Our Brains Have a “Fingerprint” Too – But It Constantly Changes in Time
“I think about it every day and dream about it at night. It’s been my whole life for five years now,” says Enrico Amico, a…
Medical Imaging
Modern Simulations Could Improve MRIs to More Efficiently Find Disease
Rice engineers find more efficient models to analyze contrast agents that find disease. Gadolinium-based contrast agents, the gold standard in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine the health…
New Infrared Imager Can Map Out a Person’s Blood Vessels Without Touching the Skin
Thin, Large-Area Device Converts Infrared Light Into Images Seeing through smog and fog. Mapping out a person’s blood vessels while monitoring heart rate at the…
Eye Tracking Virtual Reality Technology To Make MRI a New Experience
Researchers from King’s College London have created a novel interactive VR system to be used by patients when undertaking an MRI. In a new paper published in Scientific…
Neural “Vicious Cycle” in Fatty Liver Disease Revealed in New 3D Imaging
With the application of a novel three-dimensional imaging technology, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that one portion of the autonomic nervous system…
Microscopy Technique Makes High-Resolution Images of Deeper Tissue, More Quickly
Researchers could rapidly obtain high-resolution images of blood vessels and neurons within the brain. To create high-resolution, 3D images of tissues such as the brain,…
New Microscopy Technique Reaches Deeper Into the Living Brain
Imaging method poised to bring new insight into how the brain works in health and disease. Researchers have developed a new technique that allows microscopic…
Innovation Spins Spider Web Architecture Into 3D Biomedical Imaging Technology
Purdue University innovators are taking cues from nature to develop 3D photodetectors for biomedical imaging. The Purdue researchers used some architectural features from spider webs…
Timing the Life of Antimatter Particles – Less Than 1/50,000,000 Second – May Lead to Better Cancer Treatment
Japanese team aims to detect oxygen concentration in tumors using upgraded medical imaging scan. Experts in Japan have devised a simple way to glean more…
Highly Detailed Images of the Human Brain Using Revolutionary Seismic Imaging Technology
The Imperial College London and UCL researchers say their proof-of-concept study, published today (March 6, 2020) in npj Digital Medicine, paves the way for the…
First Laser Ultrasound Images of Humans Produced Without Skin Contact
Technique may help remotely image and assess health of infants, burn victims, and accident survivors in hard-to-reach places. For most people, getting an ultrasound is…
Model Quickly Generates Brain Scan Templates for Medical-Image Analysis
Producing better guides for medical-image analysis: Model quickly generates brain scan templates that represent a given patient population. MIT researchers have devised a method that…
From Tiny Cells to Solving the Mysteries of Missing Massive Galaxies
From Cells To Galaxies And Beyond: Scientists in radio astronomy and medical imaging find common ground. “We are star stuff,” famous astronomer Carl Sagan once…
Artificial Intelligence Improves Biomedical Imaging
ETH researchers use artificial intelligence to improve quality of images recorded by a relatively new biomedical imaging method. This paves the way towards more accurate…
Artificial Intelligence Dramatically Improves Medical Imaging Quality
A radiologist’s ability to make accurate diagnoses from high-quality diagnostic imaging studies directly impacts patient outcome. However, acquiring sufficient data to generate the best quality…
Gamma Ray Lens Created Using Amplifying Effect of Virtual Electron-Positron Pairs
It was previously thought that making a lens out of highly energetic light, gamma rays, was impossible. Physicists have created such a lens and think…