Tag: MRI

People experiencing a migraine climbed inside an MRI to find out why

Noisy MRI machines are an unpleasant place to have a migraine, but scanning people in the middle of an attack has revealed which regions of the brain may be responsible for the condition Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261295-people-experiencing-a-migraine-climbed-inside-an-mri-to-find-out-why/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Facebook and NYU Set Out To Develop AI-Powered 5-Minute MRI Scan

Researchers at NYU Langone Health and Facebook’s artificial intelligence division have teamed up to develop an AI model that uses less data and creates images faster than traditional MRI techniques, according to a Wall Street Journal report. From a report: The goal of the project is to create a five-minute MRI as an alternative to the 20 minutes to an hour…

An AI built by Facebook could drastically speed up MRI scans

An AI system, built by researchers at Facebook and NYU Langone, can produce MRI scans with only a quarter of the data normally required, which could speed up the scanning process Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2252012-an-ai-built-by-facebook-could-drastically-speed-up-mri-scans/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Patients Aren’t Being Told About the AI Systems Advising Their Care

At a growing number of prominent hospitals and clinics around the country, clinicians are turning to AI-powered decision support tools — many of them unproven — to help predict whether hospitalized patients are likely to develop complications or deteriorate, whether they’re at risk of readmission, and whether they’re likely to die soon. But these patients and their family members are often…

New X-Ray Technique Images Soft-Tissue Tumors Clearer Than MRI

Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new method of adapting X-ray to image soft tissue, “so that its higher resolution can reveal tumors or other problems earlier than other techniques,” reports New Atlas. From the report: Elastography is a field of medical imaging that focuses on the stiffness or softness of tissues. Shear waves are sent through the body, and…

A New Use For McDonald’s Used Cooking Oil: 3D Printing

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Professor Andre Simpson had a problem. The University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus was paying through the nose for a crucial material for its 3D printer. Few would have guessed McDonald’s would come to the rescue. Simpson is director of the school’s Environmental NMR Center dedicated to environmental research. Central to this research is…

Researchers report MRI on the atomic scale

Researchers at QuTech, a collaboration of TU Delft and TNO, have developed a new magnetic quantum sensing technology that can image samples with atomic-scale resolution. It opens the door towards imaging individual molecules, like proteins and other complex systems, atom by atom. The team reports on their results in Nature on the 18th of December. …

Low-Risk Ultrasound Procedure Destroys 80 Percent of Prostate Cancers In One-Year Study

An anonymous reader quotes a report from SlashGear: A new treatment shows promise for revolutionizing prostate cancer treatment, offering a minimally-invasive and relatively low-risk alternative to traditional surgeries and radiotherapies. Called TULSA, this method uses sound waves to eliminate the diseased tissue in the prostate, leaving the rest of the healthy tissues behind. According to the researchers, patients treated with this…

An AI doctor is analysing heart scans in dozens of hospitals

Doctors are using artificial intelligence in dozens of hospitals to help them make sense of MRI images of the heart Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2224403-an-ai-doctor-is-analysing-heart-scans-in-dozens-of-hospitals/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…