The maintenance, improvement and restoration of human health are of fundamental importance and priority in all countries. Biomedical and health research provide an important basis for the improvement of healthy living. Among the many diseases affecting human health, disorders of the brain are major ...

Hannes Harms is set to complete his MA/MSC at the prestigious Royal College of Art this year, and his graduation project is a worthy complement to Ergonomidesign's "miniMe," which we saw yesterday. Harms's ultrasound concept is a perfect example of a 'specialized device' within a future health ecosy...

A new way of automating multiple computed tomography (CT) scans could make whole-brain 3D mapping a routine task. The technique, termed serial two-photon (STP) tomography, automates and standardises the process in which brain samples are divided into sections and then imaged sequentially at preci...

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As the trend to create medical technology at the nanoscale size increases, so will the need to accurately examine structures at the nanoscale level. But studying properties of specific molecules and cells has often resulted in destroying them, so new technologies are needed for noninvasive examinati...

Aaron A. Rowe over at Chemical and Engineering News has an excellent review of a bunch of research projects that are using light to monitor all sorts of medical conditions and diagnostic parameters. What’s interesting to note is that many of these projects can be done with off-the-shelf technolog...

  Join us in Madrid for a Horizon Lecture on Imaging Osteoarthitis, given by Dr Garry Gold! Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis, affecting about 15% of persons over 60 years of age. A major cause of disability and a major source of pain and functional limitations, ...

Medical imaging has revolutionized healthcare and is essential in the detection and treatment of injury and disease. Modern equipment and protocols ensure that patients, physicians, and technicians are exposed to the lowest possible amounts of radiation, while still providing accurate results and di...

... What has not been appreciated, pathologists and public health officials say, are the far-reaching consequences for U.S. health care of minuscule autopsy rates. Diagnostic errors, which studies show are common, go undiscovered, allowing physicians to practice on other patients with a false ...

The global market for 3D medical imaging is forecast to reach $5.9 billion by 2017, primarily driven by technological advancements resulting in improved equipment, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts. The number of 3D medical imaging procedures being performed has increased, alo...

Scientists in Norway are exploring ways to stream high definition images of the human organs via a pill that's swallowed by patients. The imaging pill concept would give medical professionals the capacity to view parts of the body - like the intestines and stomach - in unprecedented detail. Th...

During the Digital Green Growth Award ceremony, The French Association for Communications and Information on Sustainable Development (A.C.I.D.D) and its partners  awarded Orange the “Environmentally Committed Digital Enterprise Award” for its Shared Medical Imaging solution. The Digital Gre...

Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for tracking structures called carbon nanotubes in living cells and the bloodstream, which could aid efforts to perfect their use in biomedical research and clinical medicine. The structures have potential applications in drug delivery to treat dis...

The Benefits of Advanced Medical Imagery The objective of AMI-4EUROPE is to coordinate and integrate research-driven clusters in order to benefit from the opportunities that advanced medical imaging can bring for European society. AMI has transformed medicine by enabling physicians to provide trea...

To detect the presence of infectious proteins called prions in the blood before the first symptoms. This is the main application of a new optical sensor developed by a team of Spanish and American scientists. The system, based on a crystal structure of gold nanoparticles, is a breakthrough in early ...

(Media-Newswire.com) - Abhijit J. Chaudhari, assistant professor of radiology, recently received two honors recognizing his contributions to medical imaging. The Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council ( NMISC ) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded Chaudhari the 2...

LONG ISLAND, N.Y., Nov. 15, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AccuVein Inc., a global leader in medical imaging technology and the creator of the AV300, the world's first and lightest portable, non-contact vein illumination device, announced today that it will be exhibiting at the Medica World Forum for M...

New technology has been developed which could help radiologists perform volumetric reads two to three times quicker. Developed by Blackford Analysis, the medical imaging technology makes it possible for radiologists to anatomically link small features such as lung nodules between studies for the fir...

SIRM- SOCIETA ITALIANA RADIOLOGIA MEDICA 10/11/2011 Milano Tecniche Avanzate in RM: Diffusione e Spettroscopia Programma scientifico 10/11/2011-11/11/2011 Caltanissetta Corso Teorico Pratico "Laboratorio RM Body: Protocolli e Casistica Ragionata" 10/11/2011-12/11/2011 Pisa Corso Avanzato Re...

