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What’s Inside A Jet Engine? These Scientists Are On A Search-And-Don’t-Destroy Mission To Find Out

Todd Alhart
March 01, 2016
Dr. Waseem Faidi’s research playground looks an awful lot like a high-tech hospital room. There’s the large white doughnut of a computed tomography scanner and a medical bed surrounded by digital dials and other instruments seemingly ready to pronounce on biological data.
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These Machines Helped Unveil Secrets Of The Human Body

Tomas Kellner
January 26, 2016
Thomas Edison’s light bulb patent was 15 years old when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays and proved their power by imaging the bones inside his wife's hand. "I've seen my death," she reportedly said after seeing the picture. But GE co-founder Elihu Thomson had longevity in mind. A year after Roentgen's discovery, he modified Edison's light bulb to emit X-rays and used it to build the first X-ray machine.
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New Production Process Could Help Break Imaging Isotope Shortage

Erin Bryant
December 21, 2015
As aging nuclear reactors require increased maintenance, and even shut down completely, the strain on their production is being felt far beyond the energy industry: inside oncology and cardiac clinics. But help is on the way.
Every year, doctors order as many as 40 million medical imaging scans that require a radioactive isotope called technetium-99m (Tc-99m). The scans help them diagnose cancer, heart disease and other serious maladies.
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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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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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Here’s Looking at You, Kid: Get to Know Your Baby Before It's Born With 4D Ultrasound

September 16, 2014
There were people who thought that Italian priest and scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani had bats in the belfry. But he had bats on his mind.
Working in the late 1700s, Spallanzani showed that blindfolded bats could still catch flies and find their way around. But they failed miserably when he sealed up their ears. His discovery of the bat’s “sixth sense,” called echolocation, launched the science of ultrasound.

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