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Imaging Specialist from Malvern Instruments to Present Poster on Drug Delivery to the Lungs

Imaging specialist Dr Deborah Huck from Malvern Panalytical will present a poster at Drug Delivery to the Lungs 22 (7-9 Dec, Edinburgh, Scotland) exploring how automated imaging can be used alongside cascade impaction to support the development of inhaled drug products.

From Malvern Panalytical 29 Nov 2011

GE Healthcare Reveals Discovery IGS 730 for Interventional X-ray Imaging

GE Healthcare revealed the Discovery IGS 730 interventional system, which is designed to capture the advantages of both floor- and ceiling-mounted systems.

29 Nov 2011

Biograph mCT PET-CT Imaging System Facilitates Improved Diagnostic Certainty

Siemens Healthcare has launched the advanced Biograph mCT for performing positron emission tomography-computed scanning for achieving precise measurement of various metabolic processes and quantification of the measured data.

By Andy Choi 29 Nov 2011

UCP3 Medical Imaging System from Acuo Technologies Receives Frost & Sullivan Award

The Frost & Sullivan North American Product Leadership Award for the year 2011 has been conferred on the Universal Clinical Platform (UCP3) from Acuo Technologies.

By Andy Choi 29 Nov 2011

Toshiba Launches Vantage Titan 3T MR High-Quality Total-Body Imaging System

Toshiba, a manufacturer and distributor of advanced electrical and electronic products, and spanning digital products, had launched the Vantage Titan 3T MR imaging system, which is developed to totally remove the generation of blurred whole-body images and patient compliance challenges while using the 3T MR imaging system.

From Toshiba America, Inc. 29 Nov 2011

Research on Human Facial Transplantation Using Integrated 3-D Imaging

Researchers led by Darren M. Smith, a plastic surgery resident at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), have presented a novel study on the transplantation of the human face at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

By Andy Choi 29 Nov 2011

Strategic Partnership to Commercialize Advanced Silicon Photonic Devices for Optical Communications

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME) has inked a strategic partnership with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories and GLOBALFOUNDRIES to commercialize advanced silicon chips that were designed as part of its Silicon Photonics research platform to promote high-bandwidth and high-speed optical communications.

By Andy Choi 29 Nov 2011

Lumenpulse LED Fixtures Provide Dazzling Lighting to BC Place Stadium

Lumenpulse, a producer of superior performance, architectural LED-based lighting products for institutional, commercial and metropolitan environments has deployed its LED lights at BC Place Stadium, once a landmark but now a treasure of the Vancouver skyline.

By Andy Choi 28 Nov 2011

Techna Institute Enters Contract with Canadian Centre for Photonics and Optics, INO

The recently launched Techna Institute located at University Health Network (UHN) has entered into its first contract with Hamilton and Quebec City-based INO.

By Andy Choi 28 Nov 2011

Coordinated Telescopes Photograph Youngest Supernova with Great Precision

Astronomers have used radio interferometry to obtain a radio astronomical photograph of a cosmic explosion, the youngest supernova SN2011dh, just 14 days after a star exploded in the Galàxia del Remolí (M51) galaxy last June.

By Andy Choi 28 Nov 2011

VITRONIC to Showcase Laser-Based Traffic Enforcement Systems at Gulf Traffic 2011

The VITRONIC Group will be presenting its newest traffic enforcement systems at the Gulf Traffic 2011 event to be held in Dubai from 12 to 14 December. The company’s PoliScanspeed, PoliScanredlight and PoliScansurveillance systems will be showcased at booth 3F30.

By Andy Choi 28 Nov 2011