The study, conducted by researchers at Imperial College London, was carried out to understand in more detail the link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The latter is a form of dementia and causes a long-term build-up of proteins called tau, associated with the degeneration of brain tissue and declining health. TBI occurs ...
The tablet-based workflow concept facilitates more comprehensive patient care and allows radiology providers to use a cost-efficient single-room concept for the first time. With products and solutions such as the SOMATOM go. CT platform, as well as a new name that underlines the company’s pioneering spirit and engineering expertise, Siemens Healthineers — the separately ...
Their findings are running in the May edition of Acta Radiologica. Lead author Roxanna Hellgren, MD, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and colleagues reviewed the cases of 113 women who had suspicious findings at screening and were sent for both handheld breast ultrasound and automated breast volume scanning (ABVS). Five of the women had suspicious lesions in both b...
Modern day medical applications have a wide spectrum of needs from the demanding computing requirements of optical imaging technologies to the compact form factor and low power consumption necessary for mobile diagnostic equipment. Since medical applications also deal with human life, the equipment deployed also requires the highest safety and reliability standards. Thi...
Typically, researchers must either surgically take a sample of the animal’s brain to examine the cells under a microscope or use an endoscope, which can be 10 to 100 times thicker than a needle. With the new “computational-cannula microscopy” process, the small (220 micrometers) width of the cannula allows for minimally invasive imaging, while the long length (>2 mm*)...
Working with a German medical device manufacturer, Elmar Laistler, PhD, and colleagues at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria designed radiofrequency coil was for optimized signal homogeneity and sensitivity in the finger at 7T. The team adapted imaging sequences using 3D MP-RAGE (magnetization-prepared rapid acquisition gradient echo) for high spatial resolut...
Knowledge center Breast Cancer Women's Health / Gynecology Cancer / Oncology Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Mammography vs. thermography: Comparing the benefits Written by Goretti CowleyReviewed by Suzanne Falck, MD, FACP Last reviewed: Wed 29 March 2017 email 4.5 73SHARE Breast cancer screening is used to identify breast cancer in women who have no physica...
Breast cancer can spread when cancer cells do one of the following: invade nearby healthy cells and replicate travel throughout the body in the bloodstream lodge in capillaries and move into nearby tissue form new tumors in other places around the body Contents of this article: Symptoms Treatment How is it monitored? Outlook Symptoms Symptoms of metastatic...
The study, published in the Journal of Oncology Practice, identified women with clinically node-negative, T1-T2 invasive breast cancers treated with lumpectomy during 2011. These patients were defined as the study cohort due to the availability of both NCDB and Medicare cost data within a single calendar year. Of the 43,247 patients, 64% received conventional RT, 13.3...
A group of researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health found patients who underwent endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) had longer times-to-surgery than those who didn’t. Led by resident Ryan Schmocker, MD, the team linked certain geographical areas and institutional factors to a higher likelihood of undergoing EUS, in addition to a baseline...
In the study published in Scientific Reports, researchers evaluated 16 children with OSA and nine healthy children who did not have apnea. They were assessed overnight in the pediatric sleep laboratory. The participants underwent neuro-cognitive testing and non-invasive MRI. Researchers also compared the children with OSA to 191 MRI scans of children who were part of an ...
The hope is that the approach could one day be used to bypass damaged areas of the brain and relay signals in people with traumatic brain injury, stroke, or epilepsy. “What we observed is that people performed better when the two waves had the same rhythm and at the same time,” said Ines Ribeiro Violante, PhD, a neuroscientist in the Department of Medicine at Imperial...
Echolight SpA, an innovative med-tech company developing the first radiation-free bone densitometer for the early diagnosis of osteoporosis, is pleased to announce the signing of a new partnership with the German company i²medi GmbH for the introduction and the promotion of its products in Brazil and Mexico. i²medi GmbH, through its local subsidiaries, will manage regula...
Clarius Eclipse incorporates enhanced capabilities for annotations, automated heart-rate monitoring during cardiac scanning, and easy bladder volume measurement. The new software makes it possible to simultaneously share an imaging screen with multiple devices by simply scanning a QR code, which is ideal for educational settings. It also offers a low power mode to exte...
In the most simplistic definition, middleware is software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, especially on a network. For example, if a bedside monitor is designed to deliver waveforms to a smartphone, middleware is what helps the devices speak the same language. The challenge is that there is no single messaging middleware ...
Berlin, May 31, 2017. Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG (ISIN DE0005659700), a Berlin-based company specializing in isotope technology for medical, scientific and industrial applications today signed an agreement to acquire its competitor Gamma-Service. Gamma-Service, a specialist in the manufacture of isotope technology products for medicine and industry,...
To sum up, U-Lite perfectly matches with SOS Médecins’ needs. In the long term, all SOS Médecins’ physicians will be trained to perform ultrasound imaging at the bedside of patients.
The Omnitest plus system provides a quick and easy way to measure the blood glucose level. Omnitest plus could be used for self-monitoring of blood glucose level by diabetes patients. Description Omnitest plus blood glucose monitor Pouch Battery 10 Omnitest® plus test strips Omnilance lancing device 10 Omnican® Lance soft lancets Check strip Short instructio...
Common applications include desorption studies of silicon wafers and thin-film coatings, quantification of hydrogen evolution from metals. The sample stage, with temperature ramp fully programmable at rates to 40 C per min, is shrouded by a heat shield incorporating water-cooling to minimize outgassing and between-sample cool down rate. Fast sample loading and extraction...
