Radiologists use diagnostic imaging to non-invasively look inside the body to help determine the causes of an injury or an illness, and confirm a diagnosis. Providers use many imaging modalities to do so, including CT, MRI, X-ray, Ultrasound, PET and more.
This is a clinical photo gallery of fetal imaging that explains what all can be seen on medical imaging, how sex is determined, how measurements are used to track the development of a baby.
Biomorph, a New York based ergonomic furniture company, has designed a range of Level 3 PACS (picture archiving and communications system) workstations.
CompOne and Misys Healthcare Systems have inked an agreement that will build upon their existing partnership by adding electronic medical records (EMR) to their offerings using an application service provider model.
The University of Rochester, Department of Radiology, hosted its fifth annual PACS Conference, "The Expanding Integrated Digital Healthcare Enterprise," March 9 - 12, in San Antonio, Texas.
AMICAS Inc. has announced the 2005 AMICAS PACS Road Show - an educational forum for radiologists, CIOs, IT directors, radiology managers and PACS administrators during which the company's Vision Series PACS will be demonstrated.
Connect Imaging Inc. this week introduced DVDCopy a stand-alone system that allows PACS (picture archiving and communications systems) users to keep archived copies of imaging studies offsite, one of the security requirements of HIPAA (Health Insurance Po
Marketing and research consulting firm IMV Medical Information Division Inc. has released a report that estimates 24.2 million MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) procedures were performed in 2003 in the U.S., an increase of 10 percent over the 2002 total of
The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.
CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.
The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer.