A research partnership between Siemens, Siemens Healthineers, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has proven medical centers can achieve significant carbon reduction and cost savings by turning off or putting MRIs into the lowest power setting when not in use. The findings, ... Read More
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Should patients over the age of 70 with head and neck cancer receive aggressive combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy? This is a controversial issue among patients, their families and health professionals. A large-scale international study involving Leipzig University Hospital proves the effectiven... Read More
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Interview with Dr. Robert Zboray, Group Leader X-Ray imaging, Center for X-Ray Analytics, Empa 23.08.2022 Every minute counts when someone is having an acute stroke. If the cause is a vascular blockage caused by a blood clot (thrombus) in the brain, detailed insights into the thrombus composition is ... Read More
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Ultrafast MRI provides beneficial information that can be used in surgical planning, including determining the need to perform sentinel lymph node biopsy. This is according to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR). “Preoperative UF-MRI, time to enhancement... Read More
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Professor Mark McEntee Image source: University College Cork ‘There are a lot of papers on AI, but not in the area of radiation protection and AI,’ he told delegates in Valencia, Spain. ‘AI in radiation protection is in its infancy, but it could be a game changer.’ The expert identified three ... Read More
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Wireless ultrasound diagnosis has the characteristics of safety, non-destructive, intuitive and simple, and is the preferred detection method for the diagnosis of routine items. In recent years, the medical community for more portable handheld ultrasound equipment demand is more and more urgent. The ... Read More
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With the development of electronic integration technology, the volume of the ultrasonic diagnostic equipment is more and more concentrated, this paper introduces a new ultrasound probe type, the product the host to concentrate a small circuit board and embedded Yu Chaosheng probe, implements the ... Read More
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Dr Rhian M. Touyz © McGill University Health Centre A major challenge in blood pressure measurement is achieving accurate and reproducible results, while finding practical solutions for the clinical setting at the same time. ‘One can’t emphasize enough the importance of accurate blood pressure ... Read More
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Associate professor Hong Chen Image source: Washington University in St. Louis Chen’s lab has used FUSIN for several years, finding promising results in a brain tumor model in 2021 and delivering gold nanoparticles in 2018. The delivery method uses the nasal route for direct nose-to-brain drug ... Read More
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Jana de Boniface Image source: Karolinska Institutet; photo: Peter Knutson Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is increasingly used in breast cancer. The best proof of NACT efficacy is pathological complete response (pCR), i.e. the absence of invasive tumour on post-NACT on surgical histopathology. ... Read More
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