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.
Vision Imaging of Leesport, Pa., has deployed Siemens Medical Solutions' Magnetom Avanto, a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance (MR) system with Tim (total imaging matrix) technology.
Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. has inked a preferred provider agreement with Lake Erie Regional Cooperative (LERC) to supply its multislice CT (computed tomography) technology to LERC's 25 hospitals and healthcare organizations across northwest Ohio
Operations at Central Suffolk Hospital of Riverhead, N.Y., are going filmless as the 214-bed hospital purchased digital image capture and information management systems from Eastman Kodak Company's Health Imaging Group.
United Marketing Group Inc. (U.M.G.) of Harrison, N.Y., and FujiFilm Medical Systems USA of Stamford, Conn., inked a national distribution agreement that entitles U.M.G. to distribute Fuji's medical films to all non-hospital clinical markets.
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
R2 Technology Inc. has been granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to market two software packages for use with the ImageChecker CT system during review of multi-detector CT (MDCT) chest exams.
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.