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Biomedical applications of nanotechnology

Research & Innovation News

In brief: research round-up

Mar 3, 2010

Recent developments in functional MRI, PET, proton therapy, cardiac CT and more.

In brief: research round-up

Feb 3, 2010

Recent developments in image guidance, PET, RF ablation, nanomedicine and more.

Nanosensor detects cancer in whole blood

Feb 1, 2010

Fluidic chip identifies tiny amounts of cancer biomarkers in non-purified blood samples.

Innovation: patent applications review

Jan 15, 2010

Our survey of the latest international patent applications in medical imaging reviews filings from Axsun Technologies, Philips, InfraReDx, TomTec Imaging Systems and more.

Opinion

Medical physicists: preparing for change

Oct 27, 2008 (6 comments)

As the boundaries between medical disciplines become increasingly blurred and those between diagnosis, therapy and management follow suit, how can medical physicists adapt to these changing needs?

High-performance computing: shaping medicine's future

Jul 14, 2008

Tools such as grid networks and supercomputers will play a vital supporting role in biomedical research and clinical development.

'Multidisciplinarians' set the agenda in biophotonics

May 2, 2008

Photonic technologies are undergoing a second renaissance, argues Tom Baer of the Stanford Photonics Research Center in California. So what does that mean for biomedical applications?

Multimodal themes shape the BiOS agenda

Jan 28, 2008

A multimodality approach to diagnostics and therapeutics was one of the defining themes at the recent Biomedical Optics Symposium in San Jose, California.