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.
Thirty-three percent sales growth in its Oncology Systems business propelled Varian Medical Systems Inc. to what the company described as a "robust quarter" in its first fiscal quarter of FY04, ending Dec. 31, 2003.
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has taken delivery of Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc.'s Axiom Artis dFC to create a magnetic navigation system for enhanced accuracy during catheter procedures.
EMC Corp. this week rolled out a set of storage services designed to help customers plan, build and manage an integrated information technology infrastructure to more cost-effectively manage and protect information throughout its lifecycle.
GE Medical Systems and i3Archive Inc. this week announced a partnership to provide i3Archive's National Digital Mammography Archive (NDMA) to healthcare facilities nationwide.
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.