Sentences with phrase «from medical imaging»

If all these many studies show that the risk from medical imaging with CT scans and similar high radiation technologies is real but acceptable, what are the chances that the risk from a few x-rays is massive and unacceptable and worthy of a rant - filled, conspiracy - filled book and web page?

Internationally, universities are experimenting different applications of nanotechnology from medical imaging and drug distribution to engineered fibers and adhesives.

The researchers created heart valve models from medical imaging of 18 patients who had undergone a valve replacement surgery.

All seem to suggest that a new study, released yesterday, has found that nanoscale materials, used in everything from medical imaging to cancer treatment, can damage genetic material in our bodies, feeding public fears.

«Heart imaging procedures account for almost 40 percent of the radiation exposure from medical imaging.»

But if the researchers can make the magnetic behavior stick around, the material could have uses ranging from medical imaging to exotic electronic circuitry.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The first large study to examine cumulative radiation exposure from medical imaging after a heart attack has found that the average patient receives the equivalent of about 725 chest X-rays before leaving the hospital.

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Puglia's portfolio also features a couple of promising smaller heavy - equipment makers: Florida - based Roper Technologies (rop), which specializes in industrial robots for power plants and also makes medical imaging robotics; and Washington State — based Fortive (ftv), which makes automation tech used in everything from Mars explorers to artificial hearts.

It has spread its wings into health, with its ownership of Can - med Healthcare, which supplies equipment nationally, ranging from wheelchairs to medical imaging technology.

In a 2012 study, [8] researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) measured before - and - after data from the brains of a group of nine high school football and hockey players using an advanced form of imaging similar to an MRI called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

The $ 35 million silicon carbide chip project is the centerpiece of the New York State Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium, a $ 500 million partnership between GE and SUNY Poly to develop next - generation power electronics chips used in everything from data centers and medical imaging to airplanes and solar power systems.

Nanotechnologies are expected to provide dramatic advances in fields ranging from building materials to medical imaging.

Now a team from Harvard Medical School, using electron cryomicroscopy (imaging frozen specimens to reduce damage from electron radiation), has for the first time revealed the structure of a VSV protein at the atomic level.

A recent study by investigators from LIJ Medical Center demonstrated that using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in men with an elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) resulted in a prostate cancer detection rate that was twice as high as data reported in the March 1999 Prostate journal that analyzed men undergoing the standard 12 - core biopsy with an elevated PSA.

«Games are a natural place to start understanding how collaborative rendering can work, but any graphics - intensive application could potentially benefit from Kahawai, from 3 - D medical imaging to computer - aided design software used by architects and engineers.»

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are increasingly common, which medical experts and researches have attributed to better diagnostic imaging, an aging population and heightened awareness of the disease stemming from the 2011 death of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs.

The past century's great advances in medical diagnosis and treatment — including kidney dialysis, artificial body parts such as lenses and joints, magnetic resonance imaging, and genetic testing — could have happened only with crucial contributions from physical scientists and engineers, who will also be needed for the next generation of health care miracles.

The researchers compared patient spending on unnecessary medical services, such as an MRI for lower back pain or imaging for an uncomplicated headache, before and after they switched from a traditional insurance plan to a consumer - directed health plan — a form of a high - deductible insurance.

The time resolution would ideally be improved from 0.5 frames per second (fps) to 30 fps for telecommunication, but many potential applications in medical and industrial imaging could use the lower rates already achieved, said Peyghambarian.

Medical devices range from the simple, such as Band - Aids, to the high - tech, such as imaging machines and the BRCA1 and BRCA2 molecular diagnostic tests for breast cancer (see sidebar).

A novel study in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), presents cases from Boston - area hospitals where victims were treated, examining the medical response and imaging technologies used to save lives and limbs.

A new brain imaging study from MIT and Harvard Medical School may lead to a screen that could identify children at high risk of developing depression later in life.

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For the new study, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pittsburgh used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an MRI technique that measures the integrity of white matter — the brain's signal - transmitting nerve fibers — to see if injuries to the nerves may be the root cause of these post-traumatic depression and anxiety symptoms.

Several years ago, researchers from the University of Twente joined forces with a number of companies to develop a prototype for a machine that would combine ultrasound and photoacoustics medical imaging techniques.

Reproduced with permission from The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging, 3rd edition, by Jerrold Bushberg et al. © Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012.

Researchers from Warwick Medical School and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust used a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based method to identify and confirm the presence of brown adipose tissue in a living adult.

New imaging tools borrowed from medical research and industrial engineering are beginning to liberate some of evolution's most closely held secrets.

These characteristics make iron - based superconductors promising for advanced energy applications, from electric vehicles to wind turbines and medical imaging devices.

In this project — «PROBE: PROton Beam Extension for Imaging and Therapy» project — a prototype will be built of a novel high - frequency linac that can boost the energy of protons from the 250 Mega-electron volts (MeV) available from conventional medical cyclotrons to 350 MeV, sufficient for imaging all paImaging and Therapy» project — a prototype will be built of a novel high - frequency linac that can boost the energy of protons from the 250 Mega-electron volts (MeV) available from conventional medical cyclotrons to 350 MeV, sufficient for imaging all paimaging all patients.

