Protégé MRI spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system--Courtesy of St. Jude Medical The FDA has approved the Protégé MRI spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system to treat ...

A new prototype sensor is capable of detecting errors in MRI scans using laser light and gas. The new sensor can thereby do what is impossible for current electrical sensors -- and hopefully pave the ...

New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads, ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sorin Group, (Reuters Code: SORN.MI), a global medical device company and a leader in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, announced today that it has received approval ...

GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Senseonics Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: SENS) a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of a long-term, implantable continuous ...

Using a specialized MRI sensor, engineers have shown that they can detect light deep within tissues such as the brain. Using a specialized MRI sensor, MIT researchers have shown that they can detect ...

MR318 is the world's first commercially-available rotaryposition sensor which can operate with complete "transparency" inextreme electromagnetic fields such as MRI machines. An enabler for ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT neuroscientists have developed a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sensor that allows them to monitor neural activity deep within the brain by tracking calcium ions. Because ...

As pacemaker technology becomes more complex and sophisticated, new systems present new challenges and more complex modes of failure. The risk of lead failure probably is higher than the risk of ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Using a specialized MRI sensor, MIT researchers have shown that they can detect light deep within tissues such as the brain. Imaging light in deep tissues is extremely difficult ...