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Cyclotrons could alleviate medical isotope shortage
11 hours ago | News
(Society of Nuclear Medicine) The most widely used medical radioisotope, Technetium-99m (Tc-99m), is essential for an estimated 70,000 medical imaging procedures that take place daily around the world. Aging reactors, production intermittencies and threats of permanent reactor...
Detecting tumors faster
14 hours ago | News
(Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) To diagnose cancer reliably, doctors usually conduct a biopsy including tissue analysis -- which is a time-consuming process. A microscopic image sensor, fitted in an endoscope, is being developed for in vivo cancer diagnosis, to speed up the detection of tumors.
Taking the guesswork out of soil classification
14 hours ago | News
(University of Missouri-Columbia) A University of Missouri doctoral student has developed a technique that uses digital imaging of soil samples to take some of the guesswork out of wetland identification.