October 6, 2008 - Quantum Medical Imaging has completed an installation of their DiRex Digital System, which includes a ...
Automated workflow enhancements and clinical applications for the Aquilion CT line are designed to reduce patient radiation dose, provide faster diagnosis and maximize patient comfort.
Over the past year, headlines across industry and consumer media have highlighted FDA warnings on the dangers of gadolinium-based contrast agents. To date, it has become common knowledge and a FDA black box warning that gadolinium-based agents run the risk of causing Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis or Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy (NSF/NFD).
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
October 3, 2008 – 23andMe Inc. is embarking on a worldwide effort to assemble the largest cohort of women whose lives ...
This case is a routine coronary CTA with the focus on the coronary arteries. The patient was a middle-aged male with a family history of coronary artery disease, moderate risk profile and atypical chest pain. The EKG did not indicate myocardial ischemia and there was no enzyme leak.
Advances in molecular imaging, specifically through the discovery of new molecular imaging agents and developments in the technologies that enable their visualization have opened up new possibilities for the early detection of disease as well as personalized medicine.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
In this retrospectively gated full thoracic CT study, the examination was performed using the LightSpeed VCT 64 system with 0.625 mm detector collimation, retrospective cardiac gating and mono-sector reconstruction. The patient received three 5 mg injections of Metoprolol intravenously for cardiac rate control. Heart rate during acquisition was 64 to 65 BPM.
October 3, 2008 - Zotec Partners said Atlantic Medical Imaging (AMI) has licensed the company’s Electronic Billing ...
Anthro's Carl’s Table (Model CT08) is advanced radiology furniture for reading soft copy and for teleradiology applications.
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
ScImage provides a mammography workflow solution that features MQSA-compliant archiving, patient letter creation for various exam statuses and statistical reporting for various patient procedure statuses. It delivers the required tools to track all positive and incomplete mammography exams to completion.
The definition of core requirements for the different PACS system administrator (SA) jobs, ranging from associates to interface analyst, administrator and manager, and corresponding exams has definitely encouraged many professionals to start enhancing their skills and filling in the gaps, whether in the IT or clinical domain or both.
Two new FUJIFILM Computed Radiography (FCR) systems – FCR XL-2 and FCR XC-2 – are customized to meet the imaging needs ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
INFINITT North America has developed a Tele-RIS module that enables radiology reading services to provide advanced ...
October 1, 2008 – TomoTherapy Inc. maker of the Hi·Art treatment system for advanced radiation therapy, today announced ...
The P-Series of LCDs will consist of a 2 megapixel monochrome and high-bright color, a 3 megapixel monochrome and high-bright color and a 5 megapixel monochrome LCD for mammography.
ONI Medical Systems' new MSK Extreme 1.5T MRI is dedicated to musculoskeletal imaging, including joints and soft tissue of the extremities. It’s reportedly the most powerful 1.5T MRI with 70 mT/m gradient strength at 200 T/m/s slew rate.
GE Healthcare launched a new ultrasound system for radiology and vascular applications, the LOGIQ E9, which fuses ...
Carestream Health Inc. released reportedly the first wireless DR detector that is the size of a standard cassette and ...
A combined RIS/PACS solution for the North American market from Sectra is geared toward customers who have demands to deliver radiology services across several institutions and/or communicate between several healthcare providers.
Since its clinical adoption in the early 1990s, anesthesia agent monitoring has evolved significantly from standalone units to modules that are used in multiparameter monitoring systems. According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), over 40 million anesthetics are delivered each year in the United States, irrespective of the care setting.
October 05, 2008 