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Automated 3-D Breast Ultrasound Machine

The newest technology in breast imaging - a fully automated 3-D breast ultrasound machine - is now in use at UT Southwestern Medical Center's Southwestern Center for Breast Care, the first site in Dallas and Fort Worth to obtain the equipment.

28 Mar 2008

Leading Eye Surgeons Travels to Vietnam to Participate in Sight-Saving Mission

Three leading California eye surgeons will travel to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to participate in a sight-saving mission April 14 - 18 on board the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital -- a state-of-the-art medical and teaching facility housed inside a DC-10 aircraft.

28 Mar 2008

Telemicroscope System Capable of E-Mailing Electronic Slides

After nearly ten years of research and development, scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and Peking University in Beijing were awarded a United States patent for their virtual telemicroscope.

27 Mar 2008

Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D

DTS Digital Images, Inc. has provided custom image processing services for New Line Cinema and Walden Media's Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, the first full-length, live action feature shot in digital 3D (slated for release in Summer 2008 and recently previewed at the Showest conference in Las Vegas).

27 Mar 2008

Molecular Imaging is a Powerful Diagnostic and Treatment Tool

The recent release of data by the National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR) showing that positron emission tomography (PET) produced scans revealing disease at a molecular level, which then caused physicians to change treatment plans for more than one-third of participating patients, has corroborated decades of nuclear medicine research.

26 Mar 2008

Miner Library Exhibits Winning Photos Through April

An exhibit of award-winning photographs - intricate, brilliantly colored images of plant, animal and human subjects captured through light microscopes - will open April 1 in the Edward G. Miner Library in the University of Rochester Medical Center.

26 Mar 2008

The Opening of the 75th LasikPlus Vision Center

LCA-Vision Inc., a leading provider of laser vision correction services under the LasikPlus(R) brand, announced the opening of its 75th LasikPlus(R) vision center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

26 Mar 2008

How Color Vision is Processed

New York University biologists have mapped the medulla circuitry in fruit flies, setting the stage for subsequent research on how color vision is processed.

25 Mar 2008

Highly Efficient Light Sources with Photo Detectors on a Single CMOS Chip

For the first time ever, OLEDs and OLED-on-CMOS integration offer the possibility to integrate highly efficient light sources with photo detectors on a single CMOS chip. This enables monolithically integrated optoelectronic applications based on standard silicon.

25 Mar 2008

High-Energy Charged Particles Potentially More Harmful Than X-Rays

A new technique for assessing the damage radiation causes to DNA indicates that the spatial arrangement of damaged sites, or lesions, is more important than the number of lesions in determining the severity of the damage.

24 Mar 2008