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1. Tiny telerobotic system to improve bladder cancer treatment

   ... Led by Nabil Simaan, PhD, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt, the team has developed a telerobotic system ... a fiberscope for observation and a forceps for gripping tissue. At just 5.5 millimeters in diameter, the system is designed to replace ...

   egodt - 2013-04-03 13:11

2. Imaging Partners with Robotics: Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

   ... Randall K. Wolf, MD, professor of surgery and biomedical engineering at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and director of UC's Center ... into that lumen, where you are basically under a piece of tissue that will not allow you to gain access back into that artery," says ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-03-29 11:00

3. At the Heart of Echocardiography

   ... Researchers at Duke University's Department of Biomedical Engineering are currently working on combining contrast agents with 3D imaging ... that will be more accurate than what we already have." Tissue Doppler imaging is a tried-and-true technique that has been around for ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-03-29 10:57

4. Top 10 Trends in Health Imaging and IT

   ... to exactly focus each beam on the tumor, sparing healthy tissue. While IGRT is a great leap forward, it does present some ... medicine. Molecular imaging will see a combination of engineering, imaging, informatics and biochemistry, enabling physicians to ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-03-29 10:38

5. Can We Afford NOT to Use FDG-PET?

   ... buildings that he knew to have been constructed to inferior engineering standards. Although no building had collapsed, the public were ... The surgery involved is often complex and may require major tissue reconstruction. No longer is surgery confined to those with local ...

   mrivera - 2013-03-06 12:37

6. Ultrasound brings new volume vision

   ... new feature called SonoElastography which is able to acquire tissue elasticity data through the use of freehand compression while a scan is ... broad-band, multi-frequency technology with an ergonomic engineering design. Philips Medical Systems showcased its iU22 ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-03-01 16:11

7. Radiation Oncology Image Management: Evolution in the Works

   ... may improve patient outcomes and minimize damage to normal tissue. The new vocabulary at radiation oncology sites across the country ... physics and professor of radiation oncology and biomedical engineering. The elusive RT system would handle traditional archiving ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-03-01 15:25

8. Redefining Open MRI

   ... in evaluating tumors that are surrounded by adipose tissue. Without fat suppression techniques, the mass appears the same as ... over the hip joint to be able to label tears in that tissue. The hip coil should facilitate those studies. Roger Y. Shifrin, MD, ... doing on an open system. Shifrin explains that the engineering innovations that have been added make him comfortable in using it ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-02-26 14:44

9. Radiation Safety & Testing in CT

   ... according to Hugh Morgan, PhD, research scientist in the CT engineering department at Philips. "Typically, our system will deliver about 40 ... the ability of the CT system to track different types of tissue. While this is not critical for image assessment in most diagnostic ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-02-19 14:22

10. fMRI: Out of the Lab and Into the Clinic

    ... do not exhibit symptoms. The department of biomedical engineering at Columbia installed a Philips Medical Systems Achieva 3.0 Tesla ... positive, they can determine how much blood flowed into the tissue. This provides similar information to those studies where contrast ...

    trimedstaff - 2013-02-19 10:43

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