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Medtronic Announces CE Mark of First ICD System to Allow for Full-Body MRI

April 11, 2014 — Medtronic announced CE mark and European launch of the Evera MRI SureScan implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) system, the first and only ICD system approved for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans positioned...

Dutch Medical Center Begins Installation of World's First High-field MRI-guided Radiation Therapy System

Elekta, Royal Philips and University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht (the Netherlands) announced that the initial components of the world's first high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided radiation therapy system are being installed at UMC U...

3-D MRI Scans Survival After Chemo Liver Tumors Johns Hopkins
Three Dimensional MRI Scans May Offer Better Way to Predict Survival After Chemo for Liver Tumors

In a series of studies involving 140 American men and women with liver tumors, researchers at Johns Hopkins have used specialized 3-D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to precisely measure living and dying tumor tissue to quickly show whether...

U.S. Headache Sufferers get $1 billion in Brain Scans Annually

One in eight visits to a doctor for a headache or migraine end up with the patient going for a brain scan, at a total cost of about $1 billion a year, a University of Michigan Medical School ...

Cardio-Oncology Clinic Established at The Mount Sinai...
April 21, 2014 — Cardiologists and cancer experts at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan have joined forces to establish its first cardio-oncology...
First U.S. Patient MRI Scan Clinical Study MRI-Compatible Pacemaker Accent MRI
First U.S. Patient Receives MRI Scan in Clinical Study of...
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif., is the first hospital in the nation to conduct a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of a patient...
Prostate Biopsy Ultrasound MRI Rush Medical Center Chicago
New Fusion Technology Increases Prostate Cancer Detection...
Urologists at Rush University Medical Center are the first in Chicago to offer a powerful new tool for visualizing and monitoring the prostate in men who have...
Medtronic Announces CE Mark of First ICD System to Allow...
April 11, 2014 — Medtronic announced CE mark and European launch of the Evera MRI SureScan implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) system, the...
IMRIS Visius Surgical Theatre MRI Systems Angiography Hybrid OR
IMRIS Inc.’s upgraded Visius Surgical Theatre integrates Siemens' high-field MR scanners. The core imaging technology based on Siemens Aera
Modus Medical Devices Inc.'s Quasar MRID3D is a patent-pending method for quantifying geometric distortion in 3-D magnetic resonance...
GE Healthcare MRI's DV24.0 is a software platform that features applications such as Silent Scan.  DV24.0 Continuum Pak...
Siemens Healthcare has announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Magnetom Prisma, a 3 Tesla (3T) magnetic...
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Prostate Biopsy Ultrasound MRI Rush Medical Center Chicago
New Fusion Technology Increases Prostate Cancer Detection...
Urologists at Rush University Medical Center are the first in Chicago to offer a powerful new tool for visualizing and monitoring the prostate in men who have...
Medtronic Announces CE Mark of First ICD System to Allow...
April 11, 2014 — Medtronic announced CE mark and European launch of the Evera MRI SureScan implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) system, the...
Elekta Philips MRI-guided Radiation Therapy System University Medical Center
Dutch Medical Center Begins Installation of World's...
Elekta, Royal Philips and University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht (the Netherlands) announced that the initial components of the world's first high-field...
3-D MRI Scans Survival After Chemo Liver Tumors Johns Hopkins
Three Dimensional MRI Scans May Offer Better Way to Predict...
In a series of studies involving 140 American men and women with liver tumors, researchers at Johns Hopkins have used specialized 3-D magnetic resonance...

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Breast Density, Screening Controversies Discussed at NCoBC
The 24th Annual Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference (NCoBC 2014), sponsored by the National...
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Joint Commission Calls for Use of Radiation Dose Monitoring
By Dave Fornell, editor I have watched a trend in medical technology grow from a small ripple a...
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CT and Jehovah’s Witnesses: Faith Meets Uncertainty in a High-dose World
Vienna is to the European Congress of Radiology what Chicago is to RSNA. This year the ECR...
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Webinar: Universal Viewer With Breast Imaging Part I: Enhanced Workflow
This webinar will allow clinicians to learn more about the breast imaging application available with GE Healthcare's unified Web-based viewer. Available applications and technologies include...
Webinar: PET/CT — A New Frontier
The webinar "PET/CT: A New Frontier" discusses potential benefits of digital relative to analog PET/CT. The session will discuss how digital PET can improve image quality, lesion detection and...
Lydia Liao spectral mammography
Webinar: SenoBright Contrast–Enhanced Spectral Mammography; Clinical Experience and Case Review
During this webinar, Lydia Liao,  M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., presented an overview of contrast-enhanced spectral mammography technology and shared cases where SenoBright has...