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It’s old school that bone and ultrasound don’t mix. And it makes sense. Sonography is all about echoes, and what reflects sound better than bone? But modern ultrasound has entered a gray area, where such clear-cut distinctions no longer apply. Nothing less than a complete revamping of the modality is needed to change the fact that ultrasound has a tough time penetrating bone. But clinicians are finding that visualizing the outer surface of bony structures and the tissue surrounding them may be enough.
September 09, 2011 
News
September 9, 2011 — GE Healthcare announced it has received commitments from more than 100 customers globally for its Alcyone technology. The Alcyone is a nuclear cardiology platform designed to help facilitate workflow efficiency and dose management while maintaining image quality. It combines cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors, focused pinhole collimation, stationary data acquisition and 3-D reconstruction.
September 09, 2011 
Case Study
University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital and Clinics is a 471-bed facility that ranks among the finest academic medical centers in the United States. It is recognized as a national leader in several fields. To facilitate better information sharing among practitioners, the facility needed to import JPEG images from digital cameras and other video sources.
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Synergy Health is one of the highest volume centers in the world, performing more than 30 venous procedures a day. It also is one of the only groups in the world to combine the Haacke protocol MRI/MRV with the treatment of CCSVI, thereby providing better care for patients. The initial cornerstone in the diagnosis and treatment of CCSVI is the pre-procedure imaging.
September 09, 2011 Case Study
Dr. Lyle Harrison is no stranger to the challenges of delivering healthcare to patients in rural markets. Since 1997, he has been living and providing radiation oncology services in the MonDak region of eastern Montana and western North Dakota. One of his biggest frustrations was not being able to provide radiation services to every patient he saw because of limitations in the technology and expertise available. As a result, many of his patients were forced to travel hundreds of miles to bigger cities where they could get the treatment they needed.
September 09, 2011 
Case Study
Frederick Memorial Hospital (FMH) was the first healthcare provider in Frederick County, Maryland, to offer digital mammography with the addition of Hologic Selenia digital mammography. In 2010, FMH once again partnered with Hologic for breast biopsy technology at its state-of-the-art women’s center – a partnership that has led to greater patient comfort and efficiency without sacrificing diagnostic confidence.
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Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
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Federal incentive programs have been underway for just over a year to encourage adoption of electronic health records (EHR), but how this relates to radiology is not much clearer now than at the programs’ start. Part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the programs offer Medicare/Medicaid incentives to eligible professionals and eligible hospitals for adopting certified EHR technology and utilizing that technology in a meaningful way.
September 09, 2011 
Feature | Mary Beth Nevulis
Breast imaging centers, like many other users of imaging systems, are jumping feet-first into digital technology. The conversion process from film to digital doesn’t have to be difficult, and digital systems offer many benefits to both users and patients, from improved workflow and reduced storage space requirements, to superior image quality.
September 09, 2011 
Feature | Dave Fornell
Several positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents are being developed to visualize Alzheimer’s disease in the living brain to accurately diagnose patients and develop effective treatments. The only way to confirm the presence of the disease currently is by examining post-mortem samples of the patient’s brain. Experts predict these agents may soon receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance.
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Radiation oncologists and most clinicians involved in the field prefer to spend their time treating patients, not sitting in front of a computer. Yet today more than ever, they are being tasked with spending precious time entering data and maintaining patient records.
September 09, 2011 
Feature | Don Fallati
Speech recognition has achieved strong adoption in radiology over the past several years, as many hospitals and groups have sought to preserve the convenience and high value of narrative dictation while simultaneously streamlining their production process. The benefits have been clear and centered on improvements in reporting efficiency, namely, substantial report turnaround time reduction, cost savings and integration with picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) workflow.
September 09, 2011 Feature | David Shepard, M.D., Director of Medical
In radiation therapy, the use of rotational beam delivery provides greater flexibility in shaping radiation dose distributions. When rotational delivery is combined with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), highly conformal dose distributions can be achieved with a rapid falloff in radiation damage outside of the target.
September 09, 2011 Sponsored Content
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Feature | V. Elayne Arterbery, M.D., MHSA
Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) for breast cancer is emerging as a newer alternative to whole-breast radiation therapy and accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI).
September 09, 2011 Feature | David Fisher
Since the advent of computed tomography (CT) scans in the early 1970s, this technology has become increasingly critical to the standards of care. Over the same time, manufacturers have continuously delivered innovative advances to CT technology, including reductions in medical radiation, while maintaining crisp, clear images.
September 09, 2011 Feature | Serge Tobias, M.D.
Estimates say up to 75 percent of patients with a pacemaker will need magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) over the course of their lifetime. Yet as the industry has long been aware, MRIs can cause a number of adverse reactions when conducted on patients with a pacemaker.
September 08, 2011 
Feature | Helen Kuhl
America’s growing girth is a challenge for radiation technologists tasked with positioning patients in imaging systems designed for smaller-sized individuals. Systems manufacturers have worked to develop units to accommodate larger patients, creating couchtops that hold more weight and overcoming technological obstacles to make bores wider and still obtain a high-quality image, both in computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) units.
September 08, 2011 
Feature | Abraham H. Dachman, M.D., FACR
As an abdominal radiologist, I have integrated the advances of virtual colonoscopy (VC) research into our daily clinical practice. I would like to describe some of those experiences and clinical advances regarding the important topic of colorectal cancer screening using VC.
September 08, 2011 
News
September 8, 2011 — Standex Electronics will feature custom and planar transformers, custom electronic components and magnetic reed switches – including the world’s smallest – for OEM medical imaging devices at RSNA 2011, Nov. 27 – Dec. 2 in Chicago.
September 08, 2011 
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September 8, 2011 — EVOCS has released a cloud-based medical image sharing platform to enhance image management, distribution and data exchanges between referring physicians and hospitals, regardless of geographical location. Fysicon was one of the first to create this picture archive solution and has since gone on to control 85 percent of the Dutch market. More than 60 million images have been exchanged via the EVOCS image sharing technology.
September 08, 2011 
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September 8, 2011 — A study in the journal Neurology International reveals a potentially treatable blood vessel abnormality in the brain may be the cause of Parkinson’s disease in some patients. A team of physicians and neuroscientists at Pittsburgh’s Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) conducted the study.
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