Alzheimer's, ADNI3 study, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, NIH grant, MRI, PET, biomarkers

September 9, 2016 — The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) recently launched into its next phase, ADNI3, thanks to a $40 million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). ADNI3 — part of the long-running NIH-supported ADNI study investigating brain and fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer’s — will couple the NIH award with anticipated private sector contributions of $20 million through the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH).

September 9, 2016 — RamSoft announced the introduction of its new Remote Rendering solution for medical image processing. With Remote Rendering, images are streamed to you much like an online webinar, eliminating the need to download mass amounts of data to your computer. This process significantly improves efficiency and reduces the response time from click to display.

September 8, 2016 — The Carestream OnSight 3D Extremity System that uses cone beam CT (CBCT) technology to capture weight-bearing and other types of extremity exams has received FDA 510(k) clearance and is available for order in the United States.

This affordable, compact system offers high-quality, lower-dose 3-D imaging studies for use by orthopedic and sports medicine practices, hospitals, imaging centers, urgent care facilities and other healthcare providers.

Technological and administrative obstacles are significantly cutting into available time for physicians to engage with patients. 

Grid misalignments and grid-related artifacts may result in repeat exposures, which can lengthen exam times and decrease productivity. Canon U.S.A. Inc. and Virtual Imaging Inc. have announced a new optional "grid-free" imaging feature of CXDI Control Software NE.

 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted market clearance for GE Healthcare’s MAGiC (MAGnetic resonance image Compilation) software, the industry’s first multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that delivers eight contrasts in a single acquisition in fraction of the time of conventional imaging.

 

Radiology cannot stay where it is. Yet threats make it dangerous to move. 

mammography, 3-D breast imaging, breast tomosynthesis.

Before the introduction of 3-D digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) imaging, 2-D full field digital mammography (FFDM) systems were the gold standard for breast cancer screening. However, during the past few years, DBT has become the new gold standard.
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In May 2016, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a startling statistic. The prestigious journal pegged medical error as the third-leading cause of death in the United States. Because medical error reporting is not well-tracked, the paper’s authors needed to scour the medical literature and extrapolate the incidence of errors based on the best available data.
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