Medical Engineering
The development of medical equipment, products and technical procedures is characterized by high research and development costs in a variety of fields related to the study of human medicine.
innovations-report provides informative and stimulating reports and articles on topics ranging from imaging processes, cell and tissue techniques, optical techniques, implants, orthopedic aids, clinical and medical office equipment, dialysis systems and x-ray/radiation monitoring devices to endoscopy, ultrasound, surgical techniques, and dental materials.
Vanderbilt Team First to Blend High-End Imaging Techniques
Microscopy can yield high-resolution images of tissues, but “it really doesn’t give you molecular information,” said Richard Caprioli, Ph.D., senior author of…
Developing radically new technologies for X-ray systems
Moreover, examinations involving cardiovascular diseases can be carried out without contrast agents. Nearly one out of ten patients suffer from allergic…
New machine-perfusion organ preservation system keeps livers healthier for transplant
The findings, which were published online in the American Journal of Transplantation, suggest that it's possible to use the technique of “machine perfusion”…
One Nanoparticle, Six Types of Medical Imaging
It’s technology so advanced that the machine capable of using it doesn’t yet exist.
Portable stimulator being tested on Parkinson patients
Parkinson’s disease is a slowly degenerative neurological disease that is expressed as impaired motor control, tremors, stiffness and, in later stages,…
New High-Speed 3D Microscope—Scape—Gives Deeper View of Living Things
Opening new doors for biomedical and neuroscience research, Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering and of…