Novel MRI technique provides clear images of blood flow
... Judd collaborated with Wolfgang Rehwald, Ph.D., a physicist with Siemens Medical Systems, manufacturer of the MRI equipment, as well as Duke researchers Raymond Kim, M.D. and Enn-Ling Chen, Ph.D. "While further work is necessary to refine this new approach, GCFP already represents the only diagnostic techniqu...Physics World Digest August 2004: Eye surgery sharpens up
... ) Physicist tracks down ancient temple A Jewish physicist born in Scotland controversially claims to have solved a problem that has puzzled archaeologists and scholars for centuries by locating the site of the Second Temple in the Old City of Jerusalem. Asher Kaufman, emeritus professor of physics at the He...Vietnamese doctor to receive human rights award from NY Academy of Sciences
...st human rights award was given in 1979 to Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov. Renamed in 1988 in honor of former Academy president Heinz R. Pagels, the award has been bestowed on such imminent scientists as Chinese dissident Fang Li-Zhi, Russian Nuclear Engineer Alexander Nikitin, and Cuban Economist Martha B...UT Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Center is first in Texas to treat patients with TomoTherapy
...itting the target." Dr. Alex Turner, chief medical physicist at Moncrief, said what sets TomoTherapy apart from conventional treatment-delivery systems is its efficiency and precision, enhanced by image-guided radiotherapy. "TomoTherapy combines treatment planning, patient positioning and treatment delivery...Designing an ultrasensitive 'optical nose' for chemicals
...reement with NIST. The company will work with NIST physicist Jun Ye (co-developer of the technology) to apply the public domain "optical nose" technique to detecting and quantifying trace quantities of atmospheric gases. Ye works at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The......ho work with Alfredo Ferrari, who also is a senior physicist at CERN. The present version of FLUKA is the product of this team of authors. Following the course held at UH, FLUKA's source code will be available for the first time to scientists under a special license agreement between CERN and INFN. CERN h...