Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

Konica displays CR systems new features

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA showed a number of its computed radiography (CR) systems last week at SCAR.

Guardian shows new FlowPoint, R&D mammo CAD system

Guardian Technologies at last week's SCAR meeting gave attendees a preview of the latest version of its FlowPoint system v.6.1 which will now include a new feature which provides international language support for UK English, Spanish, French, and Portugue

Kodak teams with Viatronix for virtual colonoscopy

Kodak is now offering a new virtual colonoscopy application on its KODAK DIRECTVIEW PACS System 5 thanks to a partnership announced by Kodak and Viatronix, Inc. last week.

Evolved adds to its RIS

Evolved Digital Solutions provided details at last week's SCAR Annual Meeting regarding its new RadWeb 4.0.4 software.

Dynamic Imaging debuts new software for IntegradWeb PACS

Dynamic Imaging launched Version 3.5 of its IntegradWeb PACS at last week's SCAR meeting.

Anthro adds to its Elevate Line

Anthro Technology Furniture debuted at SCAR a new addition to its Elevate Line of radiology furniture products for operating rooms and reading rooms, the ELT Wrap.

Study: Technology will help reduce medication errors

Some 72 percent of frontline registered nurses surveyed believe that medication safety has improved in their hospital over the last five years, according to a survey on serious medication errors.

Why a 3D lab?

Communication is the core reasoning behind setting up a 3D lab, according to Matthew A. Barish, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital who presented Setting up a 3D lab on Friday.

Around the web

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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