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. 

SourceOne, IDC sign distribution agreement

Imaging equipment distributor SourceOne Healthcare Technologies this week announced the signing of a distribution agreement with digital x-ray developer Imaging Dynamics.

SourceOne distributing Barco displays

Medical imaging equipment supplier SourceOne Healthcare Technologies Inc. and digital display provider Barco have inked a national distribution agreement.

Agfa, Medicsight integrate technologies

Agfa Healthcare has inked an agreement with UK-based Medicsight to integrate and distribute its computer assisted reading (CAR) software.

CompuMed: Swissray integrates OsteoGram, patent needed for digital mammo systems

Computer aided diagnostic (CAD) software developer CompuMed Inc. and Swissray International Inc. inked a licensing agreement that authorizes Swissray to integrate CompuMed's proprietary OsteoGram software into its direct digital radiography ddR-systems.

Breast CAD Comes of Age

Breast CAD for mammography has proven its value in greater detection of lesions and is now gaining efficiency coupled with digital mammography. And breast MRI CAD is shortening the reading time.

Images Guide Surgery

Powerful image-guided surgery systems are allowing surgeons to operate more efficiently and effectively in applications such as cranial, ENT, trauma and spine surgery. Most often it means less surgical time for the physician and less recovery time for the

Bringing Images into the OR

Here's a review of what to consider in displays, carts and computers on wheels, PACS and networking to create a filmless, image-friendly OR.

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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