radiology

Stanford study finds VR imaging boosts radiologists' confidence
By Dave Muoio | 04:35 pm | March 19, 2018
A team of researchers from Stanford University are the latest to demonstrate how virtual reality can give specialists a better look into the bodies of their patients.
Visible Patient gets FDA clearance for custom 3D anatomy models, app still to come
By Jonah Comstock | 09:50 am | November 17, 2015
Visible Patient, a French company that makes 3D models of human organs to assist surgeons, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its VP Planning Software Suite.
With $1B Merge buy, IBM hopes to open Watson's eyes to medical imagery
By Jonah Comstock | 01:05 pm | August 06, 2015
IBM has finalized plans to acquire Merge Healthcare for $1 billion, in the hopes that assets from the medical imaging software company can teach IBM's cognitive computing unit Watson to "see" medical images.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles offers patients imaging app
By Aditi Pai | 08:44 am | May 20, 2015
Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has announced that they will offer an imaging app, called ImageInbox, to their patients.
Study finds Nintendo Wii games may improve balance for people with MS
By Aditi Pai | 11:04 am | September 02, 2014
A small study published in Radiology found that patients with multiple sclerosis who played a high-instensity video game on a Nintendo Wii saw improvement in the microstructural changes of their brains, which in turn improved the participant's balance.