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CT Scans — With Radiation and Cancer Risk — Rose in Children

Use of computed tomography (CT) scans — and thus exposure to ionizing radiation — increased over 15 years in children at a set of nonprofit health care delivery systems in a new study. But currently available strategies could greatly red...

Reducing Unnecessary and High-dose Pediatric CT Scans Could Cut Associated Cancers by 62 Percent

A study examining trends in X-ray computed tomography (CT) use in children in the United States has found that reducing unnecessary scans and lowering the doses for the highest-dose scans could lower the overall lifetime risk of future imaging-rel...

Siemens Introduces Continuous FlowMotion PET/CT

Siemens Healthcare has introduced Biograph mCT Flow, a positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) system that, for the first time ever, overcomes the limitations of conventional bed-based PET/CT with FlowMotion, a revolutionary...

Twice as Many Early-Stage Lung Cancers Detected on Initial Screening With Low-Dose CT Compared to X-Ray

The results of the first (of three planned) annual low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening examinations from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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CT Scans — With Radiation and Cancer Risk — Rose in Children

Use of computed tomography (CT) scans — and thus exposure to ionizing radiation — increased over 15 years in children at a set of nonprofit health...

Agfa HealthCare Expands Enterprise Imaging Platform With...

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of enterprise clinical imaging and IT solutions, announces today the global release for sale of ICISTM View 3.0, the...

MIM Software Showcases Single Platform Viewing Solution

MIM Software Inc. has introduced a new version of MIM Encore that provides a single platform for viewing positron emission tomography (PET), computed...

Reducing Unnecessary and High-dose Pediatric CT Scans Could...

A study examining trends in X-ray computed tomography (CT) use in children in the United States has found that reducing unnecessary scans and lowering the...

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of enterprise clinical imaging and IT solutions, announces today the global release for sale of ICISTM

MIM Software Showcases a Single Platform Viewing Solution for PET, CT, MRI, and Nuclear Medicine Exams

June 13, 2013 — MIM Software Inc. has introduced a new version of MIM Encore that provides a single platform for viewing positron...

Siemens Introduces Continuous FlowMotion PET/CT

Siemens Healthcare has introduced Biograph mCT Flow, a positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) system that...

MIM Software Releases MIM 6

MIM Software Inc. has announced its software release MIM 6 is now available. Users in all areas of medical imaging can benefit from tools...

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Reducing Unnecessary and High-dose Pediatric CT Scans Could...

A study examining trends in X-ray computed tomography (CT) use in children in the United States has found that reducing unnecessary scans and lowering the...

Siemens Introduces Continuous FlowMotion PET/CT

Siemens Healthcare has introduced Biograph mCT Flow, a positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) system that, for the first time ever,...

Personalized Medicine Gets Up to Bat

In an increasingly impersonal world, where Facebook counts the number of friends we have and texting takes the place of conversation, who would not want...

Rescue Lung, Rescue Life

The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) was a National Cancer Institute sponsored trial that began in 2002. This randomized controlled trial examined more...

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An Emerging Trend — Patient Satisfaction

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The New Age of Personalized Medicine

We are seeing a semantic shift in medicine, one that is redefining personalized medicine from pie...

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MR “Fingerprinting” Promises Quick Screen for Disease

Only one radiological modality – mammography – is used today for screening. Yet, as America...

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Don’t Miss The Next LIVE Webinar! An Introduction To Cloud-Based Medical Image Exchange

Seats are limited, register today Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT Interested in implementing cloud-based imaging solutions? As a first step, please join DICOM Grid’s Live...

Bedside Radiography-Into the Digital Age

Chip Truwit, MD, offers an overview of Bedside Radiography from a clinical perspective. He will review current radiographic challenges and their effects on bedside imaging, highlighting how new...

Iterative Reconstruction in CT: Understanding and Implementation

Radiation exposure from multidetector CT (MDCT) has become a pressing public health concern in both lay and medical publications. Implementation of iterative reconstruction offers radiologists the...