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.”

AccuSoft announces new agreement and two extensions

AccuSoft Corp. has signed NextGen Healthcare Information Systems Inc. as a new customer and has secured what the company describes as "significant additional business" with both GE Medical Systems (GEMS) and DocStar.

January 15, 2004

Emageon to Provide Intelligent Visual Medical System for Wisconsin's ThedaCare

Emageon today announced an agreement with ThedaCare, an integrated delivery system in Central Wisconsin, to provide advanced visualization, content management and workflow integration of medical imaging throughout its multi-facility enterprise.

January 8, 2004

Cardinal Health rolls out radioactive check device

Cardinal Health Inc. of Dublin, Ohio, has released the Sr-90 radioactive check device for radiation oncology healthcare professionals.

January 8, 2004

Civco unveils new bracket for ultrasound transducers

Civco Medical Instruments, of Kalona, Iowa, has introduced a single-angle bracket compatible with Medison C2-6IC ultrasound transducers.

January 8, 2004

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-Orlando utilizes new helical tomotherapy system

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Orlando, Fla., has begun using a procedure called tomotherapy -- a form of image-guided intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) -- to treat patients with head, neck, prostate, lung and/or breast cancer.

January 8, 2004

Camera pill can help in finding abnormalities in small intestines

The diagnosis of small bowel disease appears to have taken a major step forward, thanks to an ingestible video camera that produces digital images of the small intestine.

January 8, 2004

Array Corp. USA and Fujifilm Medical sign digitizer marketing pact

Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc. will market Array Corp. USA's Array 2905 HD laser film digitizer through a newly signed distribution agreement.

January 8, 2004

Philips Medical Systems, EP MedSystems partner in EP technology

Philips Medical Systems and EP MedSystems Inc. have aligned in the area of electrophysiology (EP) to diagnose and treat cardiac rhythm disorders.

January 8, 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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