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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.
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Physics in Medicine & Biology
Radiotherapy in the presence of contrast agents: a general figure of merit and its application to gold nanoparticles
Sep 29, 2008
Stephen J McMahon et al 2008 Phys. Med. Biol. 53 5635-5651
Classification of motor imagery by means of cortical current density estimation and Von Neumann entropy
Mar 30, 2007
Baharan Kamousi et al 2007 J. Neural. Eng. 4 17-25