Medical, Healthcare & Wellness

June 2024

Advanced Energy Expands Family of All-in-One Capacitor Charging and Power Platforms for Medical Applications

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. has announced the FlexiCharge FC2500, expanding its industry-leading portfolio of all-in-one, intelligent system power and capacitor charger platform that simplifies and speeds design of medical laser systems and electrosurgery applications such as Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) Th

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Date:

06/21/2024

Low-Profile 550W AC-DC Power Supplies Offer Convection, Conduction and Fan-Cooled Ratings for Medical and Industrial Applications

XP Power announces a new series of low profile 550W AC-DC power supplies that are rated for convection cooling, conduction cooling and forced-air cooling. Approved for use in both medical and industrial applications; the new PSUs are suited to a wide range of applications – including sealed enclosure environments. In the medic

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Date:

06/19/2024

From Wearables to Swallowables: USC Engineering Researchers Create GPS-like Smart Pills with AI

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Imagine finding your location without GPS. Now apply this to tracking an item in the body. This has been the challenge with tracking “smart” pills – pills equipped with smart sensors–once swallowed. At the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, innovations in wearable electronics and AI have led to the de

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Date:

06/13/2024

Left: Various form-fitting coils are positioned on the MRI bed, designed to closely conform to diverse anatomical sites, enhancing MRI performance wirelessly and passively. Right: The cross-sectional view of a series of circular coaxially-shielded resonators with varying diameters....

Unleashing the Power of Metamaterials to Improve MRI Imaging

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

In recent years, the field of metamaterials has experienced substantial growth, revealing exciting potential, especially in advancing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology. Three new studies led by Dr. Xin Zhang, a BU College of Engineering Distinguished Professor and a professor at the BU Ph

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Date:

06/13/2024

This self-powered sensor (circled in yellow) attached to a headrest within an MRI machine could help make imaging collection more efficient by detecting patient movement in real time.

This Self-Powered Sensor Could Make MRIs More Efficient

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

MRI scans are commonly used to diagnose a variety of conditions, anything from liver disease to brain tumors. But, as anyone who has been through one knows, patients must remain completely still to avoid blurring the images and requiring a new scan. A prototype device described in ACS Sensors could ch

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Date:

06/03/2024