January 25, 2023 — On November 11th, 2022 at the Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas, USA, Robotic Spine Surgeon Dr. Kornelis Poelstra performed the first human-spine-surgery based on BoneMRI. 

Frank Pecaitis

The Imaging Technology News (ITN) team was saddened to hear of the untimely passing of Frank Pecaitis, US North American market leader for enterprise diagnostics, informatics and venture software solutions at Philips North America, on December 24. Frank had been a long-time contributor to ITN.
Have you read the January/February 2023 issue of Imaging Technology News?

Have you read the January/February 2023 issue of Imaging Technology News? If not, take some time out of your busy schedule to read this month's top content, which includes a brand new column, One on One.

January 24, 2023 — For patients with cancer, lengthy delays in treatment can decrease their chances of survival. In an analysis of 2004–2017 information on patients with breast cancer in North Carolina, Black patients were more likely to experience such treatment delays than non-Black patients. Also, patients living in certain geographic regions of the state, regardless of race/ethnicity, tended to experience delays.

January 24, 2023 — Researchers who have created a new tool that could transform medical understanding of inflammation – a feature of most diseases – have received just under $2.5 M to test it in humans. 

The new Positron Emission Tomography (PET) radiotracer LW223 is the first to be unaffected by the rs6971 polymorphism – a genetic mutation in humans that has so far limited the efficacy of inflammation imaging to around 40% of the population. 

January 24, 2023 — Carestream Health was awarded 20 new patents in 2022 for global advances in artificial intelligence (AI), image quality, digital radiography (DR) 

January 23, 2023 —  PreciseDx, a leading innovator in AI-powered, patient-specific disease analysis, announced its recent publication in 

January 23, 2023 — A study published in the January issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine reports that approximately one out of every two Medicare patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) does not receive the appropriate imaging prior to receiving radiation therapy.

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