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Working Magic: FDA Clears New Speedy MRI Scanning Technique

Kristin Kloberdanz
October 02, 2016
It takes about half an hour to have your brain scanned inside a magnetic resonance machine (MRI). Many people relax and tune out as they slide inside the snug scanning tunnel for the painless procedure. But for some people, claustrophobia can set in. Children and the elderly especially can perceive the 30 minutes as an eternity.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 24, 2016
It’s been an exciting week for brains and biology. Scientists in Oregon have used a combination of software and brain imaging to read the human mind, their colleagues in England developed a “bio-ink” that can be used to 3-D print living tissue, and a neuroscientist in Canada found a way to evoke and erase memories. Welcome to a brave new world. Read on!
 

 

Scientists Build A Mind-Reading Machine
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Brain Surgery

Laser Vision: How GE Engineer Helped Boston Brain Surgeon Zap Cancer With A Laser Beam

Tomas Kellner
April 11, 2016
The late Harvard radiologist Ferenc Jolesz spent much of his career looking for creative ways to kill brain cancer at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In the early 1990s, he found a promising new weapon. He decided to send a laser beam along an optical fiber threaded in the patient’s brain through a small hole in the skull. The fiber would carry the laser’s powerful light, terminate precisely at the tumor and destroy it with its intense heat.
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Boston

How GE’s Move To Boston Is Really A Homecoming

Tomas Kellner
April 04, 2016
GE said in January that it will relocate its headquarters from Connecticut to Boston. The company had a significant presence in the city even before the move — GE businesses ranging from Aviation and Current to Digital and Healthcare employ almost 5,000 people in the city and surrounding area. But GE’s Boston roots go to the very beginning of the company. Our video and also our photo essay tell that story.
 

 
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Medical Imaging

This MRI Imaging Technique Helped Clinicians Unmask Silent Liver Disease

Tomas Kellner
March 24, 2016
Nobody wants to be told they are going to die. Yet that’s the prognosis Wayne Eskridge received from his doctors in 2010. The diagnosis was a stage-four case of cirrhosis of the liver. As he and his family despaired over the future, he received another medical opinion, saying this time that he was fine with no liver disease. He was counting his blessings, but later the emotional rollercoaster took another dive when the diagnosis reversed once more.
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Medical Imaging

See the Heart in 7 Dimensions: This Team of Researchers Attacks World’s Biggest Killer with Software

Drew Field
December 03, 2015
By the time you’re done reading this story, heart disease will have killed nearly 40 people in Europe. The picture elsewhere isn’t much different. The World Health Organization reported earlier this year that more people die from cardiovascular disease than from any other cause.
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Breakthrough

Heady Times: This Scientist Took the First Brain Selfie and Helped Revolutionize Medical Imaging

November 18, 2015
Early one October morning 30 years ago, GE scientist John Schenck was lying on a makeshift platform inside a GE lab in upstate New York. The itself lab was put together with special non-magnetic nails because surrounding his body was a large magnet, 30,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field. Standing at his side were a handful of colleagues and a nurse. They were there to peer inside Schenck’s head and take the first magnetic resonance scan (MRI) of the brain.
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Medical Imaging

Beautiful on the Inside: These Machines Reveal the Secrets of the Body

October 05, 2015
If a good picture is worth a thousand words, then these images are visual equivalent of War and Peace. GE imaging technology - from MRI machines to high-resolution microscopes - offers incredibly detailed snapshots of the body all the way down to the cellular level.
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Perspectives

Scaling Super-conductivity — Q&A with T.J. Wainerdi

T J Wainerdi University Of Houston
December 09, 2014
Superconductors have been around for decades now — think the Large Hadron Collider, or an MRI. Yet while most superconducting wiring and other material requires extremely cold conditions (around -450 °F) to enable electrical current to flow indefinitely without resistance, the recent development of high-temperature superconductors has opened up the technology to a much broader range of applications.
 
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Perspectives

Tackling Brain Injuries — Q&A with the NFL’s Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller Nfl
November 20, 2014
Preventing brain injury is a team sport. That’s why the NFL has teamed up with GE and Under Armour to promote some of the most innovative thinking on protecting against and diagnosing concussions.
 
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