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.”

Fonar deploys 45th MRI unit

Fonar Corp. said this week that it has installed its 45th Stand-Up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system.

July 22, 2004

Camtronics' VERICIS heads to the mid-west

Camtronics Medical Systems Ltd., a subsidiary of Analogic Corp., will roll out its VERICIS for cardiovascular image and information management at HCA Midwest in Kansas City, Mo.

July 22, 2004

Oakworks highlights improved features of its patient positioning device for spine

Oakworks Inc. unveiled improved positioning features of its Spinal Imaging Platform, a radiolucent device that provides stable patient positioning in the prone position during cervical, thoracic, and lumbar procedures.

July 22, 2004

Dictaphone, eMed integrate technologies

Dictaphone Corp.'s Healthcare Solutions Group and eMed Technologies have integrated the Dictaphone PowerScribe workstation v. 4.6 speech recognition application with eMed's Matrix Version 1.1 PACS.

July 22, 2004

iCAD launches promotional program for Second Look 200

iCAD Inc. this week launched Summer Splash, a promotional program for its Second Look 200 system that offers customers purchase, lease and ClickCAD fee-per-procedure options.

July 22, 2004

Confirma debuts next generation of CADstream

Computer-aided detection (CAD) for MRI provider Confirma Inc. introduced CADstream 3.1 equipped with a CAD-analysis tool, SureLoc, for more convenient and efficient MRI-guided interventional procedures.

July 15, 2004

Siemens announces road show to highlight open MR

To help launch its new category of open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, Siemens Medical Solutions has developed a "road show event" that will visit 16 locations across the United States through mid-October.

July 15, 2004

FCC extends bandwidth freeze over hospital equipment concerns

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) this week extended a freeze until the end of 2005 on licensing high-powered private land mobile radio service users in the 460-470 Megahertz (MHz) band.

July 15, 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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