Galahad Abella, 17, always dreamed of becoming a professional opera singer until he received a CT scan that showed he had a rare golf ball-sized tumor that needed to be removed.

A technical school in South Dakota is drawing from its radiologic technologist program to train future welders how to excel at their craft. 

University of Las Veags (UNLV) will join a few other schools across the nation in using virtual anatomy tables in teaching programs to examine a patient without destroying vital organs. 

“Black Bone” MRI scans, which offer a radiation-free method of imaging the head and neck, were tested by researchers as an alternative to CT scanning being used to produce 3D objects.

Imagine an MRI scanner that’s 50 to 60 times cheaper than what’s on the market now, small enough to tote around in a standard ambulance and strong enough to find brain bleeds, stroke damage, tumors and more. 

If you think CT colonography is cool, wait till you see virtual holography CT colonography. 

Drawing from previous neuroimaging research grounded in functional MRI, researchers have used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to help patients who have intact cognitive and emotional function but are “locked in” by total motor paralysis—as by Lou Gehrig’s disease—to communicate just by thinking. 

Two radiologists at the Ottawa Hospital have caught the eye of the local business press for their work bringing advanced 3D-printing capabilities to Canadian healthcare.