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Kettering Prof Using Ultrasound To Find Cancer Earlier

Ronald Kumon is seeking a better way to diagnose pancreatic cancer, but he’s a physicist, not a doctor.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/11/19

Former International Space Station Commander Leroy Chiao, Ph.D., performs an ultrasound exam on Expedition 10 crewmate Russian Cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov.

Detroit Doc’s Astronaut Training Could Help Physicians On Earth

A surgeon at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit is working with a NASA-funded medical consortium on using ultrasound to diagnose medical problems on deep space missions when astronauts may be months or years from a hospital. And as so often happens, the techniques developed for space appear to have applications on Earth.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2011/06/23

Henry Ford Hospital. Photo by Mikerussell at Wikimedia Commons

Henry Ford Pioneers Robotically Controlled Ultrasound Probe

Henry Ford Hospital was the first hospital world-wide to use a new, robotically controlled ultrasound probe to remove a cancerous tumor from a kidney.

2011/04/03

Henry Ford West Bloomfield Begins Enrollment For Breast Cancer Study

Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital announced that it has joined a naitonal clinical research study of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based U-Systems to evaluate whether digital mammography, when combined with the Somo-V Automated Breast Ultrasound System is more […]

2010/08/09