News | PET-CT

Siemens Healthineers has announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Biograph Horizon Flow edition, a cost-competitive positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) system that features the company’s revolutionary FlowMotion continuous bed motion scanning technology.

Time June 12, 2017
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News | Radiation Oncology

The alliance will study the feasibility of using CRnR’s converging x-ray lens technology as an effective radiotherapy and radiosurgery option. MD Anderson will develop technologies to enhance and enable clinical implementation of CRnR’s X-ray lens system called Mercy Beam.

Time June 12, 2017
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News | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued a new clinical guideline for the use of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in early-stage lung cancer today. While SBRT is the current standard of care for peripherally located tumors in patients who cannot undergo surgery, the new guideline addresses the appropriateness of SBRT for medically inoperable patients with high-risk clinical scenarios requiring curative focused therapy.

Time June 12, 2017
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News | Clinical Trials

The milestone Imaging Dementia — Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) Study is working with government and academic researchers to launch three add-on studies to expand the impact of the core study where more than 18,000 people with cognitive decline but an unclear diagnosis will receive an amyloid PET scan.

Time June 09, 2017
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News | Molecular Imaging

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared syngo.via VB20 for Molecular Imaging (MI) from Siemens Healthineers — a new release of the company’s established intelligent visualization software for multi-modality imaging.

Time June 09, 2017
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News | PET-CT

Oncologists have access to advanced imaging technologies for excellent cancer patient care with the new Celesteion PUREViSION Edition PET/CT system from Toshiba Medical, a Canon Group company. The newest edition of Celesteion allows for ease and efficiency in PET/CT, CT simulation and diagnostic CT exams, to help diagnose and treat oncology patients.

Time June 09, 2017
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News | SPECT-CT

Siemens Healthineers debuts Symbia Intevo Bold at the 2017 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). The system combines the company’s proven single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) technologies with new, high-performance CT capabilities to enable a wide range of clinical applications.

Time June 08, 2017
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Blog | Radiology Imaging

Radiology may have happened upon a new kind of pragmatism, one coming from the ground up.

Time June 08, 2017
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Sponsored Content | Case Study | Digital Radiography (DR)

With healthcare institutions incentivized to convert to digital radiography (DR)under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, many organizations have made the transition from computed radiography (CR) to DR. For the imaging staff at Androscoggin Valley Hospital (AVH), a small, rural 25-bed hospital in Berlin, N.H., it was not the cost-effectiveness, but time and resources that led to the conclusion to adopt digital.

Time June 08, 2017
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Sponsored Content | Case Study | Radiation Therapy

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) employs significantly higher per fraction radiation doses than conventional radiotherapy. Therefore, for patients with aggressive cancers, SBRT can be a more potent, therapeutic treatment option leading to better local control. However, an enduring challenge in delivering SBRT for some cancers — lung and liver tumors for instance — has been the impact of the patient’s breathing on tumor motion.

Time June 08, 2017
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News | Mammography

An analysis of breast cancer data revealed that many small breast cancers have an excellent prognosis because they are inherently slow growing, according to Yale Cancer Center experts.

Time June 08, 2017
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News | Radiation Oncology

In an article published in the June 2017 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, researchers assert that exposure to ...

Time June 08, 2017
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News | PACS

Novarad Corporation has renewed a PACS contract and entered into agreement for three additional products with major Philippines hospital, Makati Medical Center.

Time June 08, 2017
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Feature | Radiology Imaging | By Jeff Zagoudis

While the harmful effects of ionizing radiation have been common knowledge for some time, it is only in the last decade or so that there has been a heavy focus on patient safety in radiology. Unfortunately, this was largely because of heavily reported cases of patients suffering physical trauma due to being excessively dosed during computed tomography (CT) examinations. National organizations such as the American College of Radiology (ACR), Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) and the Joint Commission have devised various standards related to radiation safety, but much of the progress of the last 10 years can be attributed to the efforts of individual states, which are in turn inspiring others to take action.

Time June 07, 2017
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Feature | Enterprise Imaging | By Jef Williams

Much has been documented about the role of enterprise imaging as part of the larger effort to integrate a single longitudinal patient record. Despite the many ways an imaging effort reflects an organization’s electronic medical record (EMR) effort, there remain some distinct differences. For one, an enterprise imaging effort requires more careful understanding of peripheral and disparate systems. As an initiative, this primarily will serve as a support technology to the EMR and will be successful based on how it optimizes existing systems. Second, departmental workflow must remain uncompromised as part of an efficacious care delivery ecosystem. The challenges associated with deploying an EMR and the well-documented dissatisfaction on clinical workflow cannot, and should not, characterize enterprise imaging.

Time June 07, 2017
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Feature | Radiation Therapy | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), precision-based medicine is an emerging approach for disease ...

Time June 07, 2017
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News | Clinical Trials

According to a recent study, one in four women with breast cancer who opt for a breast-saving lumpectomy will need a second surgery — increasing both costs and the risk of complications.

Time June 07, 2017
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News | Mammography

Hologic, Inc. announced that the Genius 3D Mammography exam is now the only mammogram that is FDA-approved as superior to standard 2-D mammography for routine breast cancer screening of women with dense breasts.

Time June 07, 2017
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Feature | Women's Health | By David A. Strahle, M.D.

Editor’s note: In this article, David A. Strahle, M.D., candidly shares how and why he and his team became involved with the systematic development of an abbreviated protocol for screening breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and what they learned after carefully evaluating the data. This original research was conducted by Strahle, Dorothy R. Pathak, Ph.D., Arlene Sierra, M.P.A., Sukamal Saha, M.D., and Catherine Strahle, D.O., and Kiran Devisetty, M.D.

Time June 06, 2017
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Feature | Computed Tomography (CT) | By Jeff Zagoudis

Perhaps no issue has taken on more prominence in radiology than radiation safety for both patients and hospital staff. Several regulatory bodies have enacted guidelines in recent years to improve radiation dose monitoring and reporting for computed tomography (CT), including the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA), which created the XR-29 “Smart Dose CT” standard. Beginning Jan. 1, 2016, the standard levied a reduction in Medicare reimbursement on the technical component of all diagnostic CT exams conducted on a non-compliant scanner. The initial reduction was set at 5 percent, but it jumped to 15 percent as of Jan. 1, 2017, giving providers and vendors even more incentive to closely monitor and manage dose.

Time June 06, 2017
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