Izi Medical Products has launched its Quick-Core Auto Biopsy System for soft tissue biopsies. Quick-Core Auto is a lightweight, fully automatic biopsy device that builds upon the company's previous semi automatic biopsy system. Izi's Quick-Core Auto has three programmable öring modes for tissue sampling, including automatic delay, and zero-throw modes. It is available in gauges 12G through 20G with lengths of 6cm to 25cm with and without coaxial needles.
GE Healthcare has announced that it has launched the Vscan Air wireless, pocket-sized ultrasound device. Vscan Air is designed to offer clear image quality, whole-body scanning capabilities and an intuitive software platform delivered in a small handheld device, according to a news release. Vscan Air is touted by GE Healthcare as one of the sma l lest and most lightweight handheld ultrasound devices on the market while offering exceptional image quality and advanced visualization software. Among the Vscan Air beneöts…
Seno Medical, has won FDA approval to introduce its Imagio device that utilizes opto-acoustic imaging to help physicians identify whether breast lesions are benign or malignant. It is hoped that this non- invasive and radiation-free technology will help to reduce the number of biopsies that have to be performed. Opto-acoustic imaging combines ultrasound with laser optics to provide a combined view of tissue anatomy and the blood øow around it. Cancerous lesions commonly exhibit a high density of newly formed…
Siemens Healthineers won FDA clearance for its recently introduced MULTIX Impact C ceiling-mounted digital radiography (DR) system. The FDA also cleared the MULTIX Impact VA20, a new version of the existing parent DR system. Both devices are targeted toward clinics on a budget, but offer advanced capabilities, including helping to optimize settings to achieve the best acquisitions and image reconstructions. The systems include wireless detectors, motorized tube heads, and come with free-øoating patient tables. A 10 touchscreen display right on…
Until now, brittleness has limited the practical application of these delicate solids, which consist almost entirely of air-filled pores. This may now change: In the jour nal Angewandte Chemie, Japanese researchers have now introduced extremely elastic aerogels that are easy to process and can be produced at low cost. Their success relies on a doubly cross-linked organic-inorganic network structure with adjustable network density. Aerogels can be made of a variety of materials, all of which are brittle, which makes processes…
