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.
Research to shed new light on how statins benefit heart patients
Dr Sarah Calaghan from the University’s Faculty of Biological Sciences has been awarded £80,000 from Heart Research UK to progress her preliminary evidence…
New technology to help stroke patients re-learn movement to be trialled at Southampton
Researchers from the University’s School of Health Professions & Rehabilitation Sciences and the School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS). have developed…
Photoacoustic images add valuable information to conventional mammography
From first tests on patients using the ‘photoacoustic mammoscope’ developed by the University of Twente, researcher dr. Srirang Manohar concludes that the…
New technique can be breakthrough for early cancer diagnosis
In an article in the latest issue of Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, Uppsala University researchers describe a technique that the journal regards as…
New 3D light microscopy method reveals new perspectives on the dynamics of the cell’s skeleton
The technological advance, which is published in the current online issue of Nature Methods, allows for the first time the observation of the intrinsic dynamic…
New imaging technique reveals fatty hearts in pre-diabetics
The technique detects fat accumulation in cells of the beating heart in a way no other clinical method can, the researchers said, and may provide a way to…