(AHRA 2017, Booth #313) Agfa HealthCare will display the new DR 800* Multi-Purpose Digital Imaging System with MUSICA for dynamic image processing at AHRA 2017. The DR 800 delivers radiography, fluoroscopy and advanced clinical applications. Agfa HealthCare developed MUSICA for dynamic image processing for customers focused on value-based care who require solutions that assure every image counts.

Automated 3D echocardiography (3DE) analysis using a new, commercially available algorithm has allowed University of Chicago researchers to accurately quantify left-heart size and function in two-thirds of 300 consecutive patients. They conclude the technology can be useful in clinical practice despite its known workflow-interruptive drawbacks—especially when the echocardiographer has the know-how to correct for its shortcomings.

German researchers have shown that a new small-molecule radiotracer can work with PET, and PET alone, to image blood clots in multiple anatomic regions and regardless of where they formed.

WAYNE, NJ--(Marketwired - July 06, 2017) - Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. will highlight its innovative portfolio of imaging and Healthcare IT solutions, designed to meet the needs of hospital imaging departments, freestanding imaging centers and group practices, at the upcoming 2017 annual meeting of the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA), July 9-12 in Anaheim, CA. 

Reviewing more than 1,100 chest CT scans performed on women for various reasons, German researchers have found the imaging incidentally turned up at least one lesion requiring a closer look—i.e., BI-RADS 3 to 5—in nearly 6 percent of the patients. They call for radiologists to be alert for breast cancers when reading all chest CTs.

A retrospective study of 127 colon cancer cases preceded by conventional abdominal CT has found radiologists missed the cancers a fifth of the time.

Michigan Medicine, the Ann Arbor-based academic medical center of the University of Michigan, recently became the first health care institution in the United States to install the ARTIS pheno, a new robotic C-arm angiography system from Siemens Healthineers that is designed to broaden clinical capabilities and expand patient access while combating patient infection. With systems such as the ARTIS pheno, as well as a new name that underscores the company’s pioneering spirit and engineering expertise, Siemens Healthineers – the separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG – is helping healthcare providers worldwide meet current challenges and excel in their respective environments.

Ultrasound has outperformed MRI in a small Chinese study focused on muscle hernias, prompting the authors to recommend sonography as the first-line imaging modality for diagnosing these not-uncommon sports injuries.