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.”

Fuji invests in TeraRecon

TeraRecon Inc. has received a strategic capital investment from Fuji Film Co. of Tokyo, Japan.

June 10, 2004

Fischer helps San Fran imaging center transition from analog to digital

Fischer Imaging Corp. will deploy three of its SenoScan mammography systems and two physician review workstations at the Avon Foundation Comprehensive Breast Center at San Francisco General Hospital.

June 10, 2004

Metrx supplies New Hampshire hospital with tools to escalate AAA research project

Medical Metrx Solutions (Metrx) will supply Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, N.H.) the technology needed to accelerate its multiple center clinical study evaluating the rupture risk of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA).

June 10, 2004

Camtronics augments cardiovascular care at Integris Heart Hospital

Camtronics Medical Systems Ltd., a subsidiary of Analogic Corp., will roll out its cardiovascular information management system at the Integris Heart Hospital housed in the 508-bed Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City.

June 10, 2004

Siemens adds the Mayo Clinic to Sienet customer base

Siemens Medical Solutions will deploy its Sienet picture archiving and communications system (PACS) at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

June 10, 2004

Meeting details advances in brain imaging, Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy

This month's annual meeting of the Neuroradiology Education and Research (NER) Foundation Symposium and the 42nd American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) presented medical imaging advancements that hold what organizers say are "significant promise to enh

June 10, 2004

TeraRecon reveals strategic investment in Acrorad

TeraRecon, Inc. has entered the flat-panel detector market after this week's announcement of a strategic investment in Acrorad Co. Ltd., Okinawa, Japan.

June 10, 2004

Henry Ford Hospital creates operating room of the future

Surgical teams at Henry Ford Hospital's Vattikuti Urology Institute are now performing robot-assisted prostatectomy using revolutionary three-dimensional (3D) technology in a newly constructed operating room (OR).

June 10, 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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