Around a quarter of the CT installed base in Europe is so outdated that it can’t be upgraded with the latest advances in, for example, radiation dose-management and reiterative reconstruction. 

The imaging division at John Muir Health in California’s Contra Costa County has been supplying topnotch image-handling capabilities to end users located across the system’s sprawling family tree—three hospitals, seven outpatient imaging centers, a 1,000-plus physician network and a dozen or so sites providing outpatient, urgent-care and surgery services—since 2001. That’s when Sectra PACS entered the picture for the Walnut Creek-based organization.

Using the National Cancer Database (NCDB), researchers set out to find the potential cost savings associated with an evidence-based radiation treatment (RT) approach among women in the United States with early-stage breast cancer.

Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns led a team of researchers who found that when using fMRI to scan canine candidates to assist people with disabilities, images would help predict which dogs would be unfit for a rigorous service training program.

Hospital leaders in Iowa are concerned that a proposed easing of the state’s certificate-of-need process would pave the way for for-profit outpatient businesses, including radiology centers, to set up shop and cherry-pick the most lucrative services to provide.  

Interventional radiologists have a new way to compare their work with that of their peers and see how it stacks up against performance benchmarks set at the national, regional and practice level. 

Patients rating their satisfaction with radiology departments may be more swayed by the courtesy of the receptionist and the cleanliness of the area than by any part of getting imaged or interacting with clinicians. And they’re more likely to let you know about it by electronic kiosk than by online survey. 

Piramal Imaging SA and Isologic Innovative Radiopharmaceuticals have announced that a Notice of Compliance (NOC) from Health Canada has been issued to Isologic for NeuraCeq (florbetaben F18 injection).