Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
UCLA researchers have redefined the concept of a microscope by removing the lens to create a system that is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand but powerful enough to create three-dimensional tomographic images of miniscule samples. The advance, featured this week in the early online edition ...
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, completed the previously announced acquisition of LightLab Imaging, Inc. for approximately $90 million in cash. LightLab is the pioneer and leader in the development of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), a high resolution diagnostic coronary imaging technology which aids physicians ...
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Working with researchers from the University of Michigan and Indiana University, Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) investigators have developed a method that could be used to predict whether pancreatic cysts are benign or are precursors to invasive cancer. More pancreatic cysts are being detected due to the widespread use ...
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
Hybridyne Imaging Technologies, Inc., a developer of compact, high-resolution gamma cameras for the detection of cancer and other abnormalities in the body, announces FDA clearance of ProxiScanTM. The system can be used in imaging the distribution of radionuclides in the human body using planar imaging techniques. ProxiScanTM may also be ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have found that using high-resolution CT-scans to screen for lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM, is cost-effective in non-smoking women between 25 and 54 who come to the emergency room for the first time with a collapsed lung. The findings have been published online ahead of ...
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