vRad (Virtual Radiologic) announced that it ranked No. 19 on 2016’s InformationWeek Elite 100, a list of top business-technology innovators in the United States.
New Mayo Clinic research suggests that many pancreatic cancer patients whose tumors have grown around the pancreas to encompass critical blood vessels are candidates for surgery, even though conventional wisdom has suggested otherwise.
Positron emission tomography (PET) is used commonly in the diagnosis of suspected lung cancer. Computed bioconductance (CB) id being investigated as a non-invasive way to predict whether an suspicious abnormality in the lung is benign or malignant. In a new study, researchers found that CB combined with PET before biopsy of suspicious lesions could improve diagnostic effectiveness of potentially cancerous lesions detected by computed tomography (CT) scan.
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
In a new report, Ampronix looks at the rapid expansion of simulated procedures into medical education, including programs recently implemented for Baylor College and Tuoro University System.
Scientists are developing a new photonics device that listens to light and could be capable of detecting skin cancer and other diseases more accurately than ever before, eliminating the need for unnecessary and invasive biopsies.
No one really knows how epiphanies come to be. Those moments of enlightenment, slivers in time, when the curtains are thrown back and there, revealed, is the hardly expected.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
Researchers at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, have combined a laboratory ultrasound technique with the commercially-available chemotherapy compound Gemcitabine to increase the porosity of pancreatic cells with microbubbles.
To make a good framework for filling in missing bone, mix at least 30 percent pulverized natural bone with some special man-made plastic and create the needed shape with a 3-D printer. That’s the recipe for success reported by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University in a paper published online in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering.
Ikonopedia announced that it has reached an agreement to host the first-ever Web-based version of the Tyrer-Cuzick Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool.
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
Science fiction offers a lot of ideas for creating new body parts on demand, and the advancement of 3-D printing (also ...
A new technique for cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging improves accuracy by removing patients' need to breathe, reveals research presented at EuroCMR 2016.
May 24, 2016 — Aspyra LLC announced that version 7.1 of its AccessNET picture archiving and communication system (PACS) ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
Carestream representatives will describe the benefits of its Carestream OnSight 3-D Extremity System at the American Association of Orthopedic Executives conference, June 9-12 in San Francisco.
First-in-human data presented at EuroPCR 2016 demonstrate that hemodynamic data from HeartFlow Inc. may help predict which coronary plaques have the potential to rupture.
May 23, 2016 — Mobius Medical Systems announced today they have received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug ...
Avantis Medical Systems Inc. announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for its Third Eye Panoramic device for use as a resposable product for colonoscopies.
Endra Inc. announced that it has signed a global collaboration agreement with GE Healthcare to develop Endra's Thermo Acoustic Enhanced UltraSound (TAEUS).
May 23, 2016 — Novarad has been working with a Provo, Utah, imaging center to create specialized processing software for ...
May 23, 2016 — The new ICE-T (Inpatient Cost Evaluation Tool) enables radiology practices and hospitals to compare ...
Registration opened this week for the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO) 58th Annual Meeting, Sept. 25-28 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
May 25, 2016 