Cocaine abuse is a significant public health problem around the world. In the European Union alone, prevalence of cocaine consumption was estimated to be around 3.4 million among people ages 15 to 64 years in 2017, and there is evidence that consumption is increasing across every socioeconomic class. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that in 2014 there ...
Typically, microfluidic systems consist of scaled-down versions of conventional tubes, pumps, and valves. While effective for many applications, conventional components often get quickly clogged and lose their function when working with complex biological fluids such as blood. This is because blood, and other bodily fluids, contain a variety of components, such as protei...
We met with Navin Natoewal, the Head of Integrated Technology Solutions at Philips, to learn more about EmoGraphy, its applications, the potential benefits, and how the technology will find its way into real products. Ben Ouyang, Medgadget: Tell us about Philips Integrated Technology Solutions. Navin Natoewal: The role here is to take innovations that are available...
“Radiologists and our teams have grave concerns about the long-term effects from radiation exposure,” says John A Carrino, vice chairman of Radiology, Hospital for Special Surgery (New York, USA). “I am excited that new technology for mobile C-arms is now available because it has the potential to drastically improve our radiation safety while maintaining image quality so...
to deploy a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) to electronically capture, view, store and distribute medical imagery (X-ray, MRI, CT and ultrasound) digitally rather than using the old film system. This system will allow clinicians to manage, store and share diagnostic imaging data across all of Andalucia’s 1,600 healthcare facilities. Any user in any ...
The technology involves placing a wireless SmartClip implantable marker within the breast that identifies the location of the tissue to be removed. Normally guidewires are used to locate the target tissue, which extend out through the skin. The SmartClip marker remains completely implanted until the lumpectomy. It’s actually possible to use multiple SmartClips to target ...
Two years in discussion and the hype around artificial intelligence (AI) is far from fading. Interest has never been higher, and the number of people exploring machine learning (ML) is at its peak. Media bombing, notably on advances in computer vision using deep learning in machine v. human imaging challenges, have fed the beast. ‘We’ve read a lot of articles on the topi...
The vast majority of cancer deaths occur due to the spread of cancer from one organ to another, which can happen either through the blood or the lymphatic system. However, it can be tricky to detect this early enough. Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new method that would allow doctors to detect cancers in the lymph nodes while they are still small, b...
"This prediction could help identify children at risk for poor cognitive development shortly after birth with high accuracy," said senior author John H. Gilmore, MD, Thad and Alice Eure Distinguished Professor of psychiatry and director of the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health. "For these children, an early intervention in the first year or so of life ...
Preelcampsia is a hypertensive disorder that accounts for 14 percent of global maternal deaths annually and affects 5 to 8 percent of all pregnancies. Symptoms may include high blood pressure (find out more about blood pressure monitoring equipment at MEDICA 2018 here) and protein in the urine and typically occurs after the 20th week of pregnancy. The study, published...
Esaote announced the introduction of the MyLab™X8 - the high-performance and versatile ultrasound platform to support hospitals and clinics facing today’s challenges - at the European Congress of Radiology, ECR 2019, held from February 27 to March 3 in Vienna (Austria). Based on the recently introduced ULTRA™ technology platform, the product profile includes a limitle...
Vü is no ordinary gel documentation system however. The Pop-Bio Imaging system uses no cameras, no lenses, filters, or lasers but instead utilises a new technology to accurately map images at ultra-high sensitivity and resolution. The result is a small desk top instrument with a very small footprint that can handle the full range of gel and blot applications – UV, blue l...
Their goal? To create an “augmented worker” or “doctor” who can focus on the most interesting and valuable tasks while the machine handles the easiest cases where a high level of expertise is not required. The idea is to create a system that enables the semi-automation of repetitive and visual tasks with a human ultimately remaining at the helm of the project. We spoke w...
While the cost and accessibility of ultrasound is dropping rapidly, the number of people qualified to use this equipment is not keeping up. A team at General Electric is now working on utilizing augmented reality, produced by Microsoft HoloLens, to teach sonography students how to locate and properly scan different organs. The student wears the HoloLens, which project...
DCI is a “dreaded” secondary complication that arises after aneurysmal SAH, wrote J. Joep van der Harst, MD, of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and colleagues. CTA and TCD are both commonly used screening tools in these patients, but the optimal screening modality is still a matter of debate. In the study, van der Harst et al. included 59 patients with a...
Philips announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the DigitalDiagnost C90, its newest premium digital radiography (DR) system. Designed to increase patient throughput and decrease the time to diagnosis, the Philips DigitalDiagnost C90 offers healthcare organizations a flexible and customizable imaging solution t...
In a just-published Journal of Biomechanics article1, the researchers proved a longtime assumption about individuals' right and left wrists, while also finding differences between wrists of males and females. These discoveries could help inform and guide future treatments. "If someone has dysfunction of the wrist, it really impacts their quality of life," said UC Davi...
University of Minnesota Health (M Health) is the first in the United States to begin offering GammaTile Therapy, a new approach to treating recurrent brain tumors. GammaTile Therapy is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared, surgically targeted radiation therapy (STaRT) manufactured by GT Medical Technologies that is designed to delay tumor regrowth for patien...
