Royal Philips today announced the appointment of Mr. Robert Cascella to lead Philips’ multi-billion euro cluster of Imaging businesses. 

Digital radiography has now largely replaced film across the U.S., making workflows more efficient and offering more sophisticated image processing and storage.

Digital breast tomosynthesis scored a win on Oct. 31, 2014, when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved Medicare reimbursement for women undergoing a tomosynthesis exam in conjunction with 2D digital mammography.

Giving new meaning to the words “PET scan,” the Center for Image-Guided Animal Therapy at Johns Hopkins University offers a wide variety of pets access to advanced medical imaging.

Shimadzu Medical Systems USA announced today the new addition of the MobileArt Evolution EFX AeroDR to its family of wireless mobile digital radiography systems. This lightweight and cable free system has an integrated 17” touchscreen viewer to provide expanded viewing area of diagnostic images that are acquired and displayed. This also makes for easier control settings selection with its larger screen icons.

In cases of frostbite or injuries to an extremity, imaging can offer information on circulation and the impact of treatment. Now, researchers in Baltimore are investigating whether indocyanine green laser angiography could replace Doppler tests or higher radiation imaging.

A recent public reporting initiative from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has had little to no effect on MRI examination rates for low back pain prior to conservative therapy, according to results of a study published online Mar. 9 in Radiology.

Royal Philips today announced its collaboration with theUniversity of California, Irvine, to explore how spectral breast imaging can improve breast density measurement, potentially aiding clinicians in more accurately gauging breast cancer risks and monitoring changes over time.