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Sophisticated CT Scan Diagnoses Chest Pain in Emergency Department

In the future, patients who arrive at a hospital Emergency Department complaining of chest pain may be diagnosed with a sophisticated CT scan. If the diagnosis is negative, the patient can go home—and the total time at the hospital will be much shorter than it is today.

28 Nov 2007

Veeco Announces Availability of Table-Top Optical Profiling System

Veeco Instruments Inc., today announced the release of the Wyko(R) NT9100(TM) Optical Profiling System, which delivers the performance and many of the capabilities of Veeco's full-sized profiling systems in a convenient and affordable table-top footprint. The new system is ideal for many applications in research, industrial, quality control, and failure analysis.

From Veeco 28 Nov 2007

Johns Hopkins Installs Most Powerful X-Ray Imaging Machine in its Class

The first 320-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner in North America, the most powerful X-ray imaging machine in its class, has been installed and is in operation at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

27 Nov 2007

Competitive Technologies Signs Joined Agreement for Solar Panel Technology

Competitive Technologies, Inc. and Articulated Technologies, LLC today announced that they have signed an agreement for CTT to license and commercialize Articulated's patented organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology for adaptation to solar power. The agreement provides for revenue sharing between CTT and Articulated of royalty and licensing payments.

26 Nov 2007

Australian Scientists Create World's Most Accurate Ruler

In a paper published in Nature today, Griffith Centre for Quantum Dynamics researchers reveal a technique that, for the first time, measures lengths as accurately as the laws of physics allow.

26 Nov 2007

New Radiation Source Could Improve Cancer Detection and Border Security

Going through airport security can be such a hassle. Shoes, laptops, toothpastes, watches and belts all get taken off, taken out, scanned, examined, handled and repacked. But "T-rays", a completely safe form of electromagnetic radiation, may reshape not only airport screening procedures but also medical imaging practices.

26 Nov 2007

Moths Adopted to Create Industrial Lens for Low Light Environment

When moths fly at night, their eyes need to capture all the light available. To do this, certain species have evolved nanoscopic structures on the surface of their eyes which allow almost no light to reflect off the surface and hence to escape.

26 Nov 2007

DESY Celebrates New Source of Especially Brilliant X-ray Light

DESY celebrates the topping-out ceremony for the experimental hall of PETRA III the new source of especially brilliant X-ray light in Hamburg. On occasion of the structural completion of the building, German Research Minister Dr. Annette Schavan and Hamburg s First Mayor Ole von Beust visited the Helmholtz research centre DESY. Its new light source PETRA III is due to be completed in 2009.

26 Nov 2007

AMS Technologies Announces Expansion of Laser Diode Drivers

AMS Technologies announces the expansion of the PLD series of laser diode drivers from Wavelength Electronics, Inc.

26 Nov 2007

Access Time to Critical Images Slashed From 30 Minutes to Seconds

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Wellmont Health System has strengthened its information lifecycle management strategy by deploying an EMC information infrastructure solution to manage its growing library of digital medical images such as X-rays, ultrasounds, and MRIs.

26 Nov 2007