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.”

Montefiore beefs up its MR technology with Philips 3T system

Philips Medical Systems has rolled out its latest in MR technology, the Intera 3.0 Tesla MRI system, at New York's Montefiore Medical Center.

July 15, 2004

OmniCorder's BioScanIR shown effective in mapping perforated vessels

OmniCorder Technologies Inc. revealed this week that the company's BioScanIR System was the subject of a recent study published in the June issue of Physics in Medicine and Biology.

July 15, 2004

GE debuts motorized C-arm for endovascular imaging system

GE Healthcare has introduced the OEC 9800 MD integrated endovascular imaging system to help reduce medical errors and increase productivity in the operating room (OR).

July 15, 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

Siemens acquires CADVision Medical Technologies

Siemens Medical Solutions has acquired CADVision Medical Technologies of Jerusalem, Israel, strengthening its competitive position in the area of computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CAD) and enhancing its oncology product portfolio.

July 15, 2004

Massachusetts-based hospital deploys GE PACS

Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass., will complement its existing IT architecture by rolling out GE Healthcare's Centricity picture archiving and communication system (PACS).

July 8, 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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