Medical Imaging News

Rush Researchers Explore Use of Nanotechnology as Diagnostic and
WebWire – One goal of the research is to develop novel medical imaging and a drug delivery vehicle that will drive state-of-the-art screening, treatment and prevention of women s disease to a new level. Related Links Rush University Medical Center www.rush.edu

Who’s who in optical sciences at the UA
Arizona Daily Star – His area of expertise is medical imaging, things related to CT scans, MRIs and other forms of gathering images of the insides of humans and animals. Specifically, Kupinski is concerned with image quality. One of the things he and his team do is try

Researchers seek to solve mystery of natural HIV control
WebWire – program in the United States, with an annual research budget of nearly $500 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging

Computer Visualization Puts Cars Back on Buffalo’s Main Street
University at Buffalo Reporter – CCR’s capability in visualizations for urban-planning applications developed out of its efforts in high-end and scientific visualization, for applications such as medical imaging and data-intensive visualization, some of which required supercomputers

Capps concerned about privacy of electronic health records
San Luis Obispo Tribune – For these patients, doctors in Texas, Arkansas and other states that took in Katrina refugees could call up medical charts, prescriptions, lab results even videos of medical imaging tests. Congress is trying to bring the benefits of computerized

Ranchers donate to hospital project (Billings Gazette)
CAMERON – The Sun West Ranch, a “shared ranch” development near here, has pledged at least 500,000 to an effort to build a new hospital in Madison County.
Health Watch: CT Scan Could Replace CAT Scan – CBS4Boston

The Head-To-Toe High-Tech Checkup
Local 6 – Using a series of sophisticated imaging scans including a battery of ultrasounds, a full-body computed tomography scan (also known as a CT scan) and a magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, check of the brain Dr. Daniel Cosgrove at the La Quinta …
Girl, 12, dies at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon (Amusement Business)
A 12-year-old girl died Thursday evening after passing out at the wave pool at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon near Orlando. It was the third time in three months that a youth has suddenly and mysteriously fallen critically ill while visiting Walt Disney World.
Detecting Blockages in Coronary Arteries with Cardiac CT Scan – Kansas City infoZine

Sanjay never visited doc till 2 months ago
Times of India – He has undergone preliminary tests and a special CT scan, all of which suggest that in terms of vasculature and functionality both his organs are complete. He now needs to undergo a surgery to rectify the problem. The completeness of both the …

Lower-Dose Verteporfin Effective for Serous Chorioretinopathy
Medscape News – This was followed by angiography and laser application 2 minutes thereafter. At 1 month, the median best corrected visual acuity significantly improved from 20/40 to 20/30. Mean central retinal thickness was also significantly reduced from 276

Definition of Central Serous Retinopathy
HealthScout – The diagnosis is confirmed by fluorescein angiography . Typically the fluorescein enters into the blister and stains its contents, identifying one or more leakage points. Treatment of Central Serous Retinopathy Although no medication has thus far proved

Local Business News
Corsicana Daily Sun – Crouch and Alwan will offer services including echocardiography, diagnostic cardiac catheterization, stress testing, Holter monitoring, coronary CT angiography and nuclear cardiology. We are pleased to welcome Drs. Crouch and Alwan to the Clinic

Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD)
WSOC-TV – If a heart problem is suspected, doctors may order a number of tests, like an EKG, exercise stress testing, Holter monitoring, heart MRI, angiography or biopsy of the heart muscle. Unfortunately, many people with ARVD don’t have any symptoms. In fact

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Medscape News – One reason for the misperception that women have “safer” CAD is the fact that more women than men have normal angiography results with chest pain. For typical angina symptoms, up to 90% of men have evidence of CAD on angiography compared with fewer