As surgical procedures become increasingly complex and more reliable, high-resolution intraoperative imaging is required. This is especially true in cardiovascular surgery, endovascular repairs and peripheral vascular interventions. While the best imaging quality is offered by fixed angiography imaging systems, mobile C-arm image quality is rapidly catching up.
March 14, 2012 — ViewRay said it received $45 million in new financing to help speed development of its magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) system.
http://glossary.itnonline.com/computerized-tomography-scanMarch 13, 2012 — A new study by Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) researchers found significant variation in the use of head computed tomography (CT) exams among doctors within the emergency department (ED).
While most women understand the importance of health screenings, an estimated 72 million have missed or postponed a ...
March 13, 2012 — Riverain Technologies’ software to improve early diagnosis of potentially cancerous lung nodules using chest X-ray machines has a new name.
February 21, 2012 - If you are looking for a particular object -- say a yellow pencil -- on a cluttered desk, how does your brain work to visually locate it?For the first time, a team led by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) neuroscientists has identified how different neural regions communicate to determine what to visually pay attention to and what to ignore. This finding is a major discovery for visual cognition and will guide future research into visual and attention deficit disorders.
SPONSORED CONTENT — Fujifilm’s latest CT technology brings exceptional image quality to a compact and user- and patient ...
March 1, 2012 ? Visage Imaging Inc. announced today it has released Visage 7.1, the latest version of the Visage® 7 enterprise imaging platform. Visage 7’s innovative, thin-client, server-side processing technology has been enhanced with new features providing usability, performance and enterprise-wide administration improvements.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
March 6, 2012 – Accelitech and partners have just completed a transaction to bring the first and only CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery system to the Republic of Ireland. Scheduled to begin treating patients in fall of 2012, the center will open on the campus of the Hermitage Medical Clinic in Dublin.
March 12, 2012 —Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. Inc. announced the commercial availability of the FDR D-EVO portable upgrade system, the company’s first digital radiography (DR) upgrade option for analog mobile portables.
March 12, 2012 — A new study shows that the use of gadobenate dimeglumine, the highest relaxivity gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) available for central nervous system (CNS) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), over a high concentration MRI contrast agent may improve clinicians’ ability to visualize lesions of the brain.
SPONSORED CONTENT — Fujifilm’s latest CT technology brings exceptional image quality to a compact and user- and patient ...
March 12, 2012 — Siemens Healthcare announced shipment of the Acuson S1000 ultrasound system, a premium ultrasound platform. The Acuson S1000 system expands access to imaging performance at a very low cost of ownership.
March 12, 2012 — Varian Medical Systems received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a surface beacon transponder to be used with the Calypso system as a tracking device capable of monitoring motion during radiotherapy treatments for indications anywhere in the body.
Liver imaging is a complex magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination and requires experience to reach consistent image quality. Abdomen Dot (Day optimizing throughput) engine provided by Siemens Healthcare helps to take away the complexity of abdominal imaging through guidance and sophisticated automation. This enables optimized scans tailored to every patient yielding consistent, high-quality results and enhanced staff efficiencies.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
March 9, 2012 — Residency training requirements in competencies related to radiology business practice and healthcare policy have been in place for more than a decade.
March 9, 2012 — Parascript, LLC, an image analysis and pattern recognition technology provider, announced that its AccuDetect Galileo computer-aided detection (CAD) software for digital mammography showed better overall performance in detecting breast cancer against iCad’s SecondLook in a recent retrospective study.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
March 9, 2012 — At the 2012 Tape Summit, Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. Inc. and Fujifilm Recording Media U.S.A. Inc. announced a joint venture to launch the Permivault cloud-based storage service that expands upon Fujifilm Medical Systems’ Synapse managed services platform.
March 9, 2012 — Researchers have developed a method to label transplanted cells so they can be tracked by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In the future, as cell therapies become a more integral part of regenerative medicine and tumor treatment, there could be increased need to measure how many transplanted immune or stem cells reach their target.
March 9, 2012 — Researchers from Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Boca Raton, Fla., showed that the FDG dose for positron emission mammography (PEM) may be reduced by up to 50 percent without impacting sensitivity.
March 7, 2012 — Covidien announced the global launch of the Optivantage dual-head computed tomography (CT) contrast media delivery system with simultaneous injection.
March 6, 2012 — TeraRecon announced the release of version 4.4.7 of its iNtuition enterprise advanced visualization image management solution, with enhanced support for interoperability and Quantitative Imaging, at the 23rd European Congress of Radiology (ECR) meeting in Vienna, Austria, in March 2012.
March 6, 2012 — FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A. Inc. announced that Synapse RIS Version 6.1 received modular electronic health record (EHR) certification for Meaningful Use for radiology.