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.
It is no surprise that during the past several years, the number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed ...
For most of us, handheld devices put the “fun” in functional. In the medical world, these tools do much more — they help save lives.
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
When mechanical ventilation is initiated for surgical and acute-unit patients, protecting the fragile lungs while ...
Editor’s Note: This is the result of a “virtual” roundtable discussion on image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) with Drs ...
Digital imaging is now ubiquitous in medicine. Contemporary imaging modalities are generating an ever-increasing amount ...
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
Few medical devices are credited with preventing death and are used so rarely as automated external defibrillators (AEDs ...
Chest pain is a common complaint among ED patients, yet failure to diagnose acute myocardial infarction in the trauma ...
ACT: What are some of the scenarios — decisions or investments — in which a hospital might want to consider doing a ...
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
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.
Anyone who remembers – or for that matter, still uses – single-slice CT scanners can appreciate the dramatic ...
About 10 years ago a close friend received some very bad news, but, oddly, she was happy about it. My friend was ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
Imagine for a moment, if something along these lines actually had happened. Back in the early 1990s when the debut of ...
One of the most prominent figures in nuclear medicine in the last half-century is Dr. Henry Wagner of Johns Hopkins ...
The Eclipse Powered System is “Power Made Easy” due to its automation and simplicity. The system has been engineered ...
The Harmony V Keyless Entry (push-button) cart features a programmable automatic re-lock and a manual key override. The ...
Along with the already established S2 20-inch surgery light, the new S1 surgery “satellite” and the new P1 video camera ...
Nucletron Oncentra ConeBeam now offers clinicians the ability to acquire a large volume of multislice CT data on a ...
The new AIM-100 Minor Surgery Light from Burton Medical provides illumination and unparalleled aesthetics. With a Color ...
Horizon Rad Station eJacket from McKesson enables quick access to exam results using a Web browser. It provides ...
June 22, 2006 