Last year the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved a low-intensity ultrasound system, known as Exogen, for use in the NHS on bone fractures that fail to heal after nine ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers developed a three-dimensional (3D) photoacoustic tomography (PAT) scanner for rapid vascular imaging. Visualizing ...

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Technology that keeps track of how a smartphone is oriented can now give $50,000 ultrasound machines many of the 3D imaging abilities of their $250,000 counterparts -- for the cost of a $10 microchip.

In 2 minutes, the portable ATUSA system automatically scans the entire breast volume and provides 3D visualization of the breast tissue. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) ...

Qualcomm often comes up with wild ideas, and while some of them never make it to prime time, a few gems do appear on next-generation smartphones with Qualcomm processors. The latest futuristic feat ...

The European QUSTom project, which under the coordination of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) aims to introduce a new medical imaging modality based ...

Joshua Broder was using a Wii handset to bat a ping-pong ball back and forth when the idea struck. An emergency physician at Duke University Medical Center, he uses ultrasound to understand what’s ...

Technology has changed rapidly over the last few years with touch feedback, known as haptics, being used in entertainment, rehabilitation and even surgical training. New research, using ultrasound, ...

Fingerprint scanning is hot right now. The iPhone 5S pushed the concept into the limelight last fall, and now Samsung’s competing Galaxy S5 has a built-in sensor as well. Everyone wants a piece of the ...