Co-operation across hospital and regional boundaries results in great efficiency gains. Sectra RIS/PACS is a performance solution for wide area radiology – enabling efficient workload sharing across multiple sites, even for very large image stacks over strained networks.
At RSNA 2009, Sectra will showcase its digital mammography solution, Sectra MicroDose Mammography[1], featuring further enhanced performance for high-volume screening. Sectra customers perform as many as 15 four-image examinations per hour. With a fast detector, the system allows for an even higher productivity if needed.
October 8, 2009 - Radiologist Loren H. Ketai, M.D., from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, will bring her medical expertise to Estonia as part of the International Visiting Professor Program offered by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
October 8, 2009 - Effective Jan. 1, 2010, the American College of Radiology (ACR) CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine and PET Accreditation Program requirements for medical physicists and MR will change.
October 8, 2009 - October 8th, 2009 - Bionix Radiation Therapy offers three new positioning products, including a full body positioning device for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT).
SPONSORED CONTENT — Fujifilm’s latest CT technology brings exceptional image quality to a compact and user- and patient ...
October 8, 2009 - Agfa HealthCare at RSNA 2009 will demonstrate how its DR portfolio with the introduction of the DX-D 500n* and DX-D 300 DR* systems in North America.
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October 8, 2009 - Royal Philips Electronics said it has developed a digital silicon photomultiplier technology that will allow faster and more accurate photon (the basic quantum unit of light) counting in a wide range of applications where ultra-low light levels need to be measured.
October 8, 2009 - Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, will provide its development candidate florbetaben, a PET (positron emission tomography) tracer, to the Swiss-based biopharmaceutical company AC Immune SA, to support a clinical trial in the field of Alzheimer´s disease (AD). This study is conducted to develop a therapy option for the treatment of AD.
October 8, 2009 – Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. said two oral presentations featuring gadofosveset trisodium, the first and only FDA cleared blood pool contrast agent for magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), were presented at MRA-Club 09: The 21st Annual International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Angiography.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
The RAPIDOSE is a significant new advancement in the way x-ray measurements are made for diagnostic and Mammography X-ray machines. For every exposure, a wealth of organized data is captured which can all be viewed instantly without scrolling. At the end of a measurement session, easily save all automatically recorded measurement values and waveforms for future analysis.
Radcal Corporation's PDC (Patient Dose Calibrator) is a DAP meter calibrator which measures DAP, DAP-rate, dose and dose rate and solves much publicized problems relating to variation of DAP, patient dose system and AEC calibration and is ideally suited to aid the setting of reference doses.
Radcal's new ACCU-PRO Multi-Purpose Analyzer with basic and advanced dose features kVp and mAs functions for radiography, fluoroscopy, mammography, CT, dental and survey measurements with intuitive use, quick setup and convenient portability.
Did you know that approximately one-third of all the data in world is created by the healthcare industry and that ...
October 7, 2009 - Breast MRI was found to be a useful adjunctive tool when findings at conventional imaging, such as mammography, were equivocal, according to a study published in the online version of the October 2009 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
October 7, 2009 - CMS recently released to the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs), via transmittals 1817 and 106, reissued Guidance and Billing Instructions for the April 2009 changes to the National Coverage Determination (NCD) on Positron Emission Tomography (FDG).
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October 7, 2009 – Rates of death were similar in patients with and without incidental findings (IF) identified with cardiac computed tomography (CT), and IF was not an independent predictor of noncardiac death, reported researchers in a study published in the online version of the October 2009 issues of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Viztek, a Raleigh-based radiology solution company, is debuting a new Smart Card Reader for its Opal-RAD family of PACS offerings.
Since its introduction in 2008 as a Google-like search engine for radiology reports stored in the Philips iSite PACS, Softek Illuminate — manufactured by Softek Solutions, Inc. — has grown into a powerful information retrieval, physician notification and imaging analytics solution for hospitals.
Resonance Technology Company, Inc. (Northridge, Ca.), an innovator in high-performance MRI-compatible technology, is introducing an exciting new concept in entertainment delivery for the MRI environment, as well as a jumbo, high resolution functional MRI (fMRI) panel fine-tuned for today’s most advanced MRI coils.
October 7, 2009 - The ACR has just released the latest version of the ACR Appropriateness Criteria — evidence-based guidelines to help physicians and other providers make the most appropriate imaging or treatment decision for a given clinical condition - which will soon be accessible on iPhones, BlackBerrys, Palms, PDAs, smart phones, or similar handheld electronic devices.
October 7, 2009 - Mathematical solutions to enhance the image quality of diffuse optical tomography (DOT) to use for breast cancer screening is in development at Clemson University in collaboration with researchers at the University of Bremen, Germany.