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Thriving After Childhood Cancer: His Son Survived. Now This Engineer Is Working to Help Others.

Amy Merrick
October 04, 2022
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Mark Frontera always felt that his work mattered. As a mechanical engineer and then a lab manager at GE Research in Niskayuna, New York, he studied how to improve X-ray technology that could one day help doctors diagnose patients sooner and treat them more effectively.

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future of healthcare

Image Maker: Investigational Technology Producing Sharp X-Rays Gets Its First Big Tryout

Tomas Kellner
November 23, 2021

For decades, physicians have used CT scanners to take pictures deep inside your body. They’ve become indispensable to patient care, yet even these remarkable devices have their limits. Now, two research organizations are beginning a pilot study of a technology with the potential to produce X-ray images crisper and more precise than existing approaches.

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Breathing Easier: This AI Is Helping Doctors Spot Life-Threatening Lung Problems Faster

Dorothy Pomerantz
December 09, 2019

A collapsed lung can feel a little like being trapped underwater. Pneumothorax (as doctors call it) is caused by tears in the lung that leak air into the space between the lung and the chest wall creating an air pocket that places immense external pressure on the lung. As the pocket gets bigger, the more air the patient takes in — making it harder and harder to breathe.

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GE Healthcare Receives FDA Clearance of First Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Embedded On-Device to Prioritize Critical Chest X-ray Review

September 12, 2019
  • Helps radiologists prioritize critical cases with a suspected pneumothorax – a type of collapsed lung – by immediately flagging critical cases to radiologists for triage, which could drastically cut the average review time from up to eight hours[1]
  • Offers first-of-its-kind automated AI quality check features that detect acquisition errors, flagging images for technologist review and allowing them to make corrections before they go to radiologists for review

WAUKESHA, Wis., September 12, 2019

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Medical Imaging

An Image Worth A Thousand Words: In Indonesia, A Hospital Uses Technology To Make Radiology Images Available Faster

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 11, 2018
Indonesia is in the middle of an economic boom. Last year GDP rose 5.1 percent, the country’s highest growth rate in four years. That expansion has helped Indonesia’s government launch a universal health care program, among other initiatives. As of 2017, three years into the program, 70 percent of the population — roughly 181 million people — had signed up for some level of government-sponsored healthcare.
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
July 20, 2018
"Radiologists can see the body in color, polymers are shifting between hard and soft states, flying cars are no longer a dream, and the military is bringing mind-controlled robots one step closer to reality. We’re back to the future in this week’s 5 Coolest Things.
 

In Living Color: X-Rays
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History

The Sword In The Virtual Stone: These Eyes Can Peer 1,600 Years Into The Past

October 10, 2017
In 2012, Berlin conservator Katrin Lück brought a tiny, severely corroded lead scroll to GE’s Technical Solutions Center in the town of Wunstorf in northern Germany.
Lück believed that the precious, 1,600-year-old artifact, which measured just 3.6 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters wide, contained scriptures in Mandaic — the language of an ancient gnostic religion dating back to Christ's birth. She wanted to read the verse, but unrolling the scroll would destroy it.
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X-ray

What’s Inside A Jet Engine? These Scientists Are On A Search-And-Don’t-Destroy Mission To Find Out

Todd Alhart
March 01, 2016
Dr. Waseem Faidi’s research playground looks an awful lot like a high-tech hospital room. There’s the large white doughnut of a computed tomography scanner and a medical bed surrounded by digital dials and other instruments seemingly ready to pronounce on biological data.
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Medical Imaging

These Machines Helped Unveil Secrets Of The Human Body

Tomas Kellner
January 26, 2016
Thomas Edison’s light bulb patent was 15 years old when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays and proved their power by imaging the bones inside his wife's hand. "I've seen my death," she reportedly said after seeing the picture. But GE co-founder Elihu Thomson had longevity in mind. A year after Roentgen's discovery, he modified Edison's light bulb to emit X-rays and used it to build the first X-ray machine.
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