1. BSD Reports Effective Bladder Cancer Treatment
(Modalities/Radiology )

... the start of radiation therapy, they heat the bladder to 40 to 44 degrees Celsius using microwaves. The heat further increases the effect of the radiochemotherapy." The press release was issued as a result ...

2. Encouragement for Free State tele-health
(Communities/Teleradiology)

... sites have been connected, the project will be dedicated to establishing additional networks. Connecting remote rural clinics to surrounding secondary medical centres through microwaves and mobile radio ...

3. MIT: Remote-control nanoparticles deliver drugs directly into tumors
(Communities/Nuclear Molecular)

... waves. These waves pass harmlessly through the body and heat only the nanoparticles. For comparison, microwaves, which will cook tissue, have frequencies measured in gigahertz, or about a million times ...

4. MIT: Remote-control nanoparticles deliver drugs directly into tumors
(Radiology Conferences/RSNA 2008)

... waves pass harmlessly through the body and heat only the nanoparticles. For comparison, microwaves, which will cook tissue, have frequencies measured in gigahertz, or about a million times more powerful. ...

5. BSD Medical's new cancer ablation system unveiled
(Imported/Imported)

... ablation. It transmits microwaves directly into the tissue, with no grounding pads needed as with RF (radiofrequency) ablation systems. Grounding pads can cause remote skin or fat burns. Microwaves can ...

6. How to make microwaves on a chip to replace X-rays for medical imaging and security
(Modalities/Radiology )

... microwave radiation the nondestructive imaging technology of the future? Microwaves with frequencies from a few hundred gigahertz (GHz) up to slightly over one terahertz (THz), penetrate just a short distance ...

7. Keep your shoes on: T-rays can see right through
(Imported/Imported)

... Welp said. The work, done with researchers in Turkey and Japan, represents "a big step forward," he said. T-rays are part of the electromagnetic spectrum that lies between microwaves on the low end and ...

8. Researchers at Leeds mine the 'Terahertz gap'
(Imported/Imported)

... been studied together." Technologies using the radiation from many regions of the electromagnetic spectrum are well developed: the use of radio waves, x-rays and microwaves are now second nature in modern ...

9. How to make microwaves on a chip to replace X-rays for medical imaging and security
(Modalities/Radiology )

Tags: [Microwaves, radiation, imaging technology, future]  ...