The airport in Kelowna, B.C., will be the first in Canada to test a new type of passenger scanner that creates a three-dimensional virtually nude image of people.
To grasp the power of Toshiba’s new Aquilion ONE computed-tomography (CT) scanner, imagine facing a picturesque beach. Your camera doesn’t have a panoramic function, so you take snapshots pointing to ...
... superior diagnostic test performance of the CT scanner, and the avoidance of the observation unit costs.
"There is relatively ... new technology, the 64-slice CT scanner, in low-risk chest pain patients ...
... director of operations at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, sought to determine the cost-effectiveness of utilising a CT scanner to evaluate low-risk chest pain patients in the emergency room...
LOD, Israel (Reuters) - Israel has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be X-rayed for hidden weapons, though the new ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- An engineer at the University of Manchester has developed a prototype scanner that could be used to detect explosives and weapons hidden in the shoes of travellers.
A team led by Stanford researchers has developed a prototype blood scanner that can find cancer markers in the bloodstream in early stages of the disease, potentially allowing for earlier treatment ...
... to amend the Physical Agents (EMF) Directive which, if adopted into national legislation, would drastically curtail the use of MRI scanners in hospitals and research centres across Europe...
UK scientists develop a portable microwave scanner to help police identify individuals carrying concealed guns and knives.
An airport scanner that speeds up boarding while allowing passengers to avoid the pat-down security search has one potential drawback: The scan shows the passenger in a near naked state.
(PhysOrg.com) -- A state-of-the-art chest scanner, the first of its kind in the UK, will allow doctors and researchers to spot heart problems that were previously undetectable.
Federal regulators have approved the sale of a new laser scanning system intended to locate fatty deposits in blood vessel walls that are thought to cause heart attacks.
New handheld medical scanners are coupled with regular cell phones.
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“There are many other applications under investigation, such as energy harvesting, oscillatory systems for clocks, mirror arrays, and scanners,” the authors conclude.
... do we make tradeoffs in difficult situations"”
An interest in such issues kept the study subjects in the scanner, despite the pain of grappling with difficult choices, Hsu said. “Quite a few came out ...
