Medical Imaging
Starting Early: Massive Newborn Study Aims To Solve Long-Term Heart Disease Riddle
In addition to all the necessary well-baby visits and obstetrician follow-ups that come on top of the adjustment of having a new baby, Kathrine Garbers found time for yet another visit to Herlev Hospital, just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. Garbers and her baby girl, Frigga — not even two weeks old — were there to have the newborn’s heart scanned by Anne-Sophie Sillesen, a doctoral student.
Healthcare
The Vroom Vroom Room: This Mobile MRI Trailer Helps Patients On Finland’s Frozen Frontier
Northern lights and elk steak dinners aside, living in northern Finland is not for the faint of heart. As the region is bisected by the Arctic Circle, local thermometers frequently dip below zero — Fahrenheit, that is — during the winter months, when night reigns in the far north and daylight lasts no more than a few hours a day farther south. The place can also be quite solitary.
History
Playing Detective: How GE Imaging Technology Helped Crack 5 Ancient Mysteries
First impressions can be misleading. In 1895, when Wilhelm Roentgen trained his cathode ray at his wife’s hand and took what may have been the world’s first human X-ray, she cried out, “I have seen my death!” — or so the story goes.
Medical Imaging
Smart Thinking: How One Doctor’s Invention Helped Uncover His Own Heart Defect
The Vanguard
The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
If you can manage to ignore that small robotic cheetah nipping at your heels, this week’s coolest scientific discoveries represent a lot of happy news, including a highly promising advance in HIV treatment, a futuristic house that generates more electricity than it consumes, and a better way to detect tiny tumors. And — OK — the cheetah is pretty cool too.
Medical Imaging
Examining the Fetal Heart: This Software Is Helping Find Once-Hidden Features Of Congenital Heart Defects
Even for specialists, detecting and treating congenital heart defects is never easy. These defects are relatively rare and often give no warning signs. Diagnosing them during pregnancy is especially difficult. At 18 weeks, for example, you’re dealing with a developing organ that can be the size of an olive and beating between 120 and 160 times per minute.
The Vanguard
The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Do Space Travelers Suffer Brain Drain?
Medical Imaging
A Picture-Perfect Partnership: GE Imaging Technology Is Helping University of Wisconsin – Madison Improve Research, Save Lives
Medical Imaging
An Image Worth A Thousand Words: In Indonesia, A Hospital Uses Technology To Make Radiology Images Available Faster
The Vanguard
The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
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.