Radiology
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Radiology
Butterfly Network Expands Applications for Smartphone-Connected Ultrasound: Interview
Butterfly Network, the digital health unicorn democratizing medical imaging, is continuing to add new applications for its handheld, single probe, smartphone-connected ultrasound technology. The Butterfly iQ, the multi-purpose pocket-sized...
Radiology
MRI Maps to Track Effectiveness of Drug Releasing Implants
Drug-releasing implants may have significant benefits for treating a variety of diseases. They're already used in a few limited applications, but wider implementation has proven to be challenging because it is difficult to know how a drug moves...
Radiology
Omega FluoroShield FDA Cleared to Reduce Radiation Exposure
Omega Medical Imaging, a firm based in Sanford, Florida, has won FDA clearance for its FluoroShield technology, as well as the 2020 Cardiac Flat Panel Detector. FluoroShield automatically aims the radiation beam across the area of interest...
Radiology
MRI Metamaterials Drastically Enhance Imaging Quality
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires very expensive scanners, and special facilities to host them. As things stand, most hospitals around the world can't afford an MRI machine. Things may soon get a bit easier thanks to new metamaterials,...
Radiology
XACT Hands-free Instrument Placement Robot Cleared in U.S.
XACT Robotics, an Israeli company, just announced winning FDA clearance for its instrument steering and insertion system for percutaneous procedures. Used to perform procedures such as biopsies and ablations, the XACT device provides a great...
Radiology
Facial Recognition Software IDs Individuals from MRI Brain Scans
Clinical researchers regularly share data with other scientists. Typically, a great deal of effort is expended to make sure that individuals cannot be identified from the data that are generated from them. When sharing imaging information, such...
Radiology
Canon Ultra High-Res Aquilion Precision CT Now Boosted by Artificial Intelligence
Canon has announced that its new Advanced Intelligent Clear-IQ Engine (AiCE) has been cleared by the FDA to be used on the company's "ultra high-resolution" Aquilion Precision CT system. The use of the AiCE deep convolutional neural network for...
Radiology
Tiny Medical Imaging Sensor Sets Guinness World Record
OmniVision Technologies, a Santa Clara, California firm, just announced that it has won the Guinness World Record for "The Smallest Commercially Available Image Sensor". The OV6948 sensor was designed for use in catheters and endoscopes,...
Radiology
Fidmi Enteral Feeding Device Prevents Dislodgement, Lets Patients Swap Inner Tube Themselves
Fidmi Medical, a company based in Israel, won FDA clearance for its new low-profile enteral feeding device. The product is designed to help overcome many of the challenges presented by percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes, especially...
Radiology
