Design in Medical Imaging

I have been recently in the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen, Germany and I was quite surprised to find out that they pointed out some design aspects of Medical Imaging scanners. I took some pictures for you:

- PET Uptake Room: In some cases, before a patient makes a PET exam, he should rest to make sure there is uptake of the tracer in the regions of interest. The room should be relaxing and without stimuli. Philips has designed this room for that purpose.

 

- Hybrid Operating Room: A room where surgeries are performed, usually minimally-invasive surgeries, with access to all medical images previously acquired in the screens. The room is prepared to rapidly switch to standard surgical procedure in complicated situations. The room was also designed for comfort of the patient and medical staff.

 

- Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The machine that is best known for its tube shape, where the patient lies down and images are then acquired. The design of these machines has improved significantly to much more compact machines. Also, the size of the tunnel has increased, giving more comfort to the patient. Just look to an older MRI machine here.

What does this blog talk about in one image?

So, you want to know what this blog talked about in the last posts (since 3.May)? Just look at this image made with wordle.net:

Cristiano Ronaldo - How many times did he undergo an MRI exam?

Cristiano Ronaldo was announced today Ballon d'Or and it made me remember something I read some time ago about football players and their injuries. Most of football players injuries are assessed with medical imaging. Medical Imaging provides information about the extent of the injury (e.g. involvement of tendons) and also information about the recovery. The most important exams are: MRI and Ultrasound. Some clubs even have their own ultrasound machine. However, it is still recognized among experts that medical imaging for sports injuries needs further research, because at times it still does not have high sensitivity.

 

So how many times did Cristiano Ronaldo undergo an MRI exam?
Ate least three that I could find:
November 2013
August 2010
October 2009

More information here and there:

Woods C, Hawkins RD, Maltby S, Hulse M, Thomas A, Hodson A, & Football Association Medical Research Programme (2004). The Football Association Medical Research Programme: an audit of injuries in professional football--analysis of hamstring injuries. British journal of sports medicine, 38 (1), 36-41 PMID: 14751943

Medical Imaging Conferences 2014

It is again time for researchers to plan which conferences are the best to go this year. Do you recommend other Medical Imaging conferences? In the end of this post, you find the google calendar, which you can add to your account (press the button in the bottom right).

Link to Medical Imaging Conferences 2015

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Medical Imaging
San Diego, California, United States, 15 - 20 February 2014
http://spie.org/x12166.xml
SPIE 2014 Abstract Submission is now closed!

European Congress of Radiology (ECR 2014)

Vienna, Austria, 6-10 March 2014
 http://www.myesr.org/cms/website.php?id=/en/ecr_2014.htm
ECR 2014 Abstract Submission is now closed!

International Symposium on BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: From Nano to Macro (ISBI 2014)
Beijing, China, April 28-May 2 2014.
http://biomedicalimaging.org/2014/
ISBI 2014 Abstract Submission is now closed!

Annual meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM 2014)
Organized jointly with European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology
Milan, Italy, 10-16 May 2014
http://www.ismrm.org/14/
ISMRM 2014 Abstract Submission is now closed!

Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS 2014)
Fukuoka, Japan, June 25-28 2014
http://www.cars-int.org/
CARS 2014 Abstract Submission: 10 January 2014

International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR 2014)
London, UK, 7-8 July 2014
http://wbir2014.cs.ucl.ac.uk/
WBIR 2014 Abstract Submission:  17 January 2014

International Conference on Pattern Recognition International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014)
Stockholm, Sweden, 24-28 August 2014 
http://www.icpr2014.org/
ICPR 2014 Abstract Submission is now closed!

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2014) Chicago, USA, 26-30 August 2014
http://embc.embs.org/2014/
EMBC 2014 Abstract Submission: 17 March 2014

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2014)
Boston, USA,  14-18 September 2014
http://miccai2014.org/
MICCAI 2014 Abstract Submission: 28 February 2014

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC 2014)
Seattle, USA, 8 - 15 November, 2014
http://nssmic2014.npss-confs.org/
NSS/MIC 2014 Abstract Submission: 11 May 2014
 
Annual Meeting of the Radiology Society of North America (RSNA 2014)
Chicago, USA, 30 November-5 December 2014
http://www.rsna.org/Annual_Meeting_2014.aspx
RSNA 2014 Abstract Submission: 9 April 2014

TOP 2013

I haven't write in this blog for the past 4 months. However, writing this blog was one of the most fun things I have done last year. So, one of my New Year's resolutions is to keep writing this blog. Today, when I came back to the blogger website, I found out that this blog still has more than 1000 views per month... seems good enough reason to re-start writing!

2013 TOP posts were:
How does a painting look like on X-ray?
What does the Muse CD cover have to do with Medical Imaging?
Medical Imaging Conferences 2013

Since the Medical Imaging Conferences 2013 was so successful, I will post in the next days Medical Imaging Conferences 2014.

My wish for all of you in 2014:

Matthieu Ricard showing the scientists he is indeed the happiest man alive! Read more here.