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Ultrasound education focused SonoSim said this week it is extending a collaboration with GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE)  to cover ultrasound training and education for GE’s women’s health and urology divisions. Through the extended collaboration, Sonosim will offer its SonoSim 365 for GE Healthcare to clients in the women’s health and urology fields who own qualifying ultrasound systems … Continue reading SonoSim, GE Healthcare re-up ultrasound training deal

Trice Imaging and The North American Fetal Therapy Network (NAFTNet) recently announced a collaboration wherein 30 facilities will utilize the Tricefy cloud platform to study fetal diseases through ultrasound, and also develop prenatal interventions to improve outcomes. The cloud platform allows medical professionals and patients to access medical images from anywhere, and also gives physicians … Continue reading Trice, NAFTNet partner to study fetal disease with cloud platform for ultrasound

US PLUSView™ to be implemented on hand-held mobile phone-based ultrasound devices, addressing growing market for patient care STOCKHOLM – July 7, 2016 – ContextVision, the leading provider of medical image processing software, has signed a contract to bring their its world leading ultrasound image enhancement software US PLUSView™ to hand-held iOS-based mobile devices. The move … Continue reading ContextVision publ : Signs Contract to Implement Ultrasound Image Enhancement Software on iOS

MONDAY, July 11, 2016 (HealthDay News) — The ExAblate Neuro device has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to deliver focused ultrasound to destroy small bits of brain tissue that are thought to be involved in a neurological condition known as essential tremor. The device, approved for people who haven’t responded to … Continue reading Ultrasound Device Approved to Treat Essential Tremor

MONDAY, July 11, 2016 — The ExAblate Neuro device has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to deliver focused ultrasound to destroy small bits of brain tissue that are thought to be involved in a neurological condition known as essential tremor. The device, approved for people who haven’t responded to medication or … Continue reading Ultrasound device approved to treat essential tremor

Researchers from the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris and other French institutions tested the experimental device on 15 patients with recurrent glioblastoma. The intention of the device is to disrupt the blood-brain barrier long enough for subsequent chemotherapy to reach the brain. Frédéric Sottilini, the chief executive officer of Paris-based CarThera, the company developing SonoCloud, explained … Continue reading Implantable ultrasound device augments chemo in glioblastoma

By Michael Torrice, Chemical & Engineering News on June 20, 2016 Credit: PhotoDisc/Getty Images/Harnett/Hanzon Advertisement The cells lining blood vessels in the brain form tight, tough-to-penetrate junctions that prevent toxic molecules from slipping into the brain. Unfortunately, this blood-brain barrier also blocks cancer drugs from reaching tumor cells in the brain, creating a significant drug-delivery … Continue reading Ultrasound Implant Safely Opens Blood–Brain Barrier