Over the past few years, the trends in automated imaging contrast media injection systems have included the conversion from single- to dual-head injectors, the integration of data management systems and improved patient safety features.

The Breast Imaging Department of Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) operates eight breast centers, providing far-reaching access to screening and diagnostic services for women in Western Pennsylvania. “Patients come here because we specialize in women’s health.

In order for the radiologist to do the best possible job, there are a number of systems that need to work optimally. Not the least of these is the monitor on which the images and information are displayed, especially in digital mammography; in fact, if the monitor is not up-to-snuff, all the quality of the systems and processes that go before may be wasted.

Dictated narrative documentation remains the preferred mode for radiologists, both for its convenience and speed as well as its unique ability to capture reasoning, context, and other meaningful patient detail that is critical to physicians beyond structured template data. As such, dictated information will play a central role in meaningful use.

There is often a large gap between implementing technology and actually using it. Ensuring that healthcare providers not only have access to important patient information, but also that they are using it in a meaningful way is the purpose of the recent meaningful use (MU) definition.

Radiation oncologists have several imaging tools available during the radiotherapy process. Before any treatment dose can be given, however, clinicians need to appropriately select and delineate the proper target volumes, or tumors, and they need to determine which organs may be at risk for unwanted dose.

One might not expect the old adage “good things come in small packages” to have validity when speaking about imaging systems, where some modalities require a room-size space to be utilized. But in the case of ultrasound, portable systems as small as a smart phone have made inroads in a variety of settings, with proponents wondering how they lived without them.
Mobile carm, mobile C-arm, Siemens Cios, mobile c-arms Mobile C-arm fluoroscopic X-ray systems are used for a variety of diagnostic imaging and minimally invasive surgical procedures

Mobile C-arm fluoroscopic X-ray systems are used for a variety of diagnostic imaging and minimally invasive surgical procedures.

April 13, 2011 – In the fall of 2010, leadership of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), physician-scientists active in cardiovascular ultrasound, respected ultrasound physicists and senior engineers from several ultrasound companies came together to brainstorm possible applications for cardiovascular ultrasound.

April 13, 2011 – Tomophase has installed its first minimally invasive optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas.

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