There is no doubt that medical imaging technologies have become indispensable to hospitals, clinics and other medical organizations. These days, doctors heavily depend on imaging software to provide accurate diagnoses of variety of illnesses. Over the years, PACS/RIS have become commonly used imagi...

The Obama administration recently passed on an opportunity to prevent the Patient Protection  and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) from going to the Supreme Court, so we could have a decision about the Act’s constitutionality by next summer. In the meantime, though, it’s best to proceed as if PPA...

A new device that combines two microimaging technologies can reveal both the detailed anatomy of arterial linings and biological activities that, in coronary arteries, could indicate the risk of heart attacks or the formation of clots in arterial stents. In their report receiving early online releas...

The mHealth Summit is the largest annual gathering dedicated to mHealth in the world and convenes a global group of researchers, health professionals & industry. It is hard to easily comprehend the depth and breadth of Dr. Topol’s career. He has been a major figure in cardiology, genomics...

Because the incidence of malignant melanoma is rising faster than any other cancer in the U.S., researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues at Tampa-based Intezyne Technologies, Inc., Western Carolina University and the University of Arizona are working overtime to develop ne...

The ADHD-200 Global Competition, announced earlier this year, was designed to encourage researchers to develop better tools for diagnosing mental health disorders on the basis of neuroimaging data. Read more ...

High-definition CT scans reduce radiation exposure Canadian Journal of Cardiology (www.onlinecjc.ca) has published a paper on the safety of cardiac imaging methods. This study is important for patients worried about radiation exposure during X-ray based studies of the heart. X-ray based method...

Researchers at UCLA have found a possible explanation for why autistic children act and think differently than their peers. For the first time, they've shown that the connections between brain regions that are important for language and social skills grow much more slowly in boys with autism than in...

There is no doubt that medical imaging software is a vital part of modern medicine. Today doctors rely heavily on imaging software to provide diagnoses of a whole variety of illnesses.In nearly all fields of medicine, scans and imaging software are used by doctors to see the body’s interior for ac...

A technologically advanced, new generation remote-controlled tilting table for radiography and fluoroscopy brings about workflow and cost optimization.   Read more ... (free registration required)

Magnetic resonance tractography (MRT) is a valuable, noninvasive imaging tool for evaluating human brain anatomy, and as MRT methods and technologies evolve, has the potential to yield new and revealing information on brain activity and connectivity.   Read more ... (free registration req...

A new study performed on nine patients with ovarian cancer in Germany has shown that new multispectral fluorescence technology can be used to localize cancer cells during surgery. Read more ... (Free Registration Required)

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), an important diagnostic modality, has conventionally been off limits to more than 2 million people in the United States alone who have an implanted pacemaker to regulate heart rhythms or an implanted defibrillator to prevent sudden cardiac death. Now, cardiologists ...

Online research website, Research and Markets has released a report titled "US Cloud Computing Market for Medical Imaging-Exponential Growth in the Volume of Medical Imaging Data to Drive Market". The report was created based on data obtained from primary and secondary research, databases and analy...

Advanced Medical Imaging Developments and Applications for Neuroscience Research National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD June 9, 2011 Final Meeting Report (pdf)  

A lens with barely the power of a toy magnifying glass can turn iPhones into pocket-sized medical imaging devices capable of showing the size and count of red blood cells. The new smartphone makeover offers doctors or nurses a handy tool for diagnosing blood-related health conditions or diseases in ...

A proportion of patients who are classified by MRI as having lumbar disc herniation or spinal stenosis could be receiving incorrect diagnoses, according to researchers in The Netherlands. The authors noted that although MRI is used for diagnostic confirmation of serious underlying pathology in ca...

New diagnostic imaging technique could better differentiate benign lung lesions from cancerous ones. This technique could prevent unnecessary surgery by enabling more accurate diagnosis of the disease. Read more ...

Akeso Medical Imaging (“Akeso”) is the first company in the world to develop a non-invasive optical imaging device that supports the rheumatologist in objective assessment of inflammatory status in RA. Inflammatory status is a key parameter for rheumatologists in the treatment decisions for pati...

A new imaging technique could help doctors and researchers more accurately assess the extent of nerve damage and healing in a live patient. Researchers at Laval University in Qu-bec and Harvard Medical School in Boston aimed lasers at rats' damaged sciatic nerves to create images of the individual n...

