December 1, 2010 – A completely Web-based picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is on display at the RSNA 2010 meeting. Infinitt PACS is hardware-agnostic and offers an embedded 3-D PACS viewer and a full array of image visualization and management tools. Several hospitals in the United States are switching to the company’s PACS system because of the savings it offers.
October 28, 2010 – A report by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) provides new criteria for selecting patients who could benefit from cardiac computed tomography (CCT). The report, which was developed in partnership with the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) also informs payers about appropriate clinical scenarios for its use.
October 28, 2010 – An initial feasibility study has demonstrated the ability to use cesium-131 (Cs-131) brachytherapy seeds in accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) for breast cancer treatment. The study looked at IsoRay’s patented therapy for treating early stage, localized breast cancer.
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
October 28, 2010 – A new report from research firm KLAS has found that hospitals and clinics now hold close to 40 percent of teleradiology contracts. This represents a dramatic shift, since local radiology groups have traditionally held those contracts.
October 28, 2010 – A new type pf computer aided detection (CAD) software has received the CE Mark in Europe. Parascript, obtained CE Mark for its AccuDetect CAD software after recently receiving it for the AccuDetect Galileo CAD software.
October 22, 2010 – To help clinicians better understand meaningful use in imaging, TeraMedica has created the Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) University online educational program.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
P3T PA (pulmonary angiography), from Medrad, is a personalized contrast-dosing software that increases the percentage of ...
A private cloud strategy, by EMC, lets healthcare providers simply and efficiently utilize information to make more ...
Carestream’s Mammography Workstation is a vendor-neutral, multi-modality breast imaging workstation and flexible digital ...
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
The eHealth Portal service, by Carestream Health, equips healthcare providers that use the company’s remotely hosted ...
Bracco offers contrast imaging agents for computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), angiography and ...
MediCal QAWeb, by Barco, is the first online service for high-grade quality assurance (QA). The all-inclusive secured ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
The ProScribe, by Barco, is an advanced mobile point-of-care display for physicians and nurses who need to stay ...
The CliniScape mobile clinical assistant, by Barco, enables nurses and physicians to make more informed clinical ...
October 27, 2010 – A new mammography system upgrade includes advanced imaging processing software and new premium screens that employ structured needle phosphor technology. The upgrade is available on Carestream Health’s computed radiography (CR)-based mammography systems.
October 27, 2010 – A new distribution agreement has been signed allowing Varian Medical Systems to offer Vision RT’s motion management products to its customers. The two companies have been working in collaboration to facilitate the interoperability between their respective products.
October 27, 2010 – A new digital silicon photomultiplier technology has been developed with applications in both X-ray and nuclear imaging. Philips developed the technology by scaling a single-pixel sensor to a fully integrated 64-pixel sensor with a sensing surface of more than 10 square centimeters.
An all-inclusive service, information and workflow enhancement is now available exclusively on Konica Minolta’s ImagePilot. Informity includes off-site archive and disaster recovery, Web-based collaboration tools for sharing images with referring clinicians and automated updates and virus protection.
An update to the Centricity PACS, version 3.2, by GE Healthcare, offers many features that were either requested by ...
GE Healthcare's Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction (ASiR) technique can help reduce CT dose by up to 50 ...
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