News articles tagged with 'ultrasound'
Highly precise nanostructuring using ultrasound: New procedure to produce porous metals
— 4 Mar 2011 15:00 | TechnologyThey are corrosion resistant, mechanically strong and withstand exceedingly high temperatures. With such characteristics, porous metals are generating a growing interest in numerous…
Student innovation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could lead to better breast cancer screening
— 4 Mar 2011 14:23 | HealthRecent research by doctoral student Sevan Goenezen holds the promise of becoming a powerful new weapon in the fight against breast cancer. His complex computational research has led…
Bedside ultrasound becomes a reality
— 24 Feb 2011 19:23 | HealthClinicians have often referred to ultrasound technology as the 'stethoscope of the future,' predicting that as the equipment shrinks in size, it will one day be as common at the bedside…
Ultrasound fusion imaging provides comparable accuracy for bone, soft tissue tumours
— 17 Feb 2011 17:27 | HealthBiopsies using ultrasound fusion imaging for detecting bone and soft tissue cancers are safe, effective and just as accurate as conventional biopsy methods, according to a Henry Ford…
Experts urge even greater caution in use of X-rays during pregnancy and infancy
— 11 Feb 2011 16:18 | HealthClinicians should be careful about using x-rays on pregnant women and infants because of the potential for a slight increase in the risk of children developing cancer, concludes a new…
Microbubble ultrasound and breast biopsies
— 1 Feb 2011 19:51 | HealthUsing 'microbubbles' and ultrasound can mean more targeted breast biopsies for patients with early breast cancer, helping to determine treatment and possibly saving those patients from…
Elastography helps identify patients who need biopsy
— 13 Jan 2011 16:39 | HealthA new ultrasound technique is proving valuable in distinguishing malignant from benign breast lesions in some patients - results that could mean fewer unnecessary breast biopsies, a…
Novel metamaterial vastly improves quality of ultrasound imaging
— 11 Nov 2010 11:41 | TechnologyUniversity of California, Berkeley, scientists have found a way to overcome one of the main limitations of ultrasound imaging - the poor resolution of the picture…
Improving sonography requires improving sonography school admissions
— 9 Oct 2010 09:05 | HealthDiagnostic ultrasounds are the most widely used medical tests in the world. Though the technology is more than 50 years old, scientists continue to discover new uses for it, ranging…
Ultrasound device improves poor bone healing
— 8 Oct 2010 12:51 | HealthUltrasound can speed the healing of fractures. A randomised controlled trial reported in the open access journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders has found that the use of low-intensity…