Scientists reveal in more detail than ever before how white blood cells kill diseased tissue using deadly granules, in research published today in PLoS Biology. The researchers, from Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, used 'optical' laser tweezers and a super-resolution micros...

With a gamma ray radiation, which is electromagnetic radiation of a very short wavelength, scientists created a beam a thousand billion times brighter than the sun. With this, they hope to improve imaging techniques in medicine. In order to create this incredible intense beam, researchers at the un...

Reporting in the journal Neurology online Sept. 14, the Johns Hopkins researchers found that none of the study participants, all of whom underwent a spinal digital subtraction angiography, or SpDSA, at The Johns Hopkins Hospital between 2000 and 2010, had suffered either a stroke or any kidney damag...

Ovarian cancer is one of the most frequent forms of cancer that affect women. As tumors can initially grow unchecked in the abdomen without causing any major symptoms, patients are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage and have to undergo surgery plus chemotherapy. During the operation, surgeons at...

Multivariate pattern analysis of MRI brain-scan data differentiated children and adolescents with autism from neurotypical children, according to a study published online in the September issue of Biological Psychiatry. The results showed distinct structural abnormalities in the brains of autisti...

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Patients who suffer from fear in small, enclosed spaces (claustrophobia) experience less anxiety if examined in open than in closed MRI scanners, according to a study by Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin[1]. The study compared two modern MR scanners with patients with an increased risk of ...

The number of women getting mammograms has dropped, and hormone therapy may be the culprit. The first ever drop in mammography rates were witnessed in 2005. Rates were first measured in 1987 and have been on the rise ever since. So, what caused this decline? A new analysis published in CANCER,...

A recently released report by Technavio, specialists in emerging technologies market research, reveals that the Global 3D Medical Imaging Systems market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.8 percent. According to Technavio’s industry analyst, “The 3D Medical Imaging market in the APAC region i...

A research team led by electrical and computer engineering professor Gabriel Popescu at Illinois University has developed spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM), an imaging method that can measure cell mass using two beams of light. Described in the Proceedings of the National Academ...

Amnis Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced cell imaging systems, today announced that the company has been acquired by EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Germany. David A. Basiji, co-founder and CEO of Amnis said, "The combination of Amnis with EMD Millipore will greatl...

For the first time, scientists can see pathways to stop a deadly brain cancer in its tracks. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have imaged individual cancer cells and the routes they travel as the tumor spreads. The researchers used a novel cryo-imaging technique...

A magnet makes "travel" through stomach and intestines possible via capsule endoscopy It is really a very "fine" thing: Instead of a relatively thick endoscope, patients now only need to swallow a very small capsule containing two tiny cameras that provide clear images of the interior of the stom...

Using ultrasound to find carotid plaque with a high fat content and signs of emboli in cerebral arteries can help identify people with asymptomatic carotid disease at a higher risk of stroke, a prospective observational study found. Those with the echolucent plaque in their carotid arteries had a...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that structural elements in the cell play a crucial role in organizing the motion of cell-surface receptors, proteins that enable cells to receive signals from other parts of the organism. This discovery, published in the Aug. 19 issue of the ...

The report Global 3D Medical Imaging Systems Market 2010-2014 forecasts that the 3D medical imaging systems market is due to increase at a CAGR of 8.8% during the period 2010-2014. One of the main factors contributing to this market growth is the superior visualisation offered by this technology....

The developing nuclear disaster in Japan is generating much press about radiation and cancer risks. CurrentMedicine.TV developed a condensed table comparing the radiation doses from Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and common medical imaging studies. Astonishingly, many common medical imaging tests...

A new system for monitoring drugs and disease in the body using vibrating organic molecules is under development at Nottingham University. Researchers are hoping to create a medical imaging system that can track the progress of disease, drug molecules or stem cells with tiny self-assembling struc...

Magnetic resonance imaging has an increasingly important role in the early detection and diagnosis of osteoarthritis, although for now it remains one of several diagnostic tools that also include x-rays, clinical findings, and lab results. Physicians who treat patients with osteoarthritis (OA) ne...

The first two contracts for advanced development of drugs to treat gastrointestinal (GI) tract injuries associated with acute radiation syndrome were awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). The contracts are part of a...

Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) is an effective way to diagnose kids with heart problems. Now, newer techniques are making CTA safer for pediatric patients, according to research presented at the SCCT annual meeting. "Traditionally, pediatric patients who require coronary art...

The global diagnostic imaging market is expected to grow from $20.7 billion in 2010 to $26.6 billion by 2016, at an estimated CAGR of 4.2% from 2011 to 2016. Increasing aging population and widening applications of diagnostic imaging due to continuous developments are predominantly driving the diagn...

Medical images are the largest and fastest growing component for enterprise storage in a healthcare system. The use of these images is critical to delivering quality care. The economics of image management will continue the drive for storage solutions. This will prove to be the impetus for better al...

Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology doesn't improve the accuracy of mammography and increases a woman's risk of being called back unnecessarily, according to a study released Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Lead author Dr. Joshua Fenton, from the University of Ca...

Don’t miss a step into the next generation of Medical Imaging (10 am, October 13, 2011) at BIOTECHNICA in Hannover. In cooperation with the Theo Förster Institute of the University of Gottingen, BIOTECHNICA and PhotonicNet, BiomeTI presents the new AMI-4Europe Medical Imaging Workshop. ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — June 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Based on its recent analysis of the medical imaging analytics market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes EDDA Technology (EDDA) with the 2011 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation. Technology innovation is a core cul...

Even healthy patients with low cholesterol are at a greater risk of heart attack or stroke if their CT scans show calcium buildup in their coronary arties, a new study has found. The study, published in the July 19 edition of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, involved 3,714 pati...

Magnetic resonance enterography should be the imaging method of choice for radiologists diagnosing children with inflammatory bowel diseases, a new study published online in the American Journal of Roentgenologyargues. In a pictorial essay, Majid Chalian, MD, and colleagues at Johns Hopkins Uni...

When Radiology Business Journal was founded four years ago, it was with the understanding that IT represented not just the platform for image interpretation, exchange, and archiving, but also a broad foundation for practice operations, communications, and financial analysis. Earlier this year (and w...

Australian researchers wanted to determine whether characteristics of blood vessels in the light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye - the retina - might become useful biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease. Shaun Frost, MSc, of CSIRO's Australian e-Health Research Center explained that studies ha...

The FDA has notified the public and the medical imaging community about the potential for inadvertent, increased radiation exposure in patients who underwent or will be undergoing cardiac PET scans with rubidium (Rb)-82 chloride injection from CardioGen-82 (Bracco Diagnostics). A CardioGen-82 PET...

With recently created medical imaging technology it is now possible to observe individual cells, including arterial and inflammatory cells.  This technology is a one-micrometer-resolution edition of the optical imaging technology (OCT), which can create an image with resolution improved to be 10 ti...

Researchers are reporting positive results with two new PET tracers being developed to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease. The tracers, flutemetamol and florbetapir, may enable earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer's by identifying beta-amyloid plaque in brain tissue, according to two studies published July...

Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) – a technique used in conjunction with cardiac medical imaging – is proving to be both a cost-saving and results-improving procedure, according to an article in Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology. FFR, which is used during a routine cardiac catheterizati...

Researchers at MIT have developed optical fibers that not only carry and modulate light, but also generate and sense pressure changes. These multifunctional fibers could be used to make various types of sensors. By integrating heat- and light-sensitive materials during the manufacturing process, ...

Agreement sets up transfer of facility to a public private collaboration The UK research community will soon have access to world-class medical imaging facilities in London with the signing of an agreement today between an alliance of leading London-based universities, the Medical Research Counc...

Sharing medical images in real time is M.I.S.S.I.L.E.’s main goal.  M.I.S.S.I.L.E. stands – in the Italian language - for “Sharing Medical Imaging (Information Sharing Leads to Efficiency)” and has been created by the Local Health Agency ASL VCO’s Radiology Department. The initiative aims...

Surgical metabonomics, the metabolic profiling of tissue samples, could transform the way surgeons make decisions in the operating theatre. Researchers at the Imperial College London (ICL; London, United Kingdom) Surgical Metabonomics Laboratory (SML) are using a high-resolution solid-state...

Researchers have found that clinical decision support systems can help reduce inappropriate medical imaging, including unnecessary computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The study’s findings were published in the January 2011 issue of the Journal of the Americ...