Diagnostic Imaging

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.

AI rules out abnormal findings on chest X-rays, significantly reducing workloads
The commercially available software can correctly exclude pathology on chest radiographs with accuracy rates similar to those of radiologists.
Older adults among the walking wounded with incident TBI
The demographic most at risk seems to be White women who are healthy, active and of high socioeconomic status.
Philips moves digital pathology to the cloud with AWS
The partnership aims to move labs to digital workflows to streamline diagnostics.
PHOTO GALLERY: What does fetal medical imaging look like?
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.
Speaker laments radiology’s major contribution to climate change
Jonathan Gross, MD, argues that diagnostic and interventional radiology were “not developed with sustainability in mind.”

Rein EDV, Matrox bundle technologies

Rein EDV of Germany will bundle the Matrox Graphics Inc.'s RAD2mp display controller board with its new ME213L medical displays.

October 14, 2004

Toshiba announces Opart upgrades

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. released Version 5.0 software package upgrade and a central processing unit (CPU) upgrade program for Opart, a cryogenless, mid-field (0.35T) open-MR system.

October 14, 2004

Barco introduces next generation Nio

Barco this week released the next generation of its diagnostic grayscale display system Nio.

October 14, 2004

FDA OKs Stentor PACS for digital mammography images

Stentor Inc.'s iSite PACS version 3.3 has been cleared by the FDA for use in the diagnostic reading, enterprise distribution and archiving of digital mammography images.

October 14, 2004

Elekta highlights technologies to improve cancer treatment

Elekta Inc. showcased Synergy, its radiation treatment machine equipped with an integrated 3D volume imaging system, this week at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) in Atlanta.

October 7, 2004

Varian launches Clinac iX, adds capabilities to VARiS Vision

Varian Medical Systems Inc. this week at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in Atlanta unveiled the Clinac iX linear accelerator.

October 7, 2004

Calypso to collaborate with Philips and IMPAC

Calypso Medical Technologies Inc. signed strategic collaboration agreements with Philips Medical Systems' Radiation Oncology division and IMPAC Medical Systems at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTR

October 7, 2004

Guardian nets first UK PACS install

A $128,000 contract with UK-based Benenden Hospital Trust puts Guardian Technologies International Inc. in the position to begin offering its PACS technologies and services to the medical imaging community.

October 7, 2004

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Cardiovascular Business

Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business

‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.

Cardiovascular Business

FDA clears AI tool that flags signs of heart disease in chest CT scans

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.

Diagnostic Imaging

AI rules out abnormal findings on chest X-rays, significantly reducing workloads

Older adults among the walking wounded with incident TBI

Philips moves digital pathology to the cloud with AWS

PHOTO GALLERY: What does fetal medical imaging look like?

Speaker laments radiology’s major contribution to climate change

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