Patients are benefitting from the use of a portable near infrared brain imaging device that is being used to compare healthy brain activity with that of those suffering with Parkinsons’ symptoms. The findings, based on the use of the portable near IR device highlight the different roles the prefrontal [...]
Millions suffer from acute or chronic pain every year and the effects of pain exact a tremendous cost on our country in health care costs, rehabilitation and lost worker productivity, as well as the emotional and financial burden it places on patients and their families. While acute pain is [...]
A new imaging method may predict risk of post-treatment brain bleeding after a stroke. In a study of stroke patients, investigators confirmed through MRI brain scans that there was an association between the extent of disruption to the brain's protective blood-brain barrier and the severity of bleeding following invasive [...]
There are many types of angular position sensors and they can be categorized by their output type, sensing range, operating temperature range, packaging type, supply current and supply voltage. An angular position sensor can also measure the equation “by which any position with respect to any other position is established.” [...]
A technique developed by researchers at University College in London has been found to potentially restore the function of muscles afflicted by motor neuron diseases or spinal cord injuries. Researchers found that transplanting motor neurons created from stem cells into injured nerve branches in a patient had the potential to [...]
The medical world changes rapidly and constantly and the way that medication is delivered to patients’ is one of those ways. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in Missouri have developed a wireless device that is the width of a human hair. This device, they say, can be implanted [...]
Optics techniques have been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois that allow ophthalmologists to see the individual cells in the eye ball at the back of a patient’s eye. The benefit of this adaptive optics technique gives the doctor a detailed view of the eye’s blood vessels, cells [...]
Researchers, internationally, convened to study a microscopy technique on zebrafish larvae as a way to understand how wound healing leads to instances of skin cancer. The live images showed that the protective inflammatory cells of the body’s immune system (the neutrophils) can be diverted from a wound to other nearby [...]
Discovering cancer cells and cancerous tissues as soon as medically possibly bodes best for the patient to receive a diagnosis and treatment that brings with it the best possible outcome. Using “ultrafast nonlinear microscopy” surgeons can identify and remove the tumor margins in real time, preventing the need for the [...]
A compact, relatively low cost imaging device has been developed by researchers at the Department of Neurosurgery (Los Angeles, CA) that has the ability to distinguish malignant brain tumors from normal, healthy tissue. The new technology is a small camera and a targeted imaging agent that has been developed based [...]
