Carestream Health recently introduced SmartGrid software that can reduce the damaging effects of scatter radiation in a radiographic image and help eliminate the need for an anti-scatter grid. This optional capability is available for use with Carestream’s portable and room-based DRX imaging systems (see video link), as well as its DRX-1 retrofit system that converts computed radiography systems to digital radiography.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly approved the American Health Care Act, the legislation designed by House Republican leadership and backed by President Donald Trump to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.
May 3, 2017 — Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a novel nanodiamond-based ...
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
May 3, 2017 — Spok Inc. recently released the second part of the company's annual mobility in healthcare survey. Spok ...
Epsilon Imaging Inc. announced a research study using EchoInsight was presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2017 Annual Scientific Session and Expo conference from a team at Northwestern University.
MR Solutions won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade in late April. These awards are announced on the Queen’s birthday, April 21, and are one of the U.K.’s highest accolades recognizing business achievement. Last year MR Solutions won the Queen’s Award for Innovation.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
Kidney cancer patients may soon have an alternative to traditional treatments, according to new research at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Kidney Cancer Program of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Kim A. Williams, Sr., M.D., chief of cardiology at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago and former president of both ...
The bring your own device (BYOD) trend offers unprecedented flexibility in radiology. Mobile devices, tuned to suit the user, display medical images anywhere at a moment's notice. There are several advantages to BYODs.
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
A shorter course of radiation therapy given to breast cancer patients following mastectomy is safe and effective and cuts treatment time in half. That is according to data from a phase II clinical trial conducted by Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey investigators and other colleagues who examined a hypofractionated regimen given over three weeks versus the traditional six week course of treatment. The work appears in the current online edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
In a first-ever molecular drug-imaging study in children, researchers in The Netherlands used whole-body positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans to determine whether bevacizumab (Avastin) treatment of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) in children is likely to be effective. The study is featured in the May 2017 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
May 2, 2017 — Men need more frequent lung cancer screening than women, according to research presented at the European ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
May 2, 2017 — A new study published in the American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR) compares the MAGiC (Magnetic ...
Mach7 offers an enterprise imaging platform built around neutrality. The platform is more than just a VNA. Eric Rice, chief technology officer, discusses the importance of workflow protocols.
The Carle health system recently purchased two Carestream DRX-Evolution Plus and two Carestream DRX-Ascend systems for its regional care hospital in Urbana, Ill., as well as outpatient centers in Champaign, Urbana and Danville, Ill.
iCAD Inc. announced the first early-stage breast cancer patient was treated in Australia with intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) using the Xoft Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy (eBx) System. The patient was treated at Monash Cancer Centre, a partnership between Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Monash Health, in Melbourne, Australia.
May 1, 2017 — Breast cancers detected by mammography screening do not spontaneously disappear or regress if left ...
April 28, 2017 — IBA announced the delivery and rigging of three Proteus One treatment rooms in less than a week at ...
Nottingham City Hospital in the United Kingdom has chosen RayStation as the new treatment planning system for its radiation therapy department. The department treats patients using Elekta linacs (linear accelerators) and an Accuray TomoTherapy system.
April 28, 2017 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) announced the Dosimetry Americas division has recently partnered with ...
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