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September 13, 2011 — Ziehm Imaging is showcasing the next generation of its mobile C-arm, Ziehm Vision RFD, at the 2011 Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) congress. The event is Europe's largest annual session on interventional radiology. More than 6,500 doctors are expected to attend the event in Munich from Sept. 10-14.

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September 12, 2011 – For the eighth consecutive year, the vacancy rate for radiographers has dropped and now stands at 2 percent, according to data presented in the ASRT Radiologic Sciences Workplace Survey 2011.

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September 12, 2011 – Designed to improve productivity and efficiency in X-ray imaging, Toshiba America Medical Systems has introduced the Kalare Wireless X-ray system. The Kalare Wireless includes the advanced technology from the original Kalare, plus a new wireless 14-inch by 17-inch panel with a rotating bucky tray designed for optimal detector movement.

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September 12, 2011 – Breast imaging facilities looking for increased diagnostic confidence in mammography screening can now benefit from the exceptional image quality of the Aspire HD full-field digital mammography (FFDM) system from Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. Now U.S. food and Drug Administration (FDA)-510(k) cleared, the Aspire HD provides image clarity that enables extraordinary detail of potential abnormalities that not only assists in more accurate and reliable diagnoses, but also results in enhanced clinician productivity.

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September 12, 2011 — TeraRecon Inc. invited interventional specialists to “Intervene with iNtuition,” the company’s advanced volumetric visualization Web solution, during a session at CIRSE 2011, the annual meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe. The event will be held at the ICM Congress Center in Munich, Germany, from Sept. 10-14

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September 12, 2011 – Carestream Health announced it is taking orders for an upgraded version of its Carestream Image Suite Software. This affordable computed radiography (CR)-based image acquisition and mini-picture archive and communications system (PACS) solution performs web-based patient scheduling, fully featured image review and reporting as well as offering flexible archiving options.

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Case Study | Intelerad Medical Systems

Trigg County Hospital is a critical access facility serving Western Kentucky’s Trigg County, home to a large recreational area surrounding the region’s popular Lake Barkley. Most of the year, the population of this hospital’s service area is a modest 20,000, but that number can triple in the summer months. This creates unique operational challenges for the hospital. This extraordinary increase in service level is possible due to RIC’s use of InteleOne, a distributed radiology solution from Intelerad that provides seamless access to studies, priors and reports, regardless of where the radiologists – or patients – are located. InteleOne provides a single, highly productive environment in which RIC radiologists efficiently and collaboratively perform real-time professional readings.

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September 9, 2011 — Carestream Health has received United States market clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the CS 9300 System. It is a high-quality cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) and true panoramic imaging system for otolaryngology (ENT) and dental indications. An optional cephalometric module will be available later in 2011.

Time September 09, 2011
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September 9, 2011 — Medical image sharing website SeeMyRadiology.com has introduced a free, downloadable application for the iPhone or iPad to connect directly to the site’s cloud. Users can also make use of a full range of search and image manipulation tools.

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It’s old school that bone and ultrasound don’t mix. And it makes sense. Sonography is all about echoes, and what reflects sound better than bone? But modern ultrasound has entered a gray area, where such clear-cut distinctions no longer apply. Nothing less than a complete revamping of the modality is needed to change the fact that ultrasound has a tough time penetrating bone. But clinicians are finding that visualizing the outer surface of bony structures and the tissue surrounding them may be enough.

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September 9, 2011 — GE Healthcare announced it has received commitments from more than 100 customers globally for its Alcyone technology. The Alcyone is a nuclear cardiology platform designed to help facilitate workflow efficiency and dose management while maintaining image quality. It combines cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors, focused pinhole collimation, stationary data acquisition and 3-D reconstruction.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital and Clinics is a 471-bed facility that ranks among the finest academic medical centers in the United States. It is recognized as a national leader in several fields. To facilitate better information sharing among practitioners, the facility needed to import JPEG images from digital cameras and other video sources.

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Synergy Health is one of the highest volume centers in the world, performing more than 30 venous procedures a day. It also is one of the only groups in the world to combine the Haacke protocol MRI/MRV with the treatment of CCSVI, thereby providing better care for patients. The initial cornerstone in the diagnosis and treatment of CCSVI is the pre-procedure imaging.

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Dr. Lyle Harrison is no stranger to the challenges of delivering healthcare to patients in rural markets. Since 1997, he has been living and providing radiation oncology services in the MonDak region of eastern Montana and western North Dakota. One of his biggest frustrations was not being able to provide radiation services to every patient he saw because of limitations in the technology and expertise available. As a result, many of his patients were forced to travel hundreds of miles to bigger cities where they could get the treatment they needed.

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Frederick Memorial Hospital (FMH) was the first healthcare provider in Frederick County, Maryland, to offer digital mammography with the addition of Hologic Selenia digital mammography. In 2010, FMH once again partnered with Hologic for breast biopsy technology at its state-of-the-art women’s center – a partnership that has led to greater patient comfort and efficiency without sacrificing diagnostic confidence.

Time September 09, 2011
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Feature | Jeff Zagoudis

Federal incentive programs have been underway for just over a year to encourage adoption of electronic health records (EHR), but how this relates to radiology is not much clearer now than at the programs’ start. Part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the programs offer Medicare/Medicaid incentives to eligible professionals and eligible hospitals for adopting certified EHR technology and utilizing that technology in a meaningful way.

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Feature | Mary Beth Nevulis

Breast imaging centers, like many other users of imaging systems, are jumping feet-first into digital technology. The conversion process from film to digital doesn’t have to be difficult, and digital systems offer many benefits to both users and patients, from improved workflow and reduced storage space requirements, to superior image quality.

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Several positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents are being developed to visualize Alzheimer’s disease in the living brain to accurately diagnose patients and develop effective treatments. The only way to confirm the presence of the disease currently is by examining post-mortem samples of the patient’s brain. Experts predict these agents may soon receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance.

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Feature | Helen Kuhl

Radiation oncologists and most clinicians involved in the field prefer to spend their time treating patients, not sitting in front of a computer. Yet today more than ever, they are being tasked with spending precious time entering data and maintaining patient records.

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Feature | Don Fallati

Speech recognition has achieved strong adoption in radiology over the past several years, as many hospitals and groups have sought to preserve the convenience and high value of narrative dictation while simultaneously streamlining their production process. The benefits have been clear and centered on improvements in reporting efficiency, namely, substantial report turnaround time reduction, cost savings and integration with picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) workflow.

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