Years ago, I was a design engineer for a medical-imaging company producing MRI (magnetic-resonance-imaging) equipment. Even though I was not an RF engineer, the designs I worked on had to deal with RF ...

For many people, entering the confinement of an MRI machine can be harrowing: Scans can take hours and patients must lie very still in cramped machines that produce deafening sounds. But a new, ...

Noise—small thermal or quantum fluctuations of particles that generate electric or magnetic signals—is generally thought of as undesirable interference, obscuring the true signals scientists are ...

Getting drugs into the tumors of a cancer patient can be a tricky business. One of the many obstacles clinicians have to contend with centers on the density and stiffness of the tumor itself, which ...

Lihong Wang creates the sort of medical technology you'd expect to find on the starship Enterprise. Wang, a professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has already ...