Omega FluoroShield FDA Cleared to Reduce Radiation Exposure

Omega Medical Imaging, a firm based in Sanford, Florida, has won FDA clearance for its FluoroShield technology, as well as the 2020 Cardiac Flat Panel Detector. FluoroShield automatically aims the radiation beam across the area of interest during interventional procedures utilizing fluoro or cine (short X-ray movies of the beating heart) imaging. T (Read more...)

MRI Metamaterials Drastically Enhance Imaging Quality

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires very expensive scanners, and special facilities to host them. As things stand, most hospitals around the world can’t afford an MRI machine. Things may soon get a bit easier thanks to new metamaterials, developed at Boston University, that improve the quality of MRI imaging. This development may allow (Read more...)