Toshiba’s advanced radiation dose reduction technology, Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction 3D (AIDR 3D), is now available ...
Toshiba will showcase Spot Fluoro, a dose management tool for Infinix-i vascular X-ray systems. Spot Fluoro allows clinicians to view a region of anatomy using live fluoroscopy while viewing the Last Image Hold surrounding area, resulting in lower dose and a larger image display area than offered by previous technology.
Offering customers CT systems to meet varying clinical needs, Toshiba showcases its Aquilion ONE, Aquilion PRIME and Aquilion RXL.
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At the 2012 annual meeting of the American Society for Radiology Oncology (ASTRO) in Boston, Siemens Healthcare highlighted its technology to optimize and accurately image for radiation therapy treatment planning and follow-up.
The IMIX team will be at Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2012 in the South Hall, booth 3060. The latest in DR technoloy, including X Wireless, the industry's lightest wireless DR cassette, will be on display.
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November 6, 2012 – GE Healthcare showcased a number of new advanced imaging technologies and software capabilities at the 54thAnnual American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting last week in Boston.
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November 6, 2012 — Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. has expanded its Assurance Program to offer reconditioned Toshiba ultrasound systems. Assurance ultrasound products include AplioTM XG, Aplio MX, Aplio Artida, Viamo and Xario XG. All come with a 12-month warranty.
Varian Medical Systems showcased the latest version of the Vitesse real-time treatment planning for high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy at the annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). This software will make it possible for clinicians to plan and perform high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy treatments accurately and quickly in the operating room using real-time ultrasound guidance, without moving the patient to a computed tomography (CT) scanner partway through the process.
The Philips Healthcare Ambient Experience integrates architecture, design and enabling technologies, such as dynamic lighting and sound, to allow patients and staff to personalize their environment to create a relaxing atmosphere. Patients are able to select room themes and sounds, empowering them to be involved in their own care. Concurrently, Philips’ designers take special care to address the needs of the clinical staff to make their workplace efficient and pleasant.The Ambient Experience uptake room can help reduce patient anxiety, improve workflow and patient care. The uptake room solution is a stylishly designed ceiling unit that generates specifically created mood settings with practical procedure light and audio settings for an excellent staff working environment. It transforms a standard uptake room into one that changes according to the various workflow steps. In this way, it fully supports the tasks performed by staff and reduces patient anxiety at the same time.The solution includes:Practical procedure light and audio settings for an excellent staff working environmentSpecific task light to facilitate FDG (a radiopharmaceutical used in medical imaging) injectionActive relaxation video content and light settings – with emphasis on the first 25 minutes of the uptake periodFor more information: www.philips.com
Did you know that approximately one-third of all the data in world is created by the healthcare industry and that ...
A new report by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute shows that the length of the average hospital stay in the United States has increased at the same time as use of medical imaging scans has declined. It is unclear if the trends are related, but potentially important, as hospital admissions are among the largest, and fastest growing, healthcare costs. More research is needed to assess the potential negative impact of government and private insurer imaging reductions on overall medical costs and patient safety.
The ddRVersa Motion X-ray system provides automation and versatility for any imaging provider. Its customizable multi-detector configurations create a fit for any environment. The lightweight cassette sized wireless ddRPortable detector option provides excellent image quality.
October 23, 2012 – Sony Electronics’ Medical Systems Division is announcing the availability of its full line of diagnostic medical imaging monitors for radiology. The displays are 510(k) cleared for use in general review of images from every modality including CR/DR, CT, MRI and full-field digital mammography (FFDM) studies. With these new monitors, Sony is further expanding its footprint in radiology adding to its already long list of technology offerings including recording devices, printers, LCD displays and other essential equipment for medical applications.
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At RSNA 2012, Quantum Medical Imaging will debut its new DRive DR upgrade makes conversion to a DR workflow fast, easy, and cost effective. DRive equips providers to upgrade conventional X-ray generators with a choice of fixed panel, tethered panel or a dual-detector offering. Image capture and preview is less than three seconds.
Carestream announced the availability of its Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) Module that displays DBT exams from DICOM-compliant acquisition devices on its CARESTREAM Vue Mammo Workstation. The workstation also displays traditional mammograms, breast ultrasound, breast MRI and general radiology exams to help equip radiologists to work efficiently from a single desktop.
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Agfa HealthCare's Impax Business Intelligence is an advanced platform that enables healthcare managers and care providers to compile, organize and manage clinical, quality, financial and administrative data. A key benefit of Impax Business Intelligence is its ability to give managers and care providers access to data that helps them to identify opportunities such as trends and cost-savings, as well as potential issues like workflow bottlenecks.
Agfa HealthCare’s ICIS (Imaging Clinical Information System) workflow-centric platform unifies the patient record across regions, facilities and departments, creating a true longitudinal patient-imaging record by integrating and linking multi-facility, multi-departmental and multi-specialty imaging data. Customers can deliver proven image enabled longitudinal patient record solutions for all organizations from HIEs to community hospitals. With proven enterprise imaging access, healthcare organizations now can more readily meet Meaningful Use requirements and HIE strategies.
Intelerad Medical Systems announced the release of Nuage Disaster Recovery Services, which provides hosted data archiving and disaster recovery solutions for hospitals and ambulatory imaging providers.
Intelerad Medical Systems announced the launch of Flow by Intelerad. An enterprise solution for radiologists, Flow provides fluid diagnostic experiences across streamlined workflows to accelerate team collaboration and grow business in complex distributed environments.
SourceHOV announces at RSNA 2012 its innovative X-Ray Preservation Program for legacy X-ray images that require long-term retention and that may be in jeopardy of degradation. Whether for specific pediatric and mammography cases or for a wide range of legal reasons, some medical films must be kept for time periods beyond the standard five to 10 years. These images are frequently on cellulose acetate-based film, commonly used for medical image output during recent years. Cellulose acetate film has been found to break down over time, leaving important medical films in jeopardy of degradation.
The recently introduced Sony Electronics UP-D711MD is the first integrated thermal printer for the ultrasound market. With its extremely slim and compact design, this monochrome black and white printer is ideally suited for portable ultrasound carts. Building on Sony’s printing expertise in medical applications, the UP-D711MD meets the day-to-day requirements of the evolving ultrasound landscape.