The lag between news and peer-review last week dragged radiology back into the quagmire of concern about patient ...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
It was set a decade ago, a battle between the upstart and the champ. It wasn’t the first time. The standard bearer for ...
May 17, 2012
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
For all the talk about reducing dose, you’d think doing so would require exotic tools. Yet, reduced dose is not only ...
May 04, 2012
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Over the past several years, the radiology community has taken it on the chin with reimbursement cuts to reports of ...
April 20, 2012
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Increasingly in this country, diagnostic ultrasound is being used to advance a political agenda. Last month the Virginia ...
April 04, 2012
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
It’s been nearly a decade since vendors first floated the idea of 3T as the new clinical benchmark in magnetic resonance ...
March 23, 2012
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Radiology has always played outside the limelight, its value underappreciated, its contribution not fully recognized. It ...
March 19, 2012
Dave Fornell, ITN Editor
By Dave Fornell, DAIC Editor With increasing concern about radiation dose levels in radiology, I wanted to share my ...
March 16, 2012
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Eastman Kodak was slain by its own sword. But it was pride that drove the blade, fueled by the mistaken belief that it ...
February 16, 2012
Sean Reilly, ITN Publisher
Murphy's Law... One day before this year's Super Bowl, my 10-year-old TV gave up the ghost. Forced to go emergency ...
February 13, 2012
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Fifteen years ago, I was ready to bet the farm that X-ray, with its hundreds of thousands of systems installed worldwide ...
January 20, 2012
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Think oval. That’s what you’re doing if you are Hitachi Medical. The company came out with a novel design for high-end ...
January 05, 2012
Dave Fornell, ITN Editor
Vendors showcase the latest medical imaging technological advances each year during the annual Radiological Society of ...
December 20, 2011
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
By Greg Freiherr As the dose wars in computed tomography (CT) draw to a close, a new one approaches, this one in ...
December 15, 2011
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
One-click this and drop-in that is my kind of technology. While I took satisfaction in mastering DOS, for example ...
December 01, 2011
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Computed tomography (CT) is caught in the throes of an uneasy peace. The war days, when the big four – Toshiba, Siemens ...
November 17, 2011
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
My least favorite celebration of the year ended October 31 without (real) bloodshed and with all of my body parts, and ...
November 02, 2011
Helen Kuhl, ITN Editor
We Americans like to celebrate a lot, giving special recognition to all sorts of things that are near and dear to our ...
October 27, 2011
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Minimizing X-ray dose has driven the global imaging community to develop technologies that today can cut patient dose ...
October 20, 2011
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
When it comes to medical imaging, pick any part of the body other than the female breast and the FDA pays little notice ...
October 06, 2011