GE Healthcare announced Signa Premier, a new wide bore 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, is now available for sale in the United States. Signa Premier is the result of a four-year collaboration with the National Football League (NFL) and research institutions around the world working...
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Here are several updates in medical imaging contrast media agents.
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Researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have produced the first direct evidence that parts of our brains implicated in mental disorders may be shaped by a “residual echo” from our ancient past. The more a person’s genome carries genetic vestiges of Neanderthals, the more...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device specifically for neonatal brain and head imaging in neonatal intensive care units (NICU).
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Rami Doukky, M.D., system chair, Division of Cardiology, professor of medicine, Cook County Health and Hospitals System, Chicago, discusses the new CMS requirements for clinical decision support (CDS) appropriate use criteria (AUC) documentation in cardiac imaging starting on Jan. 1, 2018.
News | Imaging | August 17, 2017
August 17, 2017 — Houston Methodist Hospital and Siemens Healthineers have entered into a multi-year agreement to...
Technology | Advanced Visualization | August 16, 2017
August 16, 2017 — Carestream Health recently introduced new...
News | Contrast Media | August 15, 2017
August 15, 2017 — The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) has provided new guidance in...
Example images for a control participant , a deletion carrier, and a duplication carrier. In the sagittal image of the deletion carrier, the thick corpus callosum, dens and craniocervical abnormality, and cerebellar ectopia are shown. For the duplication carrier, the sagittal image shows the thin corpus callosum and the axial image shows the increased ventricle size and decreased white matter volume. Image courtesy of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
News | Neuro Imaging | August 09, 2017
August 9, 2017 — In the first major study of its kind, researchers using magnetic...
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | August 07, 2017
August 7, 2017 — Profound Medical Corp. recently announced that all closing conditions have been satisfied and it...
News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) | August 07, 2017
August 7, 2017 — ViewRay Inc. announced that several presentations of early clinical experience with its MRIdian...
Technology | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | August 04, 2017
August 4, 2017 — GE Healthcare announced Signa Premier, a new wide bore 3.0T...
News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) | July 31, 2017
July 31, 2017 — Elekta’s ...
NIH-funded scientists have discovered that Parkinson’s disease increases the amount of “free” water in a particular brain area. Image courtesy of David Vaillancourt, Ph.D., University of Florida.
News | Neuro Imaging | July 31, 2017
Scientists at the University of Florida have discovered a new method of observing the brain changes caused by...
Feature | Contrast Media | July 28, 2017 | By Dave Fornell
Here are several updates in medical imaging ...
Technology | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | July 27, 2017
July 27, 2017 — CorTechs Labs recently announced that Hitachi 1.2T Oasis, 1.5T Echelon Oval and 3.0T Trillium Oval...
MRI data shows (left) areas of the skull preferentially affected by the amount of Neanderthal-derived DNA and (right) areas of the brain’s visual system in which Neanderthal gene variants influenced cortex folding (red) and gray matter volume (yellow). Image courtesy of Michael Gregory, M.D., NIMH Section on Integrative Neuroimaging
News | Neuro Imaging | July 26, 2017
July 26, 2017 — Researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have produced the first direct...
News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) | July 25, 2017
July 25, 2017 — ViewRay Inc. announced recently that the first cancer patients have been treated using the company's...
Technology | Pediatric Imaging | July 21, 2017
July 21, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the first...
News | Biopsy Systems | July 17, 2017
July 17, 2017 — Radiologists from Synergy Radiology Associates (SRA) in Houston are using the power of 3-D medical...
News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) | July 13, 2017
July 13, 2017 — Elekta and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have initiated installation of Elekta’s MR-linac, an...
News | Neuro Imaging | July 11, 2017
July 11, 2017 — Changes in the visual systems of newly diagnosed Parkinson’s disease patients may provide important...
News | Neuro Imaging | July 07, 2017
July 7, 2017 — Josh Buckholtz, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Harvard University, is the senior author...
News | Clinical Decision Support | July 06, 2017
July 6, 2017 — Radiologists can improve their consistency of interpreting and reporting...