Magnetic resonance imaging appears to be safe for patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices, even for chest imaging, according to a new study by researchers from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City.

The increase in medical radiation exposure (from 0.53 mSv to 3.0 mSv) stemmed primarily from a rise in the use of computer tomography (CT) scans (which use x-rays to create cross sectional images of inside the body to spot tumors, clogged arteries, among other things), and nuclear imaging tests, which involve injecting radioactive chemicals into the bloodstream that can be picked up by special instruments and used to create images of the body's inner structures.

From the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (M.M.M., A.M.O.), the Impaired Consciousness Study Group, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge (M.R.C.), and the Division of Academic Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital (J.D.P.)-- all in Cambridge, United Kingdom; and the Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liege (A.V., M.B., S.L.), and the Departments of Neurology (S.L., M.B.) and Neuroradiology (L.T.), University Hospital of Liege, Liege; and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels (A.V., S.L., M.B.)-- all in Belgium.

TexRAD was originally a joint venture between the University of Sussex, Imaging Equipment Ltd, Cambridge Computed Imaging Ltd (CCI) and Miles Medical Pty Ltd, based on research by Professor Chris Chatwin, Dr Rupert Young and Dr Balaji Ganeshan from the Department of Engineering and Design at the University of Sussex and Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), and Professor Ken Miles (formerly BSMS).

You can Check: Amount of radiation that comes from X rays for medical imaging is very small and generally safe.

Fluorescent and luminescent materials, such as yttrium aluminum garnet doped with different metal ions (rare earths or transition metals), have found applicability in various fields, from optoelectronics (i.e.: lighting systems, LCDs, CRTs, lasers) to aerospace (i.e: thermal barriers) and biotechnological applications (i.e.: fluorescence marker, contrast agent in medical imaging, imaging screens, drug delivery etc).

«To our knowledge, this is the first study to apply machine learning to the task of distinguishing high - risk lesions that need surgery from those that don't,» says collaborator Constance Lehman, professor at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Breast Imaging Division at MGH's Department of Radiology.

He tried in particular to promote technology transfer activities from particle physics to medical imaging.

From the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health (L.G.S., E.I.M.), University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand; Department of Neurology (D.G.), University of Sydney, Australia; Department of Neurology (S.D.), Starship Children's Health, Auckland, New Zealand; Department of Neurology (C.J.), Children's Hospital Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Denver; Department of Neurology (C.D.V., M.A.K.), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children; Developmental Neurosciences (M.A.K.), UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (DDD Study Group), Hinxton, Cambridge, UK; Departments of Paediatrics and Radiology (S.M.), University of Melbourne; The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health (S.M., I.E.S.); Department of Medical Imaging (S.M.), Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Neurology (E.W., K.C.N.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Neurology (H.R.M.), Marshfield Clinic, WI; Division of Genetic Medicine (G.C., C.T.M., H.C.M.), Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle; and Departments of Medicine and Paediatrics (I.E.S.), University of Melbourne, Austin Health and Royal Children's Hospital, Australia.

This centre, seen as an environment of synergystic exchange between all the disciplines involved in medical imaging and industry is now an approved project, which received funding from the French central and regional government to build a 2700m2 infrastructure on the site of the university hospital La Timone in Marseilles.

The course is organized by the Microscopy Centre - Core Facility for Light Microscopy & Core Facility for Electron Microscopy, which are supported from the program for large research infrastructures of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports within the project «National Infrastructure for Biological and Medical Imaging (Czech - BioImaging — LM2015062) ``.

Elliot K. Fishman, M.D., professor of radiology and radiological science, won a record - breaking three awards in separate categories from Aunt Minnie, a comprehensive community Internet site for radiologists and related professionals in the medical - imaging industry.

The Cancer Imaging and Radiobiology Research Program continues to thrive as a multidisciplinary group of cancer researchers that includes faculty from The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, the Thayer School of Engineering, and the clinical departments of Medicine (Radiation Oncology), Surgery, and Radiology within Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC).

Next - generation medical imaging and genomic sequencing have all helped to reveal that some foods are neuroprotective, literally shielding the brain from harm and supporting cognitive fitness over the course of a lifetime.

Know the names of all the medicines you take (not just lupus medication) and bring copies of medical records from other physicians, including imaging test results.

The executive editor of this website and this FAQ holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Oregon Institute of Technology, one of the most respected schools of Health Technologies and Engineering in the Northwest, and is experienced in the fields of Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging Technology.

There are many other applications that require or would benefit from much better Absolute Color Accuracy, such as in sales and marketing presentations, and especially in medical imaging, where it can improve diagnostic accuracy for doctors, hospitals and patients.

Our goal is to accelerate the pace of discovery across all areas of research from life sciences, medical imaging, oil & gas, product design and beyond.

The Animal Neurology & Imaging Center's Phoenix area clinic, located within the Animal Medical & Surgical Center, provides the specialized care pets need when suffering from neurological disorders.