A brush with death inspired ex-Facebook and Google executive Mary Lou Jepsen to embark on her latest initiative as the founder of a San Francisco-based startup called Openwater. Jepsen is working on devices that are akin to portable, miniature MRIs which could do everything from observing the effects of a […]
Mary Lou Jepsen left behind her successful career in the tech world – which included top executive roles at Facebook, Google, and Intel – to found Openwater, a startup focused on creating a wearable device that Jepsen says will provide MRI-resolution imaging. Jepsen gave a jaw-dropping talk at TED in […]
Mary Lou Jepsen left behind her successful career in the tech world – which included top executive roles at Facebook, Google, and Intel – to found Openwater, a startup focused on creating a wearable device that Jepsen says will provide MRI-resolution imaging. Jepsen gave a jaw-dropping talk at TED in […]
Facebook is trying to use AI to make MRI scans up to 10x faster. The social network’s AI lab has teamed up with the NYU School of Medicine for a new research project. The company has access to 3 million magnetic resonance images from 10,000 clinical cases. Facebook wants to […]
Doctors are warning patients not to wear spandex clothing when coming in for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedure. Fabrics that use spandex often have metallic threads that could react with the machine and cause burns on patients. Radiologists and hospitals are now banning all athleisure during MRIs, and some […]
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CHICAGO — Medical imaging has been one of the areas in healthcare most ripe for digital disruption. “Phase 1 has already occurred,” Don Woodlock, senior vice president and general manager for Enterprise Imaging at GE Healthcare, told Business Insider. “There’s no film, images come off of all these modalities and get put […]
CHICAGO — The MRI technology we use to get a clearer picture of the inside of our bodies relies on a key resource that keeps the magnets inside the machines extremely cool — 452 degrees Fahrenheit cold, to be exact. To keep things that chilly, the machines use liquid helium, […]
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