A High-Fat Diet Increases the Risk of Developing Cancer
Beckman Institute researchers have discovered a connection between a high-fat diet and elevated nitric oxide levels, which may raise the risk of inflammation and cancer…
Medical Imaging
Medical imaging is the process of imaging organs, tissues, and bones within the body to diagnose and treat disease. Breakthroughs in this field have led to earlier cancer diagnoses and assisted in the fight against COVID-19. Zoom in to new microscopes, techniques, and machines at SciTechDaily.com.
Bye, Bye, Biopsy? Handheld Device With New Imaging Tech To Painlessly Identify Skin Cancers
Team at Stevens Institute of Technology uses millimeter-wave imaging to slash the rate of unnecessary biopsies. Skin biopsies are unpleasant: doctors carve away small lumps…
New High-Speed 3D Microscope Could Make Biopsies a Thing of the Past
MediSCAPE, a high-speed 3D microscope designed by Columbia Engineers, can see real-time cellular detail in living tissues to guide surgery, speed up tissue analyses, and…
New Imaging Technique Could Lead to Better Treatment of Cancers and Viral Infections
UH Researchers Receive $1.2 Million Grant to Peer into Ribosomes Two University of Houston researchers are developing a type of spectroscopy to help understand how…
Making the Invisible Visible: A Clearer “Picture” of Blood Vessels in Health and Disease
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have developed and tested a new imaging approach they say will accelerate imaging-based research in the lab by allowing investigators to…
Safely Studying Dangerous Infections – Like COVID – Just Got a Lot Easier
An extremely fast new 3D imaging method can show how cells respond to infection and to possible treatments. To combat a pandemic, science needs to…
A Near-Real-Time View of the Drains Inside the Human Brain
A new non-invasive technique provides a near-real-time view of the human brain’s waste-clearance vessels. A joint research team at the Medical University of South Carolina…
Safer X-Rays: Improved Scintillators for More Sensitive X-Ray Imaging
Improvements in the material that converts X-rays into light, for medical or industrial images, could allow a tenfold signal enhancement. Scintillators are materials that emit…
Kernel Flow Headset: A Wearable Device for Noninvasive Optical Brain Imaging
A new wearable helmet-shaped device monitors brain activity. Recent advances in brain imaging techniques facilitate accurate, high-resolution observations of the brain and its functions. For…
FDA Approves New Imaging Drug to Help Identify Ovarian Cancer Lesions
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Cytalux (pafolacianine), an imaging drug intended to assist surgeons in identifying ovarian cancer lesions. The drug is…
New Imaging Method Visualizes Blood Flow in the Brain Down to a Single Blood Cell
Researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Saratov State University have come up with an inexpensive method for visualizing blood flow in…
New Chest Imaging Database Assists AI in the COVID-19 Fight
Published today in the Open-Access, Open-Data journal GigaScience is the National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID), a centralized database containing chest X-rays, Computed Tomography (CT)…
New “Image Analysis Pipeline” Gives Rapid Insight Into How Cells Are Changed by Disease
A new “image analysis pipeline” is giving scientists rapid new insight into how disease or injury have changed the body, down to the individual cell….
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…
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…
