March 9, 2020 — As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) slowly spreads across the globe, more industry conferences are deciding to cancel their events, many of them offering virtual alternatives. The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) is the latest to take this precautionary measure.
March 9, 2020 — An open-access American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) Collections article detailing how a tertiary hospital in Singapore responded to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) offers a thorough summary of ground operational considerations for radiology departments presently reacting to the
March 6, 2020 — An article by radiologists from Wuhan, China — published open-access and ahead-of-print in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) — concluded that chest CT had a low rate of misdiagnosis of COVID-19 (3.9 percent, 2/51) and could help standardize imaging features and rules of transformation for rapid diagnosis; however, CT remains li
Ambra Health, makers of the leading cloud-based, medical image management suite, today announced a partnership with Perspectum, a global leader in the development of medical image analysis technologies. Perspectum's flagship product LiverMultiScan, leverages Ambra Health's Cloud PACS to enable anytime, anywhere access to images and provide reliable, trusted cloud backup and archive to reduce business continuity risk.
March 6, 2020 — While COVID-19, previously known as the novel coronavirus, was first reported in China, it was recently declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization. Because most cases have been in China, clinicians elsewhere may be unfamiliar with how the virus appears in the lungs.
March 5, 2020 — Using a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to target and sample suspicious prostate tissue along with a standard prostate biopsy is significantly more likely to detect the most aggressive prostate cancers than standard biopsy alone.
