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Fixed digital X-ray systems have seen increased market share after a dip in 2020 when hospitals used funding to but more mobile DR systems due to COVID. The Konica-Minolta booth DR system on display at RSNA 2022. Photo by Dave Fornell

VIDEO: Trends in X-ray systems

Bhvita Jani, research manager at Signify Research, explains the technology trends she is seeing in the radiology X-ray market.

Sky Lakes Medical Center, Oregon, discusses how the hospitals IT team overcame a ransomware attack in 2020 during the height of COVID that took down their entire network and how radiology recovered within two weeks.. 

VIDEO: How radiology was restored after a ransomware attack at Sky Lakes Medical Center in Oregon

John Gaede, director of information systems, Sky Lakes Medical Center, Oregon, discusses how the hospital's IT team overcame a ransomware attack in 2020 and restored radiology in about two weeks.

Incoming American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) President Ehsan Samei, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FSPIE, FAIMBE, FIOMP, FACR, chief imaging physicist for Duke University Health System and the Reed and Martha Rice Distinguished Professor of Radiology at Duke, is part of the team that developed the two specialized, medical-grade mannequin humans to test how much radiation NASA astronauts will receive on the Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.

VIDEO: Radiology expertise used to create radiation astronaut phantoms for the Artemis I moon mission

Incoming AAPM President Ehsan Samei, PhD, FACR, chief imaging physicist for Duke University Health System, helped develop two specialized radiology phantom astronauts to measure how much radiation NASA astronauts will receive on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.

 Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (USMS), is addressing health inequities in mammography using its Mammovan mobile breast imaging screening program. Gwendolyn Bryant-Smith, MD, explained how the program works. #RSNA #RSNA22

VIDEO: Bringing health equity to mammography and health screenings in Arkansas

Gwendolyn Bryant-Smith, MD, division chief of breast imaging and associate director for diversity, equity and inclusion at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas, discussed how her center addressed health inequities in mammography.

The Shimadzu Trinias SCORE Opera Angiography system at RSNA 2022. It offers dose lowering technologies and workflow efficiencies. #RSNA #RSNA22

VIDEO: Shimadzu lowers dose and speeds workflow with new Trinias SCORE Opera angiography system

Sponsored by Shimadzu

Shimadzu Medical Systems USA released the latest version of its Trinias angiography system at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2022 meeting to address radiation concerns and to help improve workflow.
 

Mahadevappa Mahesh, PhD, professor of radiology and a medical physicist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, explains a new American College of Radiology (ACR) effort to ensure that lower radiation dose X-ray images under Image Wisely and As Low as Reasonable Achievable (ALARA) meet diagnostic reading standards. He spoke to Radiology Business at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2022 meeting.

VIDEO: Making sure lower dose X-ray is still diagnostic quality

Mahadevappa Mahesh, PhD, professor of radiology and a medical physicist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, explains a new ACR effort to ensure that lower radiation dose X-ray images under Image Wisely and As Low as Reasonable Achievable (ALARA) meet diagnostic reading standards.

Sean Fain, PhD, vice chair of radiology and research and a professor of radiology, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Imaging, University of Iowa, discusses how long-COVID lung damage can be tracked using xenon (Xe) gas magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and quantitative computed tomography (CT). He spoke to Health Imaging at RSNA 2022.

VIDEO: Tracking long-COVID lung damage using MRI and CT

Sean Fain, PhD, vice chair of radiology and research and a professor of radiology, University of Iowa, discusses how long-COVID lung damage can be tracked using xenon (Xe) gas MRI and quantitative CT at RSNA 2022. 

An example of artificial intelligence (AI) automated detection of a intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) in. a CT scan used to send alerts to the stroke acute care team before a radiologist even sees the exam. Example shown by TeraRecon at RSNA 2022.

VIDEO: Radiology AI aids acute care and other departments

Sanjay Parekh, PhD, senior market analyst with Signify Research, explains how some radiology AI is being adopted outside of radiology departments to improve care.

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