Healthcare
Thriving After Childhood Cancer: His Son Survived. Now This Engineer Is Working to Help Others.
Mark Frontera always felt that his work mattered. As a mechanical engineer and then a lab manager at GE Research in Niskayuna, New York, he studied how to improve X-ray technology that could one day help doctors diagnose patients sooner and treat them more effectively.
Medical Imaging
The Genuine Particle: These Cyclotrons Generate Imaging Tracers On-site to Boost Precision Medicine
Every morning, a charter jet takes off from Helsinki, Finland, bound for Örebro, Sweden. Its cargo: radiotracers. These radioactive compounds are essential for molecular imaging scans, which reveal metabolic processes inside cells. Radiologist and nuclear medicine physician Håkan Geijer and his colleagues at Örebro University Hospital depend on positron emission tomography (PET) scans to diagnose disease — like cancer — and, perhaps most critically, identify the best course of treatment.
Healthcare
Blueprint For The World: New GE Factory Embraces Diversity, Fuels Growth
When she was a little girl growing up in India, Dhanalakshmi Nagaraju wanted to know how things work. “I was always fascinated by cars and machines and by the science behind them,” she says. “I wanted to learn more.” Nagaraju went on to study engineering, and last year she landed a job as a manufacturing process engineer at a new Wipro GE factory making some of the latest medical imaging equipment. “It was a greenfield project, and there were a lot of things we had to learn quickly,” she says. “We had to build the plant, set up new production lines and hire and train workers.
Medical Imaging
Puppy Love: Spanish Vets Are Using Innovative MRI Techniques To Unravel The Mysteries Of Canine Epilepsy
Canine epilepsy might be a fairly common neurological affliction, affecting around 1 in every 25 dogs,[1] but its effects are distressing for both the pet and its owner. Until recently, the condition was also something of a mystery. Head trauma, brain tumors and cerebrovascular disease can all trigger seizures, as can idiopathic epilepsy, which is a genetic disorder.
Medical Imaging
A New Way Of Seeing: Building a Better Scanner
A team of researchers and engineers at Prismatic Sensors AB have developed a revolutionary new way to capture and analyze X-rays that promises to significantly boost the imaging power of computed tomography (CT) scanners.
Medical Imaging
A Passion Play: How Medical Imaging Helped Italian Conservators Resurrect A Long-Lost Painting Of Christ
“We need patients to be very still for imaging exams. It shouldn’t be a problem with this one,” radiologist Enzo Angeli joked last year as an unusual specimen was wheeled through the doors of his department. Angeli is head of diagnostics imaging at Humanitas Gavazzeni, a hospital in Bergamo, Italy, and his visitor exhibited a condition that, under normal circumstances, might raise a few red flags. Namely, the patient hadn’t moved in nearly 80 years.
Medical Imaging
Sharing Is Caring: Meet The Team Of Women Who Designed A More Comfortable Mammogram
When it comes to fighting breast cancer, mammograms are often considered the first line of defense.
However, many women avoid mammograms because of fear and anxiety from the potential result and exam discomfort1. The screening compliance rate has been shown to be lower in women who experienced pain during their mammogram compared to those who did not2.
Medical Imaging
All Aboard: In Singapore, A Mobile Mammography Service Aids Early Detection Of Breast Cancer
Medical Imaging
Road Show: The Art of Motorcycle Racer Maintenance
Motorcycle racing is one of the fastest sports on earth — and one of the most physically brutal. Racers straddle technologically advanced bikes that pack 250-horsepower engines and gun from zero to 200 miles per hour in less than 15 seconds. It makes for a thrilling blur of heart-pounding speed and ear-splitting noise on the track, but if something goes wrong, it can be disastrous.
