News tagged with magnetic tool

New views at the nanoscale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance imaging, first developed in the early 1970s, has become a standard diagnostic tool for cancer, cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders, among others. MRI is ideally ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Old soles: 800-year-old shoe soles yield clues about preservation of leather

Ancient garbage can be like gold to archaeologists. During excavation of an 800-year-old trash dump in Lyon, France, scientists discovered the archaeological equivalent of golden shoe soles: A trove of leather soles of shoes, ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Cool product: $20 artificial knee for patients in the developing world

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last year Joel Sadler and his classmates faced a daunting challenge in their Biomedical Device Design and Evaluation course: Create a low-cost, high-performance prosthetic knee joint for amputees ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

MRI: Non-invasive diagnostic tool for diagnosing testicular cancer

Researchers have found that non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a good diagnostic tool for the evaluation and staging of testicular cancer and may improve patient care by sparing some men unnecessary surgery, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Noninvasive screening test may detect narrowing in intracranial stents

Great advances have been made in treating blockages in the arteries of the brain using angioplasty to widen the narrowed artery and a stent to hold the artery open. However, in-stent stenosis, or a re-blockage of the artery ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0