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.”

BRIT Systems integrating Guardian compression technology into PACS, teleradiology

Dallas-based BRIT Systems Inc. has signed an agreement to integrate Guardian Technologies International Inc.'s DEVision JPEG2000 compression capabilities with its PACS and teleradiology systems.

September 23, 2004

SNM supports CMS recent approval to cover PET for Alzheimer's

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) this week said it supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) decision to approve coverage of PET for Medicare beneficiaries with suspected Alzheimer's disease (AD) or fronto-temporal-dementia under s

September 23, 2004

Cedara shareholders OK acquisition of eMed

Cedara Software Corp. on Tuesday signed a $48 million agreement to acquire RIS, PACS and teleradiology provider, eMed Technologies Corp. of Burlington, Mass.

September 16, 2004

Ascension to unveil microBIRD at MICAAI

Ascension Technology of Burlington, Vt., will introduce microBIRD, a new 3D measurement device that tracks the location of instruments inside and outside the human body, at the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention Conference (MICAAI)

September 16, 2004

Varian releases new brachytherapy applicator

Varian Medical Systems this week introduced the Advanced Breast Template System for high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy.

September 16, 2004

Siemens releases 3D technology for visualization of coronary vessels

The Angiography and X-ray Division of Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced interventional cardiac 3D (IC3D) technology to create three-dimensional (3D) images of the coronary vessels in the heart.

September 16, 2004

HIPAAT ensures security and network privacy compliance at Florida hospital

Shands Hospital at the University of Florida (Shands at UF), a teaching hospital of the Shands HealthCare system, has selected HIPAAT Inc.'s products to assist with HIPAA security and privacy efforts.

September 16, 2004

National Medical Development forms new affiliate company

National Medical Development Inc. (NMDI) has formed a new affiliate company, Renaissance Medical Ventures LLC.

September 16, 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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