradigm of Echocardiography

Siemens Healthcare unveils the Acuson SC2000 volume imaging ultrasound system, the first system in the world to acquire non-stitched real-time full-volume 3D…

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Life Under the Laser: £1.3M Project Revolutionizes Healthcare

The cutting edge laser technology has helped to attract £1.3 million from the MRC (Medical Research Council) for a five-year project that will offer a new…

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State's first single incision robotic kidney removal

“We made several improvements in the technique that could allow us to perform this type of procedure routinely,” says Craig Rogers, M.D., Henry Ford's director…

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