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Treating Pain with Virtual Reality: Interview with AppliedVR CEO Matthew Stoudt 

AppliedVR is an exciting company that is using virtual reality to treat pain and anxiety in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The VR applications are designed by a multidisciplinary team for maximum therapeutic effect. Applied VR runs on the Gear VR and...

September 20, 2016

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Computer program beats physicians at brain cancer diagnoses

Computer programs have defeated humans in Jeopardy!, chess and Go. Now a program developed at Case Western Reserve University has outperformed physicians on a more serious matter. The program was nearly twice as accurate as two neuroradiologists in determining whether...

September 20, 2016

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Kolo Medical Introduces Next Gen SiliconWave™ Ultrasound Transducers

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Expanding its suite of next generation ultrasound transducers based on semiconductor technologies, Kolo Medical announced today that it will introduce three new SiliconWave™ transducers at the 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) in...

September 16, 2016

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MR-Guided Brain Ultrasound Helps Rouse Coma Patient Back to Consciousness 

Neuroscience researchers and clinicians at UCLA have used MR-guided ultrasound to help rouse a recovering coma patient to a more alert state of consciousness. They’re not certain about the extent to which the novel therapy contributed to the good outcome,...

August 31, 2016

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Mallinckrodt to Sell Nuclear Imaging Business to IBA Molecular for $690 Million

Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals announced Aug. 24 it has reached an agreement to sell its nuclear imaging business to IBA Molecular (IBAM) for $690 million. “Our team has made significant progress in driving profitability over the past few years,” said Mark Trudeau,...

August 25, 2016

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Siemens and INSIGHTEC Sign Strategic Agreement 

ERLANGEN, Germany and HAIFA, Israel, Aug. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — INSIGHTEC, the global leader in MR-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) therapy, announced today the signing of a strategic agreement with the global leader in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Siemens Healthineers. The strategic...

August 19, 2016

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A deep flaw has been discovered in thousands of neuroscience studies using fMRI

Modern neuroscience would be impossible without functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI. The technique is barely 25 years old, but thousands of studies that use it are published each year. When you see headlines such as “Vegetative state patients can...

August 12, 2016

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InSightec’s Ultrasound Tech Wins FDA Nod as Essential Tremor Treatment

InSightec is helping some patients avoid brain surgery by using focused ultrasound to treat essential tremor in a noninvasive manner.   InSightec’s Exablate Neuro includes a helmet that circulates cooling water to keep a patient’s scalp from overheating during the...

August 9, 2016

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Portable Ultrasound System Wirelessly Transmits Data to Smart Devices

Healcerion, a company based in South Korea, has developed an ultrasound system that’s no bigger than the transducer itself. The SONON 300C uses a paired tablet or smartphone of your choice as the display, wirelessly transmitting the data to the...

August 3, 2016