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. 

French x-ray company adopts Imaging Dynamics technology

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) has inked an OEM agreement with Stephanix S.A., a manufacturer of x-ray devices in France.

Ultrasound & Echocardiography: The Images are Speaking Volumes

New systems are gaining significantly in portability, 3D and 4D scanning, wireless capabilities, multiplanar imaging, ergonomics and automatic image optimization. Better measurements and workflow enhancements are being offered, too.

Nuclear Medicine: Where PET and SPECT are King

New SPECT/CT, PET/CT systems and a variety of gamma cameras are debuting at RSNA with new functionalities. Vendors promise more user friendliness, advanced algorithms, enhanced lesion detectability and quicker scan times.

Printers: When Only Hardcopy Will Do

Multitasking printers offering varying film sizes, from a variety of modalities, gain more compact footprints. And DICOM interfaces smooth the path from modality to film in the physician's hands.

Workstations: Taking Clinical Utility Up a Notch

These clinical workhorses are gaining in strength, with enhancements debuting at RSNA for more complex surgery planning such as orthopedic measurement and templating and trending reports for examining outcomes as well as advanced search tools, dynamic wor

Workspaces

Breast Imaging: Images and Business Made Better

Integration is the name of the game for breast imaging vendors. Look for mammography PACS solutions and products to ease the transition from analog to digital.

Storage & Archiving: Here Whenever You Need It

New cost-effective, powerful devices and media are debuting for use in a variety of sizes of healthcare facilities. Storage and archiving are about more than providing safe-keeping for images these days - helping to boost productivity and ease workflow th

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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