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.

Philips continues research efforts with Lenox Hill Hospital

Philips Medical Systems will further its research initiatives with Lenox Hill Hospital.

Barco opens expanded North American facility

Kortrijk, Belgium-based Barco this week officially opened an 88,000-square-foot addition to its North American BarcoView facility in Duluth, Georgia.

Philips gives technologists a boost with e-learning

Philips Medical Systems and the America Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) will provide educational opportunities to the radiologic technologist community.

Medrad achieves 16 percent revenue gain in 2003

Sales revenues increased 16 percent to $294 million for Medrad Inc. in 2003.

Connecticut-based radiology practice takes CST's Inform

Communication Synergy Technologies Inc. (CST) has signed a contract to install its Inform radiology reporting technology in Ocean Radiology Practice in New London, Conn.

Siemens completes Soarian work at Riverside Health System

Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Gloucester, Va., recently went live with Siemens Medical Solutions' next-generation Soarian Clinical Access and Soarian Common Clinicals.

InSight Health takes Merge eFilm Fusion PACS for 10 centers

Medical imaging services provider InSight Health Corp. will install Merge eFilm's Fusion PACS at a cluster of 10 imaging centers.

Report: Internet pharmacies siphoning Manitoba's drug supply

The Pharmacy Alliance for Canadians released a report this week that states that Internet pharmacy companies are diverting more than 40 percent of Manitoba's entire drug supply to the United States.

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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. 

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