Ultrasound Imaging
Ultrasound uses sound waves to create images. This section includes breast ultrasound, echocardiography (echo), transthoracic echo (TTE), transesophageal echo (TEE), echo contrast, transducers, ultrasound software and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).
U.S. Army Spc. Jonathon Hyde and Spc. Casymn Harrison from the 1434th Engineer Company, Grayling, Mich., Michigan National Guard, prepare patient rooms at TCF Regional Care Center in Detroit in advance of receiving COVID-19 patients, April 9, 2020. The TCF Center in Detroit has been converted into a 970-bed alternative care facility for COVID-19 patients by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Michigan National Guard. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Scott Thompson)
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | April 15, 2020 | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane and Dave Fornell
In an effort to keep the imaging field updated on the latest information being released on coronavirus (COVID-19), the...
News | Ultrasound Imaging | April 14, 2020
April 14, 2020 — CAE Healthcare announced a new product suite engineered to provide hands-on foundational training to...
Sonogram taken under rib cage shows liver (grey) with curved diaphragm-lung border (white). Arrows point to vertical B lines (white) demonstrating diseased lung tissue. The more B lines the worse the disease. Healing is measured by reduction in the number of B lines.
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | April 06, 2020
April 6, 2020 — Robert L. Bard, M.D., NYC imaging specialist collaborates with an international group of medical...
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Surgical ultrasound probes extend the capability of Hitachi’s Arietta 70 system. Each probe can be sterilized to allow safe scanning inside the human body. Picture courtesy of Hitachi Healthcare Americas
Blog | Radiology Imaging | August 30, 2019
The clinical needs of those who live in rural America and small communities are both simple and complex. A physician...
Image courtesy of Insightec
Feature | Ultrasound Imaging | April 02, 2020 | By Katie Caron
An estimated 44 million people worldwide are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of...
Esaote won a tender launched by Consip on behalf of Civil Protection for the distribution of diagnostic equipment in Italy to face COVID-19 emergency.
News | Ultrasound Imaging | April 02, 2020
April 2, 2020 — Esaote, an Italian company among the world leaders in the field of medical diagnostic imaging systems,...
Videos | Ultrasound Imaging | March 20, 2020
Interview with Mike Stone, M.D., an emergency physician at Northwest Acute Care Specialists in Portland, Ore., director...
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One of several 3-D printed models at Stratasys booth during RSNA 2018.
Blog | RSNA | November 27, 2018
For medical practice to advance, efforts to make this practice more efficient must not come at the expense of accuracy...
News | Artificial Intelligence | March 05, 2020
March 5, 2020 — Caption Health, a medical AI company, announced that its flagship product, Caption AI, the first AI-...
Emagine Solutions Technology's VistaScan portable ultrasound enables doctors to enhance patient care. Clinicians can diagnose in moments, saving time and lives at a fraction of the cost of a cart ultrasound machine. Photo credit: Tech Parks Arizona
News | Ultrasound Imaging | February 27, 2020
February 27, 2020 — Emagine Solutions Technology, an award-winning medical software device company located in Tucson,...
News | Ultrasound Imaging | February 24, 2020
February 24, 2020 — Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. announces a newly formed partnership with RegenLab USA LLC...
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Breast image captured with the Philips EPIQ ultrasound system shows a small cyst with a microcalcification. Image courtesy of Philips
Blog | Ultrasound Imaging | December 05, 2016
Value-based medicine is reshaping the landscape of medical practice. In this new environment, the key to success is...
The Caption Guidance software uses artificial intelligence to guide users to get optimal cardiac ultrasound images in a point of care ultrasound (POCUS) setting.
News | Artificial Intelligence | February 13, 2020
February 13, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared software to assist medical professionals in the...
73-year-old man with papillary carcinoma of left lobe of thyroid. Screen shot shows example of thyroid nodule annotation (segmentation and TI-RADS annotation) performed on ultrasound image in longitudinal projection with electronic Physician Annotation Device software (Stanford Medicine Radiology). Radiologists performed nodule segmentation by selecting points (red) on nodule outline (green), while controlling smoothing of outline polygon by means of spline interpolation.
News | Ultrasound Imaging | January 30, 2020
January 30, 2020 — According to an article published ahead-of-print in the April issue of the American Journal of...
This is a lung X-ray reviewed automatically by artificial intelligence (AI) to identify a collapsed lung (pneumothorax) in the color coded area. This AI app from Lunit is awaiting final FDA review and in planned to be integrated into several vendors' mobile digital radiography (DR) systems. Fujifilm showed this software integrated as a work-in-progress into its mobile X-ray system at RSNA 2019. GE Healthcare has its own version of this software for its mobile r=ray systems that gained FDA in 2019.
Feature | RSNA | January 20, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
Here are images of some of the newest new medical imaging technologies displayed on the expo floor at the Radiological...
Videos | RSNA | January 13, 2020
ITN Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most innovative new medical imaging technologies displayed on the...
Sponsored Content | Videos | Ultrasound Imaging | January 06, 2020
The Arietta 850SE provides facilities with numerous features and functionality to get the most out of a system. The...
News | Ultrasound Imaging | December 26, 2019
December 26, 2019 — Innovatus Imaging’s Ultrasound Center of Excellence has recently expanded testing and repair...
Videos | Ultrasound Transesophageal echo (TEE) | December 19, 2019
This is an example of an augmented reality (AR) training system for transesophageal echo (TEE) created by the...
The Hitachi Scenaria View CT scanner on display at the 2019 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting in December. This workhorse 64 or 128 slice CT system, and Hitchai's portfolio of MRI and ultrasound systems, is attracting the attention of Fujifilm, which does not have some of these technologies. Combined, the new new portfolio may help Fujifilm capture a larger portion of international radiology market share. Photo by Dave Fornell.
Feature | Radiology Business | December 17, 2019 | Dave Fornell, Editor
December 17, 2019 — It was disclosed today that Fujifilm may buy Hitachi's diagnostic imaging business in a deal that...
News | Ultrasound Imaging | December 16, 2019
Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc. showcased its premium Aplio i-series ultrasound platform with updated features,...
News | Ultrasound Imaging | December 09, 2019
December 9, 2019 — DiA Imaging Analysis Ltd., an IBM Alpha Zone Accelerator Alumni Startup, announces a collaboration...
MRI Exablate neuro helmet from INSIGHTEC. Image courtesy of Ali Rezai, M.D., and RSNA.
News | Clinical Trials | December 03, 2019
December 3, 2019 — Focused ultrasound is a safe and effective way to target and open areas of the blood-brain barrier,...
