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. 

Q&A with Etta Pisano, MD

Principal DMIST investigator looks at where digital mammography is headed

3D

Faster image rendering and fly-throughs add dimension

Siemens funds symposium at NAPSE

An educational grant from Siemens Medical Solutions to the Center for Atrial Fibrillation at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation will fund a symposium titled "Imaging in Electrophysiology: Present and Future Perspectives," scheduled for Heart Rhythm 2004, the

Nuclear Medicine

Nuclear medicine gains a little help from its friend CT

RamSoft opens new sales office

PACS and teleradiology developer RamSoft USA announce this week that its opened an additional sales office in Phoenix, Ariz.

HHS' aids hurricane victims needing to reconstruct medical records

Medical professionals this week began using a new online federal database of prescriptions drug record to assist individuals affected by Katrina to reconstruct their medical records, the Washington Post has reported.

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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