In-vivo

Many routine surgical biopsies could become a thing of the past as dermatologists may soon be sharing, reviewing and diagnosing noninvasive digital images of skin cells via the Internet, using Lucid Inc.'s VivaNet(TM) telemedicine server and...

MedPage Today reports, "The goal of noninvasive glucose monitoring for children with type 1 diabetes has gained momentum from early results with an experimental breath test," according to a study reported online in the Proceedings of...

For Fluorescent In Vivo Imaging Applications Carestream Molecular Imaging said it has added new large Stokes-shift dyes for fluorescent in-vivo imaging applications to its Kodak X-Sight imaging agent product line. Carestream Molecular Imaging...

Researchers say they can detect circulating tumor cells using multiphoton intravital flow cytometry without drawing blood. "This new technique is less invasive and can evaluate a much larger volume of blood than what can be drawn from a...

Exhaled volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can give much information about the body, and lung cancer-associated VOCs may be of use in diagnosis, according to Chinese researchers. As they report in the August 15th issue of Cancer, Dr. Ping Wang...

A stretcher races through the entrance of a busy hospital. The car-accident victim lies on top and grimaces in pain. While surface injuries looks gruesome, the real medical danger is invisible - internal organ damage caused by being crushed...