HealthCare Heroes: Sasso's inventions attack a common ailment

Indianapolis Business Journal;  March 14, 2005 ;     700+ words ......PRE The PRF allows surgeons to use image navigation more efficiently in the operating room. Image navigation improves the precision placement...compared to traditional procedures. "Image navigation is basically GPS [global positioning...

INTRODUCING THE NEXT-GENERATION ADVANCED BASELINE IMAGER ON GOES-R

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......There will also be improvements in radiometric performance, image navigation, and registration. Even with smaller detector sizes, the...ratio will be better on the ABI than on today's imager. Image navigation specifications call for at least a twofold improvement...

UltraGuide Selects Medrad as CT-Guide Distributor.

PR Newswire;  February 19, 2001 ;     477 words ......has named Medrad, Inc. as the exclusive distributor in the United States, Canada and France for UltraGuide's new CT-Guide image navigation system. UltraGuide develops, manufactures and markets innovative visual guidance and navigation systems for medical applications...

India to Launch Meteorological Satellite

Xinhua News Agency;  April 13, 2001 ;     141 words ...The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) plans to launch a geosynchronous meteorological satellite "METSAT," and next Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C3), carrying three spacecraft, including two foreign ones, in...

PET/CT Image Navigation and Communication

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......to a new paradigm in image display and presentation that raises new challenges in workstation interpretation software, image navigation, and communication. The essence of multimodality imaging is the ability to overlay imaging information from different modalities...

Washington Inventor Develops Image Navigation Apparatus

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 6, 2008 ;     274 words ...ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- Blaise Aguera Y Arcas of Seattle has developed an image zooming/panning technique. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "Methods and apparatus are contemplated to perform various actions, including: zooming into or out of

Japanese Inventors Develop Image Navigation Device

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 6, 2008 ;     263 words ...ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- Koji Wakimoto, Shoji Tanaka and Hiroaki Masuoka, all from Tokyo, Japan, have developed a video navigation apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimate image is generated from a position and an angle of a camera and the estimate image is

New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Fluoroscopic Image...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 2, 2006 ;     334 words ...ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 2 -- Douglas Karl Johnson of Seabrook, N.H., and Lewis J. Levine of Weston, Mass., have developed a method and a system for improved correction of registration error in a fluoroscopic image. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments of the

Association of Tropical Cirrus in the 10-15-km Layer with Deep Convective...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT In this paper, millimeter cloud radar (MMCR) and Geosynchronous Meteorological Satellite (GMS) data are combined to study the properties of tropical cirrus that are common in the 10-15-km layer of the tropical...

Scale interactions involved in the initiation, structure, and evolution of...

Monthly Weather Review;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......evolution of a mesoscale convective system observed during TOGA COARE. This study relies upon the use of the Japanese Geosynchronous Meteorological Satellite-4 imagery and ECMWF model outputs, from which diagnostic parameters are derived and interpreted. This mesoscale...

Eyeing the eye: Exciting early stage science results from TRMM

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  August 1, 1998 ;     624 words ......troposphere-are the mechanism for rapid increases in tropical cyclone (TC) intensity. The cover picture shows the GMS (geosynchronous meteorological satellite) image, then overlays of the TRMM precipitation radar (PR) and the TRMM passive microwave imager (TMI) ...

Ultrasound-Guided and CT-Navigation-Assisted Periradicular and Facet Joint...

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......On 3 fresh cadavers, a computed tomography (CT) of the lumbar and cervical region was obtained. By use of a dedicated image navigation and reconstruction system, sonographic images were generated and fused with the collected CT data set. Results: The sonoanatomy...

3-D metrology system boasts high precision.

Test & Measurement World;  December 1, 2007 ;     181 words ......a magnification range from 120X to 14,400X to meet a diverse range of needs in fine surface-profile measurement. A 3-D image navigation tool guides users through each step of microscopic observation, and a 3-D image capture is performed with just a single...

Software offers PET/CT/MR image fusion.(MRI & CT)(positron emission...

Medical Imaging;  July 1, 2008 ;     236 words ......the University Hospital of Geneva have developed open source software based on the OsiriX platform, a fully interactive image navigation and visualization software designed for the display and analysis of large data sets of 3D images. End users around the...

CBYON Offers New Opportunities for Minimally Invasive Surgery.

PR Newswire;  January 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ......guide surgical instruments during surgery. On December 26, 2000, U.S. Patent No. 6,167,296 entitled Method for Volumetric Image Navigation was issued to Stanford University. CBYON is the exclusive licensee of this patent from Stanford University, which also...