PaxeraHealth will launch the PaxeraShare image sharing platform at the 2019 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) annual meeting, Feb. 27-March 3 in Vienna, Austria. PaxeraShare is a modern approach to image sharing and data access. The platform is designed using the latest HTML5 technology that requires no software installation. It enables recipients, whether they ar...
Philips announced the launch of IntelliSpace Cardiovascular 4.1, its next-generation cardiovascular image and information management system. The latest version builds on the existing pediatric reporting capabilities, recognizing the important and unique nature of the pediatric environment. Clinicians can now complete their workflows more efficiently in a web browser, whi...
The X-ray was taken when a 3-year-old girl was brought to the emergency room after she ingested the gold-colored pendant, according to a new report of the case, published today (Feb. 13) in The New England Journal of Medicine and appropriately titled "Heart of Gold." The image confirmed there was a "heart-shaped foreign body" in the child's esophagus, the report said....
Data from the UNCOVER-AF trial reinforces the effectiveness of Acutus Medical’s AcQMap Imaging System in persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation procedures. The Carlsbad, CA-based company released the data in late January at the 24th annual AF Symposium in Boston. AcQMap is a technology that combines charge mapping and high-resolution ultrasound imaging to create...
To try to stem the increasing incidences of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), hospitals are stepping up their disinfecting protocols on medical devices. But these more-stringent practices that may use either stronger chemicals, or the more frequent use of them, or maybe both, could have harmful effects on some plastic devices, causing them to break, crack, or degr...
“We try to get our patients in and out of X-ray as quick as possible so that doctors can make their plans to take care of them,” said Shelby Morris, TOC’s radiology supervisor. Underscoring the importance of fast and effective outpatient imaging is a trend toward imaging in outpatient clinics. The Advisory Board reported in an executive research briefing December 12, ...
Developed by researchers at King’s College London (KCL; United Kingdom), the University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom), and other institutions, the AI system was developed using 470,388 fully anonymized institutional adult chest radiographs acquired from 2007 to 2017. The accompanying radiology reports were pre-processed using an in-house natural language processi...
Despite each gender’s brain achieving the same chronological age, men’s brains start adulthood about three years older than women’s, meaning their brains do not age faster, but are metabolically older than women’s, senior author Manu Goyal, MD, assistant professor of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, explained in a prepared statement. ...
Hospitalized women with ischemic stroke are less likely than men to be evaluated by stroke specialists and receive specialized imaging scans and other diagnostic testing in hospitals, according to research being presenting at this year's American Stroke Association International Stroke Conference in Honolulu, as detailed in an American Heart Association press release. ...
Individuals in their 20s and 30s with above normal blood pressure—over 120/80 millimeters of mercury (mmHg)—showed loss of gray matter volume in certain areas of the brain responsible for memory, emotions, and language, among other functions. The findings could help streamline how and when above normal levels of blood pressure in young adults should be monitored and mana...
“Vascular calcification is a common pathological feature of many diseases such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease, and one of the important reasons for the high morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases,” wrote first author Yuhuan Chen, MD with Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine in Xianyang, Shaanxi, China, and colle...
The technology can capture three-dimensional (3D) images of the entire human body at one bed position and requires 40-times less radiation than current methods, according to a recent company press release. United Imaging made its U.S. market debut in November at RSNA 2018 in Chicago, where Simon Cherry, PhD and Ramsey Badawi, PhD, of UC Davis, presented a prototype ...
A novel technique that uses mammography to determine the biological tissue composition of a tumor could help reduce unnecessary breast biopsies, according to a new study appearing in the journal Radiology.1 Mammography has been effective at reducing deaths from breast cancer by detecting cancers in their earliest, most treatable stages. However, many women are called ...
Siemens Healthineers presented its first intelligent software assistant for radiology, the AI-Rad Companion Chest CT, at the 2018 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting, Nov. 25-30 in Chicago. The software brings artificial intelligence (AI) to computed tomography (CT). Using CT images of the chest, it can differentiate between various structures in ...
The future of robotic-assisted surgery emerges ever closer with the news of Corindus Vascular Robotics's new CorPath GRX System being successfully used to enable robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) at the recent Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2018 (TCT) conference. The technology was used to perform the first live transmission of a hybri...
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology improves the ability of brain imaging to predict Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published in the journal Radiology.1 Timely diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is extremely important, as treatments and interventions are more effective early in the course of the disease. However, early diagnosis has proven to be challeng...
You arrive at a senior apartment complex and take the elevator to the third floor. You knock on the door, and the patient’s husband greets you with a worried look. “My wife isn’t well,” he says. Your patient is a female in her 60s who is sitting upright but slumped over in a recliner. She is pale, diaphoretic, and responds only to deep pain. Recognizing how quickly...
As the pace of discovery continues to increase, researchers continue to look for tools such as the ImageXpress Pico system that help them to automate manual processes. “Significant savings in time over manual microscopy are possible through automating both acquisition steps and post processing of images to deliver data,” said Jeff McMillan, Senior Imaging Product Manager...
