Mobile devices and standards that support interoperability stand out in the shadowy world of cyber intrusions. They allow access to patient files, the making of information requests, the placing of exam orders from anywhere at any time. Those devices may be smartphones or tablets — each with varying levels of security.
Proton International announced the successful financing of a new state-of-the-art radiation therapy center and a pioneering approach to proton center financing provided and coordinated by Loop Capital.
Seno Medical Instruments Inc. recently announced that is Imagio opto-acoustic (OA/US) breast imaging system results correlate with the histopathological findings of benign and malignant breast masses. These data were highlighted during an oral presentation at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRA) Annual Meeting, May 1-5 in New Orleans.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
May 16, 2017 — Adept Medical announced the launch of the IR Platform, designed as an over-patient work surface for ...
A new study of high school football players adds to mounting evidence that the Q-Collar may help reduce brain injury from sports-related head impacts.
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Soundwaves LLC recently announced the diversification of its portable ultrasound services beyond obstetrics and gynecology to other medical disciplines, including cardiology, and the expansion of its operations from South Florida to the Mid-Atlantic.
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Blue Earth Diagnostics announced that the Trial Steering Committee recommended further recruitment be stopped in the FALCON clinical study of fluciclovine (18F) PET/CT imaging, based on successful results of a pre-planned interim analysis. The FALCON trial, announced in March 2016, is a U.K.-based, open-label study (NCT02578940) to evaluate the clinical impact of fluciclovine (18F) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging on patient management decisions in men with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer.
RaySearch demonstrated a new Monte Carlo dose planning feature for proton therapy on its RayStation system at the 2017 Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG) conference, May 8-13 in Yokohama, Japan.
Carestream Health is demonstrating new imaging analytics tools that are being added to its Clinical Collaboration Platform at the upcoming Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) conference, June 1-3 in Pittsburgh. These new capabilities are designed to equip healthcare providers to deliver preventative care.
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The webinar "Advances in Computed Tomography (CT) to Enhance Radiation Therapy Planning," will offer an overview of the use of CT simulation in radiation therapy and the technologies available to reduce image artifacts that may impact the quality of care.
A study in 65 countries has revealed low adoption of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recommendations to reduce nuclear cardiology radiation exposure. The research was presented at ICNC 2017, May 7-9 in Vienna Austria, by Edward Hulten, M.D., a cardiologist at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.
A new research study concluded that use of the BioZorb surgical marker appears to provide better cosmetic outcomes and may be associated with an increased use of breast-conserving surgery. The study was conducted by Arkansas surgical oncologist Michael Cross, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Did you know that approximately one-third of all the data in world is created by the healthcare industry and that ...
Scranton Gillette Communications’ Imaging Technology News (ITN) was recently named a 2017 Azbee Award winner in two Upper Midwest Regional categories. The annual Azbee Awards are hosted by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) to recognize editorial and design excellence in the business, trade and specialty press.
May 11, 2017 — Accuray Inc. announced that studies on the clinical use of the CyberKnife System continue to demonstrate ...
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A large nuclear cardiology laboratory in Missouri has slashed its average radiation dose by 60 percent in eight years, according to new research presented at ICNC 2017, May 7-9 in Vienna, Austria and published in JACC:Cardiovascular Imaging.1,2 The study in over 18,000 patients showed dose reductions were achieved despite a large number of obese patients.
According to new research by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute, the use of follow-up imaging is significantly less when initial emergency department (ED) ultrasound examinations are interpreted by a radiologist than a nonradiologist. The study is published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).
Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death of women worldwide. In Canada, according to the Canadian Cancer Society, one in every nine women is expected to develop breast cancer in her lifetime, and one in thirty will die from it.
McKesson Imaging & Workflow Solutions, an industry leader in providing healthcare IT and imaging solutions, is pleased to announce that independent research firm KLAS has named McKesson Radiology a Category Leader in the 2017 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report for the Picture Archiving and Communications Solutions (PACS) (Community Hospital) segment, ranking number-one in the market segment.
Philips' mission is to build intuitive, scalable and customizable products that can be easily adapted to customers' needs. This approach is the foundation for the new Philips IntelliSpace Enterprise Edition.
Philips announced the debut of its TrueVue, GlassVue and aRevealA.I. capabilities on the company’s Epiq 7 and 5 and Affiniti 70 and 50 ultrasound systems. The new visualization tools work together to enable photorealistic, transparent and 3-D visualization in one touch, delivering more reproducible and lifelike ultrasound images than traditional technologies.