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 ...
May 2, 2017 — A new study published in the American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR) compares the MAGiC (Magnetic ...
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
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.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
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.
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
April 28, 2017 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) announced the Dosimetry Americas division has recently partnered with ...
April 28, 2017 — Researchers at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) have led the ...
Source-Ray Inc. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) approval for its new X-ray unit, the model UC-5000. The UC-5000 is a fully direct-digital portable turnkey system for the urgent care market.
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
David Wolinsky, M.D., director of nuclear cardiology at Cleveland Clinic Florida and past-president of the American ...
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, N.H., installed Toshiba Medical’s Infinix-i Sky + angiography system in its endovascular hybrid operating room (OR). Wentworth-Douglass is using the system to diagnose and treat a wide range of vascular disorders, such as aneurysms and peripheral vascular disease.
The vacancy rate for radiographers increased to 4.2 percent in 2017, according to the latest American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Radiologic Sciences Staffing and Workplace Survey.
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. announced its participation as a sponsor of the Pre-Conference Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) Workshop at the 2017 Society of Breast Imaging (SBI)/American College of Radiology (ACR) Breast Imaging Symposium, April 6-9 in Los Angeles. The workshop provided eight hours of initial training in DBT as required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and attendees had the opportunity to review and report cases on individual DBT workstations, such as Konica Minolta’s Exa Mammo.
GE Healthcare will showcase Signa Premier, its U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k)-pending, wide bore 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system at the 25th International Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (ISMRM) Annual Meeting, April 22-27 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Radiologists may not consider imaging systems to be at high risk of cyber attack. But it is for exactly this reason that radiologists must be especially careful.
Samsung announces that the GC70 Digital Radiography (DR) system received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the U.S. market.
Jason P. Sheehan, M.D., Ph.D., FAANS, winner of the Leksell Radiosurgery Award, presented his research on stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in patients with nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas during the 2017 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Scientific Meeting, April 22-26 in Los Angeles.
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