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IRIDEX Awarded Competitive Tender to Supply Ophthalmology Laser Equipment to China's Rural Regions

IRIDEX Corporation announced today that its China distributor has been awarded a competitive tender for more than $620,000 in ophthalmology laser equipment to fulfill a government program designed to provide advanced ophthalmology solutions to patients across vast areas of China's rural regions.

3 Dec 2014

DECTRIS Debuts Hybrid Photon Counting Detection to Enable Next-Generation Medical Imaging Equipment

DECTRIS Ltd. is introducing its hybrid photon counting (HPC) detection technology to enable the next generation of medical imaging equipment — and transform everything from mammography to computerized tomography (CT).

2 Dec 2014

Researchers Discover Retina Can Sense Infrared Light Under Certain Conditions

Any science textbook will tell you we can’t see infrared light. Like X-rays and radio waves, infrared light waves are outside the visual spectrum.

2 Dec 2014

C-RAD Strengthens Leadership in Optical Patient Positioning Systems with New Fellow Program

C-RAD has started its cooperation with ten leading radiation therapy centers in North America, Europe and Asia.

1 Dec 2014

X-ray Guidance Device Reduces Radiation Exposure for Liver Cancer Patients

Johns Hopkins researchers report that their test of an interventional X-ray guidance device approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2013 has the potential to reduce the radiation exposure of patients undergoing intra-arterial therapy (IAT) for liver cancer.

27 Nov 2014

Laser Spine Institute Opens New Facility in Cleveland

Laser Spine Institute, the leader in minimally invasive spine surgery, opened the doors today to its new facility in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The Cleveland region contains more than one million people with neck and back pain, according to the National Institutes of Health, The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in the United States. The new center will address this need by providing greater access to minimally invasive spine care procedures throughout the surrounding region.

18 Nov 2014

RetroSense Licenses Worldwide Rights to Massachusetts General Hospital’s Optogenetics Intellectual Property

RetroSense Therapeutics, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company, today announced the signing of a license agreement for exclusive, worldwide rights to Massachusetts General Hospital’s patent application entitled "Method for Augmenting Vision in Persons Suffering from Photoreceptor Cell Degeneration".

18 Nov 2014

New Fluorescence Imaging Technique Accurately Identifies Receptors for Targeted Cancer Therapies

Dartmouth researchers have developed a fluorescence imaging technique that can more accurately identify receptors for targeted cancer therapies without a tissue biopsy. They report on their findings in "Quantitative in vivo immunohistochemistry of epidermal growth factor receptor using a receptor concentration imaging approach," which was recently published in Cancer Research.

17 Nov 2014

New Software Automatically Outlines Bones in Radiograph Images

Research into disorders such as arthritis is to be helped by new software developed at the University of Manchester which automatically outlines bones – saving thousands of hours of manual work.

17 Nov 2014

Photonic Advances Help Explore Structure and Function of Neural Circuits

A University of Texas at Arlington physics team is using their expertise in the field of optics and photonics to advance new methods in areas such as mapping the neural circuitry of the brain and guiding neurons to potentially repair damage in the body.

12 Nov 2014