by Conn Hastings | Jul 26, 2021 | Neurology, Neurosurgery, Oncology
At the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute, researchers have developed a device that generates a magnetic field and used it to successfully shrink a glioblastoma tumor in a patient volunteer. The device is worn on the head each day during treatment, and uses an...
by Conn Hastings | Jul 13, 2021 | Diagnostics, Oncology, Radiology
Researchers at Pohang University of Science & Technology in South Korea are reporting on having developed a technique for minimally invasive diagnosis of thyroid cancer. The method combines multispectral photoacoustic imaging and machine learning, and is conceived...
by Conn Hastings | Jul 8, 2021 | Oncology, Radiology, Urology
Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, created an AI system that can identify prostate cancer during routine CT scans. It is typically difficult to spot prostate cancer in CT images, and the radiation makes CT unsuitable as a screening modality....
by Conn Hastings | Apr 19, 2021 | Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Oncology
Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, and the Medical University of Graz, Austria have developed an electrical pump that can precisely deliver chemotherapeutic drugs into the brain. The technology is conceived as being implantable into brain tumor resection...
by Medgadget Editors | Apr 30, 2020 | Diagnostics, Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Oncology, Radiology
Synaptive Medical is reporting that its Evry MRI scanner has won FDA clearance. The device is designed to make magnetic resonance imaging of the head more accessible, cheaper, and easier to manage than many current systems that require specially-built facilities,...
