Radiologists who graduated from medical school after 1940 do not face an increased risk of dying from radiation-related causes like cancer, according to a new study appearing online in the journal Radiology.
July 22, 2016 — Research supported by the National Institutes of Health has identified brain patterns in humans that ...
A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute report discusses the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and its implications for radiology.
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
July 21, 2016 — Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. announced the expansion of its Monoblock series of X-ray sources ...
July 21, 2016 — PTW New York announced it will display its Beamscan technology and the latest advancements in radiation ...
July 21, 2016 — Agfa HealthCare announced it has received Frost & Sullivan’s 2016 North American Product Leadership ...
While most women understand the importance of health screenings, an estimated 72 million have missed or postponed a ...
The performance, feature and scalability gap between today’s enterprise viewers cannot be understated. Nearly all ...
A new paper published in the June issue of Computer cautions that while mobile health (mHealth) is poised for a boom, greater privacy and security measures are needed to realize the full benefits of the technology.
July 20, 2016 — A novel study has found a simple pre-operative echocardiographic measurement of the amount of torsion of ...
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
Researchers in the Netherlands have coupled machine learning methods with a special magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that measures the perfusion of blood throughout the brain to detect early forms of dementia. The study was published online in the journal Radiology.
Bringing a wheelchair into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan room too soon nearly cost a family $300,000 when the chair flew across the room and became attached to the machine at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital.
At the end of June, experts from three different medical societies released a new guideline to help optimize lifetime management of patients with transposition of the great arteries, a congenital heart defect, both before and after surgical intervention.
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SonoCiné recently unveiled new 3-D whole breast multiplanar reconstruction software to improve early detection of breast cancer. This new software package augments SonoCiné’s existing Automated Whole Breast Ultrasound (AWBUS) high-resolution transverse imaging technology.
July 20, 2016 — During the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2016 general closing session, James J ...
Making healthcare more objective and precise promises to increase efficiency and reduce costs — the key ingredients of value medicine.
In a new study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, neuroscientists from the University of Chicago show that white matter in a region of the brain called the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) has less integrity and density in people with intermittent explosive disorder (IED) than in healthy individuals and those with other psychiatric disorders.
July 19, 2016 — Siemens Healthineers recently introduced an expanded Services portfolio, known as Enterprise Services ...
At SIIM 2016, itnTV caught up with opening keynote speaker and SIIM treasurer Rasu B. Shrestha, M.D., MBA, Chief Innovation Officer, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Executive Vice President, UPMC Enterprises, to discuss the dynamic changes that imaging is facing today.
An updated joint American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) imaging guidelines and Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) procedure standard for positron emission tomography (PET) nuclear cardiology procedures has been published in the 2016 September issue of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.
New this year is the SIIM Innovation Challenge, which offered a prize of $10,000 to the winning team to help support innovation exploration and development to raise awareness and engagement in innovation efforts that will help shape the present and future of imaging informatics.