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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Editor's note: in celebration of the International Day of Radiology on November 8, which will also begin ITN's extensive coverage of RSNA,...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Precision can have an enormous impact on patients.
From diagnosis to patient monitoring (see “How Digital PET/CT Can Improve Clinical Care”), from...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
We can debate causality — whether a series of events makes others occur; if events just “happen;” or if conditions made their happening inevitable....
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
Tomorrow’s Radiology Today. This is the theme for the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) 104th meeting and scientific assembly, and this...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
There’s a new modality in radiology, one that takes advantage of digital radiography (DR) and reflects the tenets of value-based medicine — low cost...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Efficiency and effectiveness are inseparable in clinical medicine. Digital PET addresses them both. The key is the detector built into Philips...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Efficiency is the root of value-based medicine. Efficiency boosts productivity, as it lowers cost and increases patient comfort. It accomplishes this...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Analog is approximate. Digital is specific. Therein lies the fundamental difference between digital PET and its analog cousin.
We see this difference...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
PET/CT can be indispensible as a diagnostic and prognostic tool; in the assessment of patient response to therapy and cancer recurrence; even in the...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Like low-hanging cyber fruit, hospitals are ripe for plucking. And hackers have already started the harvest.
A 12-month analysis of cyberattacks by...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
According to BreastCancer.org, an estimated 266,120 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2018, along with...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Like the industrial revolution, which led to wrenching changes in society (for example, factory robotics and automatic pinsetters at the ends of...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
In July, the ITN team attended the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 2018 meeting. And once again, artificial intelligence (AI)...
Dave Fornell, ITN Editor
I attended the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 2018 meeting in late July and came back with many takeaways.
Artificial...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Faith is not based on evidence. Trust is.
Faith comes from an innate need to believe. Trust grows from a pattern of actions.
And yet — in both faith...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
According to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s new industry report, the “Medical Imaging Market: Global Industry Analysis, Trends, Market Size and Forecasts...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
What something does is more important than what it is. This is common knowledge in consumer electronics.
Seventeen years ago, Steve Jobs sold the...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
Imaging Technology News (ITN) is expanding its online conference coverage to help you benefit from information you may normally not have access to....
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
The teenager's chest was caved in. The underlying congenital flaw had gotten so bad that the sternum was almost pressing against the spine. Surgery...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
We are a nation in search of simple solutions. We want silver bullets to slay whatever ails us. Value-based medicine is one of those bullets.
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