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More Accurate Breast Cancer Diagnosis May Come from Combined MRI-Optics Method

By combining two techniques, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and near-infrared optics, researchers at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School may have devised a new, potentially more accurate method for diagnosing breast cancer.

13 Jul 2007

Laser-Based Item Monitoring System Offers Alternative to Video Surveillance

Surveillance systems take on a new look with a technology developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

13 Jul 2007

New, Nanoparticle-Based Multi-Probe Systems for New Generation of Medical Imaging

Since X-rays were discovered more than a century ago, triggering a revolution in medical imaging, clinicians have sought more powerful ways to "see" into the human body.

13 Jul 2007

High Resolution 4Pi Microscopy Reaches the Nucleus

Confocal light microscopy has been an important tool for biomedical scientists as they work to unravel molecular events occurring within human cells.

13 Jul 2007

Ultralight, Handheld Terahertz Spectrometer

"T-rays" have been touted as the next breakthrough in sensing and imaging, but the need for bulky equipment has been an obstacle to reaching the field's potential.

13 Jul 2007

Fiber-Based Light Source Promises Improvements In Food Inspection

A new light source based on fiber-optic technology promises to improve the inspection of food, produce, paper, currency, recyclables and other products.

13 Jul 2007

Optical Cloaking Device

Researchers using nanotechnology have taken a step toward creating an "optical cloaking" device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside this "cloak."

13 Jul 2007

Dual-Modality Microbeads Identify Disease Biomarkers

Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has always been a time-consuming and difficult process.

13 Jul 2007

New X-ray Microscope Technique Observes Nano-Scale Features

Argonne National Laboratory scientists in collaboration with Xradia have created a new X-ray microscope technique capable of observing molecular-scale features, measuring less than a nanometer in height.

8 Jul 2007

New Biophotonics Center

A new science 'biophotonics' has a new center of operations. Quarters for the National Science Foundation-funded UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology were dedicated Monday in the Oak Park Research Building at 2700 Stockton Blvd.

8 Jul 2007