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.
Matrox Graphics Inc. this week announced that its French distributor, Feeder-Eizo, will bundle Matrox RAD Series and Matrox TheatreVUE Series display controller boards with select Eizo RadiForce medical displays.
Palatin Technologies Inc. has received U.S. Food & Drug Administration approval to market NeutroSpec, an imaging agent indicated for the diagnosis of appendicitis in patients five years and older with atypical symptoms.
Eastern Isotopes Inc., a subsidiary of IBA (Ion Beam Applications), made its first delivery of Iodine 124 to MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
Siemens Medical Solutions, in cooperation with Siemens Canada Limited, has deployed its Soarian Clinical Access at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ontario.
Varian Medical Systems revealed that Emory University School of Medicine's department of radiation oncology is the first U.S. healthcare facility to utilize its fully robotic on-board imaging system for tracking tumor locations and positioning patients.
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).
When it comes to investment in networking solutions for healthcare information technology, data security (67 percent) and productivity gains (60 percent) rank as major factors, according to respondents of the 2004 Healthcare Information and Management Sys
Siemens Medical Solutions this week introduced a new image and patient data management system for entry-level digital echocardiography called Image-Arena at the 15th annual meeting of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), June 28 - 30, in San Di
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.