April 28, 2024

Scanning for better cancer outcomes

The B.C. Cancer Agency unveiled yesterday a new tool in the fight against cancer. The PET/CT scanner is the second at the agency and will double patient capacity, said the parliamentary secretary for seniors to the minister of health, Dr. Margaret MacDiarmid. “I’m looking forward to the new developments I know will happen in cancer imaging, as … [Read more...]

Researchers demo 3D face scanning breakthroughs at SIGGRAPH, Kinect crowd squarely targeted

Lookin' to get your Grown Nerd on? Look no further. We just sat through 1.5 hours of high-brow technobabble here at SIGGRAPH 2011, where a gaggle of gurus with IQs far, far higher than ours explained in detail what the future of 3D face scanning would hold. Scientists from ETH Zürich, Texas A&M, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, … [Read more...]