Blogs

Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Revolutions need data. They need to explain why the present is not working as well as it could, so that a better route ...

Time June 22, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Personalized medical care conjures an image of exactness. Precision. Its realization was once believed attainable ...

Time June 15, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Effective screening may be the key to America’s future. Only by catching disease early, before disease can injure the ...

Time June 08, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Cancer screening is the only circumstance in which apparently healthy people subject themselves purposely to an agent ...

Time June 01, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

No one really knows how epiphanies come to be. Those moments of enlightenment, slivers in time, when the curtains are ...

Time May 25, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Physicians work differently. What they do and how they do it depends on their specialty. Radiologists and cardiologists ...

Time May 18, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Hippocrates viewed the patient as a whole. Today physicians tend to see the patient as a collection of parts — ...

Time May 11, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Medicine supposedly aches for a universal viewer, one that can satisfy the needs of every physician — cardiologist ...

Time May 04, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

In the world of molecular imaging, PET/MR is a wild card. But it’s a wild card that’s ready to be played. Three major ...

Time April 27, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

It’s been a long time since radiology focused just on the detection of disease. And it will never see those days again ...

Time April 20, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

The intersection between PET/CT and radiation therapy is widening. And it is doing so in unanticipated ways. You might ...

Time April 13, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

The good news for molecular imaging is that the latest generation of PET/CT can visualize more and subtler signs of ...

Time April 06, 2016
arrow
Dave Fornell, ITN Editor

The need for improved efficiency in healthcare and the new requirements of U.S. healthcare reform have rapidly made the ...

Time March 24, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

There is something about magnetic resonance (MR). The elegance of its mathematics. How it leverages the electromagnetic ...

Time March 23, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Software can do amazing things. Take, for example, a couple software packages unveiled at RSNA 2015. One, called GoBrain ...

Time March 16, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

“You keep same-in’ when you ought to be a changin’ … One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.” — ...

Time March 09, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

It’s been almost 40 years since the first human magnetic resonance (MR) pictures were taken. Along with decades of ...

Time March 02, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Statistics have been the basis of modern medical practice. Soon it will be Big Data’s turn. In today’s digital world ...

Time February 24, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Radiologists use visual pattern matching in much the same way referring physicians visually assess their patients. The ...

Time February 17, 2016
arrow
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Fatigue. Bias. Trouble keeping up with peer-reviewed literature. These can spell trouble for radiologists. But machines ...

Time February 10, 2016
arrow
Subscribe Now