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GE Healthcare Silent Scan tech makes MRI scans less noisy

By Damir Beciri
10 January 2013

rsna2012-optima-mr360-advanceEach year in Chicago, the conference of the Radiological Association of North America (RSNA) provides a forum for showcasing the latest innovations in medical imaging. General Electric Healthcare (GE Healthcare) department introduced Silent Scan – a technology designed to address excessive acoustic noise generated during an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans, thus improving patient experience…. »

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Super-fast book scanner digitizes a book within minutes

By Damir Beciri
2 Comments19 March 2010

book-flipping-scanningScanning a book manually, page by page, is a slow, mind-numbing task. In order to solve this problem, Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa from the University of Tokyo (we also wrote about his baseball robot), and his lab members Takashi Nakashima and Yoshihiro Watanabe, created a super-fast book scanner. The system lets you scan a book by… »