TMI Launches Wireless Foot/Hand Switch For Mobile C-Arms And Cardiovascular Systems.

TransAmerican Medical Imaging (TMI) has announced the launch of the Spectre, a wireless foot switch and hand switch system for GE-OEC Series 9800 and 9900 mobile C-Arms, and the Philips Cardiovascular product line. 
Bob Woodward, TMI’s President, explaining the capabilities of Spectre: “The TMI Spectre replaces the hard-wired foot and hand switches found on GE-OEC Series 9800™ and 9900™ systems, and on Philips fixed Cardiovascular systems. The Spectre eliminates the most common problems found with wired controls: dirty and hard-to-clean cables on the floor, broken cables and it allows OR staff to operate a system from any convenient position near the X-Ray source. Since cables on the floor are also a tripping hazard, this new wireless technology is an effective safety improvement.”
The Spectre wireless system will operate within a radius of 50 feet from a connected system. Since it is not infra-red, it does not have to be “line of Sight”. It can also operate for 20 consecutive hours without the need to be charged. Recharging takes only 2-4 hours.

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Diopsys® CORDA™ New Imaging Software To Help Ophthalmologists

New developed software that is using existing Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) images will be released soon by Diopsys, Inc. This developed imaging software is going to help ophthalmologists and optometrists in procedures carried out for diagnosing retinal and optic nerve diseases like glaucoma, through providing them with thickness measurements of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer (RNFL). Moreover, this thickness may be affected in improper way by retinal vessels beside other things within the RNFL. 
Ophthalmologists and optometrists can reach for more accurate reading of the RNFL health from their OCT images, by using the new software (Diopsys® CORDA™) as it can analyze the inner building of the RNFL by the discrimination of its several components. So they can detect the disease and the vision disorders easily, which will be better for the sake of the patient.

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Radiation Risks Might Be Overestimated, Study.

Despite the dominant trend indicating that radiation exposure during diagnostic imaging carries various risks for developing cancer, a recent report presented December 2 at RSNA 2010 demonstrated that risks may be lower than expected.
Researchers at Stanford University conducted a retrospective study of CT exposure using Medicare claims from 1998 through 2005. The research calculated the ionizing radiation exposure of the exams and estimated the associated cancer risks.
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Two-photon Microscopy Technique To Monitor Immune Cells In Lung, Study.

According to UCSF-led study in mice, researchers improved a way to equalize living lung tissue for screening without disrupting the normal function of the organ. This way was used for the first time and it permitted the researching team to observe both the unfolding events in the immune response during lung injury and the live interaction of living cells in the context of their environment. The authors mentioned that, the capability to screen the lung and other organs with minimum tissue disruption permits scientists to look deeper into many physiological aspects of injury and diseases for instance, cancer and diabetes. 

Senior author Max Krummel, PhD, UCSF associate professor of Pathology, whose lab improved the recent screening technique for viewing minute details of cellular interaction in tissues, reported "The nature of disease is complex, so if scientists can observe in real-time what's happening in tumors or immune responses as they occur, we can find new ways to intervene. We figured out a method for holding cells still enough to image them without interrupting their normal processes. This enabled us to observe cellular events as they happen naturally rather than the usual way, which is to stop the motion of cellular processes in order to photograph them."
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