Sunday Tribune

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WORLD Radiography Day is celebrated annually on November 8 to highlight the profession’s vital contribution to modern healthcare. The date marks the anniversary of the discovery of X-radiation by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. This international day is or

Chicago Tribune

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BROOKFIELD, Ill. _ Today's patient has 2-inch fangs, a glossy golden-brown coat and a triangular, petal-pink nose. Dongwa the clouded leopard lies fully anesthetized in the CT scanner, his tongue lolling, as Brookfield Zoo radiologist Marina Ivancic

Popular Science

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Machine learning can do more with less data. Here's how that could cut MRI scan times in half.

What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

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Nothing quite piques your desire to help create a new healthcare system more than seeing it fail your loved ones. When the problem lands on your doorstep, you know it’s time for change, not in a decade or a year, but today or tomorrow. In my case, th

Weekend Argus Saturday

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WILLIAMS’S duties as a porter at Mediclinic Cape Gate are: • To welcome and orientate patients into the facility. • Assist patients out and into vehicles and wheelchairs. • Orientate new admissions into the ward by showing them the whereabouts of the

Sunday Tribune

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EVERY year, the International Day of Radiology (IDoR2020) is celebrated on November 8 with the aim of building greater awareness of the value that radiology contributes to safe patient care. It also improves public understanding of the vital role rad

Futurity

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A new, “intelligent” metamaterial—which costs less than ten bucks to build—could make the entire magnetic resonance imaging process faster, safer, and more accessible to patients around the world. Clinicians use MRI to diagnose medical problems by sp

CKGSB Knowledge - China Business and Economy

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Chinese medical centers tend to be crowded, chaotic places, but the radiology department of the Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital is an oasis of quiet. The only sound in the dimly-lit office is the rapid clicking of computer mice. At one of the term

Popular Science

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AI may be able to permit MRI machines to run faster but still generate results that radiologists could use. Photo by Ken Treloar on Unsplash Getting an MRI means being in a noisy, claustrophobia-inducing tube. For many, that's no fun. For others—like

Popular Science

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Doctors hope the future of cancer treatment is personal: Using genetics, they’ll be able to match patients with precisely the drug or treatment option that will fight their tumors. However, information on tumor genetics often isn’t linked with data o

Business Today

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Technology is changing healthcare delivery systems globally and Qure.ai, a Mumbai based start up, is at the forefront of this movement in India. The company has developed artificial intelligence (AI) assisted tailored algorithms to help diagnose dise

Antique Trader

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With their soft, boneless bodies, flowers may not seem like candidates for X-rays, but a doctor in the 1930s applied his knowledge of radiology to them, creating sublimely minimalist images of their inner beauty. Although radiographs created for non-

TechLife News

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Doctors at the University of Connecticut are using 3-D printing technology to help them practice some delicate brain surgery. Since 2012, physicians have been using a procedure to treat strokes called a mechanical thrombectomy, guiding a catheter thr

Malaysia Tatler

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In the relatively new field of medical physics in Malaysia, few rivals can come close to University of Malaya’s Professor Ng Kwan Hoong. Ng turned heads in the international medical community in 2018 when he became the first scientist from a developi

Popular Science

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Doctors hope the future of cancer treatment is personal: Using genetics, they’ll be able to match patients with precisely the drug or treatment option that will fight their tumors. However, information on tumor genetics often isn’t linked with data o

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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As a dually board-certified diagnostic and vascular interventional radiologist, DR. DAN WUNDER provides a full range of minimally invasive procedures at Middle Tennessee’s first and only comprehensive outpatient vascular interventional center, Premie

Futurity

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A new algorithm called ChexNet can diagnose pneumonia from chest X-rays, researchers report. The algorithm can diagnose up to 14 types of medical conditions and is able to diagnose pneumonia better than expert radiologists working alone. “Interpretin

How It Works

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Specially wound coils, known as gradient coils, allow for the detailed depth imaging which creates slice-by-slice pictures. While the main superconducting magnet creates a very stable magnetic field, these gradient coils create variable magnetic fiel

How It Works

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Born an only child into a family of cloth merchants and traders, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was set to follow a different career to the trade passed down through generations of his family. Despite his eventual global recognition as a scientific mastermin

Apple Magazine

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Doctors at the University of Connecticut are using 3-D printing technology to help them practice some delicate brain surgery. Since 2012, physicians have been using a procedure to treat strokes called a mechanical thrombectomy, guiding a catheter thr

Futurity

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A new tool for medical professionals may help shed more light on tumors in the body and how the brain operates, researchers report. Researchers created technology that uses optical imaging to better help surgeons map out tumors in the body and help t

NPR

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The Puerto Rican government has prioritized getting power back to hospitals. Many clinics and doctors' offices, like other small businesses on the island, still don't have electricity.

STAT

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In early testing, Google's #artificialintelligence system outperformed six radiologists in diagnosing lung cancer from reviewing a single CT scan.

Woman's Weekly

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✢ CT scans are a series of X-rays making a 3D picture of the brain and meninges covering it, to indicate the tumour type and location. ✢ MRI scans use magnetic imaging rather than X-rays, giving a 3D picture, which is more detailed for imaging the so

STAT

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Researchers at Google, working alongside other experts, have created an AI model that appears capable of more accurately spotting breast cancer in mammograms than human experts, according to a new…

Longevity Magazine

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This much needed facility serving the surrounding area of Krugersdorp started off at a running pace, offering a service to patients from near and far and to patients both inside and outside the hospital. Our ability to send and receive digital x-rays

STAT

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The #coronavirus outbreak is providing the first opportunity for AI developers to test the feasibility of creating reliable algorithms on the fly for use in medicine.

NPR

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Scientists are training computers to read CT scans and in the hopes they could catch pancreatic cancer early.

Futurity

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A new drug delivery system, called cavitation dose painting, would make getting drugs where they need to go more like “paint by numbers” and less like paintball. If the drug needs to enter the bloodstream and circulate throughout your body for treati

Futurity

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Advances in technique and technology have made ultrasound increasingly valuable for imaging a wide variety of medical applications, including pulmonary disease. That’s remarkable, in part, because it was once thought that ultrasound, which most peopl