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Medical Imaging

An Image Worth A Thousand Words: In Indonesia, A Hospital Uses Technology To Make Radiology Images Available Faster

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 11, 2018
Indonesia is in the middle of an economic boom. Last year GDP rose 5.1 percent, the country’s highest growth rate in four years. That expansion has helped Indonesia’s government launch a universal health care program, among other initiatives. As of 2017, three years into the program, 70 percent of the population — roughly 181 million people — had signed up for some level of government-sponsored healthcare.
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Slam Dunk: A New MRI Scanner Helps Offer Hope For Injured Basketball Players, Cancer Patients

P D Olson
September 04, 2018
Edwin Oei has seen a lot of knees. The musculoskeletal radiologist at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands says around half of all scans at Dutch community hospitals focus on the hardworking joint, usually because of sporting accidents. The wrong kind of twist at a soccer game can tear the sliver of cartilage that acts as a cushion between the thighbone and shinbone, known as the meniscus.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
July 13, 2018
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Artificial intelligence is figuring out how to see through walls, predict human IQ, and clean up grainy pictures — with the help and input, of course, of some extremely savvy researchers. In this week’s coolest things, AI is advancing by leaps and bounds.

 

 

Berkeley Scientists Try On A New Pair Of Genes

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 06, 2018
"A robot in Singapore assembled an IKEA chair, new MRI sensors can peer deep inside the brain, and noise-canceling tech for windows can cut street noise by half. A nice try, but this week’s science will keep people talking.
 

 

DYI Robot



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Valentine's Day

Don't You Want Me, Baby? This Brain Imaging Contest Can Show You the Love

Tomas Kellner
February 14, 2018
How deep is your love? Neuroscientist Melina Uncapher devised a system in her lab that can supply an answer.
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Can MRI be for psychiatry what the angiogram is for cardiology?

Jane Nicholls
August 28, 2017
Intricate images of our innards from MR machines have been amazing us for decades. Get set to be wonderstruck once more: specialised magnetic-resonance imaging is creating detail so fine that the function of fibres of the white matter of brains can be studied, a breakthrough that scientists hope will help revolutionise psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.
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Doctor, switch off the scanner and pass the popcorn

June 15, 2017
The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Health Sciences is pioneering a fresh take in online professional-development courses.
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Super scanner accelerates research in Geelong

June 01, 2017
To better understand the heads, shoulders, knees and musculoskeletal woes of patients in the Geelong and greater referring region, Epworth Medical Imaging early this year took part in a pilot program that would clinically validate a breakthrough magnetic-resonance (MR) imaging scanner.
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future of medicine

Digital Medicine: How Can AI Help You?

Albert Hsiao M D Ph D
February 17, 2017

Before Albert Hsiao became a radiologist, he didn’t know performing electrical measurements in the cerebellum of rats or learning about neural networks in college would be relevant to caring for patients today. This year, the start-up he helped co-found received FDA-approval for its first Deep Learning product in the cardiac imaging space. Not only can technology like this help tackle the looming doctor shortage, it provides "some hope for us to return to our roots as medical doctors" and "to be better listeners," Hsiao writes.

 
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medicine

No Laughing Matter: The World Is Running Out Of Helium, But It Won’t Hold These MRI Engineers Down

Dorothy Pomerantz
Tomas Kellner
November 29, 2016
AS: The first computers I built were data-acquisition systems. Their job was to monitor defects. They were a wire-programmed system, which means that they were uniquely designed to do just that job. Another computer called GE-312 monitored a turbine for Southern California Edison. We didn’t dare to control it because that required stops and starts, which could have endangered the machine’s life. The function then was just to make sure that it stayed within specified temperature ranges and that all the contacts were opened or closed as prescribed.
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