According to Dr. Sidney Fels from the University of British Columbia in Canada, computer modeling and simulation of the human body is rapidly becoming a critical and central tool in a broad range of disciplines, including engineering, education, entertainment, physiology and medicine. Detailed geometric models of human anatomy are available for use as instructional aids […]
Month: February 2016
New Scintillators for Nuclear Medicine
In a conference organized by the Gordon Center, Dr. Kanai Shah, President of Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc., discussed new developments in the field of scintillation crystals and their implications on the nuclear medicine imaging. According to Dr. Shah, the next generation imaging scanners can simultaneously be high-performance and cost-effective thanks to scintillators with higher energy […]
New Imaging Technique May Accelerate Understanding of Biological Systems
Biological systems are comprised of intricate molecules, cells and tissues. Understanding interactions of these components remains a major challenge in biology. In a conference organized by the Gordon Center, Dr. Kwanghun Chung from MIT introduced a new method that enables scalable proteomic imaging of intact systems without requiring any specialized equipment or reagents. The method, […]