GE Healthcare has received clearance from the FDA for the new wide bore computed tomography (CT) system. This new ...
CardiArc recently released a cardiac SPECT system with reportedly twice the resolution of existing devices designed to ...
The Mega Power Electrosurgical Generator features an advanced cutting effect (ACE) mode and Constant Control Technology ...
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
MapCHECK version 3.1 is now available. Version 3.1 adds the ability to print reports directly to a PDF file for data ...
The Matrox MED4mp display controller board was rolled out at SCAR 2006, bringing more of its Matrox MED Series software ...
Mary Washington Hospital (MWH), part of MediCorp Health Systems in Fredericksburg, VA, has been the area’s premier ...
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
Anyone who remembers – or for that matter, still uses – single-slice CT scanners can appreciate the dramatic ...
All hospitals today face challenges, but none comes close to matching the recent experiences of Louisiana hospitals ...
One of the most prominent figures in nuclear medicine in the last half-century is Dr. Henry Wagner of Johns Hopkins ...
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
It is no surprise that during the past several years, the number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed ...
When mechanical ventilation is initiated for surgical and acute-unit patients, protecting the fragile lungs while ...
Acquiring used equipment carries with it certain stereotypes that span the spectrum of good to bad. Facilities that ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
Editor’s Note: This is the result of a “virtual” roundtable discussion on image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) with Drs ...
A 30-year-old woman arrives in the emergency room with “abdominal cramping and vaginal bleeding. A physical examination ...
Few medical devices are credited with preventing death and are used so rarely as automated external defibrillators (AEDs ...
ACT: What are some of the scenarios — decisions or investments — in which a hospital might want to consider doing a ...
Not too long ago, the capability of precisely directing and guiding a potent beam of radiation to eradicate a cancerous tumor without harming the healthy tissue around it was a pipe dream. Fodder for the imagination and science fiction.
Talk to the purveyors and supporters of digital radiography (DR) and you’ll hear that it’s the wave of the future and ultimately where the technology is headed – arguably replacing its earlier generation sibling, computed radiography (CR). However, raise that prospect with the CR crowd and you’ll likely hear something dramatically different.
About 10 years ago a close friend received some very bad news, but, oddly, she was happy about it. My friend was ...
For most of us, handheld devices put the “fun” in functional. In the medical world, these tools do much more — they help save lives.
June 25, 2006 