March 30, 2010 - Among a group of patients who should received radiation therapy according to medical guidelines, 95 percent of patients who had lumpectomy went on to receive radiation, while only 78 percent of those who had mastectomy received radiation.
March 29, 2010 - In the medical-education field viewing monochrome digital X-rays, computed tomography (CT) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams with accurate color and precise detail is of the highest importance.
March 30, 2010 - “Two crucial challenges for the future of radiology are the ever-growing size of imaging data sets and the increased needs for sharing and remote reading," said Dr. Claes Lundström, director of radiology IT solutions at Sectra.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
March 29, 2010 - Optical coherence tomography (OCT) not only has the potential to identify vulnerable plaques, but in countries like Japan, it is already a standard follow up to stenting procedures to determine if the stent has effectively widened the affected artery and the area is free of blood clots.
March 29, 2010 - Researchers found in patients with early breast cancer, delivering radiation therapy to the lymph nodes located behind the breast bone and above the collar bone is well-tolerated, after mastectomy or breast conserving surgery.
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March 29, 2010 - Leaders in pediatric imaging will highlight the unique concerns associated with the imaging of children, and steps manufacturers can take to reduce radiation exposure to patients, at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Public Meeting: Device Improvement to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging March 30-31 in Gaithersburg, Md.
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March 29, 2010 - As the applications in nuclear medicine become more widely adopted and a larger part of mainstream imaging, software solutions are integrating positron emission tomography / computed tomography (PET/CT) into picture archiving and communication systems (PACS).
With more than 60 percent of U.S. breast imaging facilities offering digital mammography and more acquiring digital services each month, access to digital mammography is on a solid growth track. Now with new clinical results showing digital mammography exposes patients to 22 percent less radiation than film mammography, digital is about to hit another growth spurt.
Sebasticook Valley Hospital in Pittsfield, Maine, is a small community hospital with a big mission: to be the best small hospital in Maine. The site is achieving its mission by offering state-of-the-art technology, the highest quality patient care, and exceptional marketing to physicians and patients in the local community. Patients First
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
March 29, 2010 - Medical industry leaders gather this week to discuss steps manufacturers of CT and fluoroscopy systems can take to reduce unnecessary patient exposure to ionizing radiation.
March 26, 2010 - For a patient with heart failure, checking whether the heart could benefit from bypass surgery or a stent is critical to ensuring survival.
March 26, 2010 - The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) announces an innovative addition to the educational sessions at the upcoming SIIM 2010 Annual Meeting, June 3-6 in Minneapolis - "vendor tie-in" sessions sharing corporate vision in context with the educational material.
Did you know that approximately one-third of all the data in world is created by the healthcare industry and that ...
March 26, 2010 - Completing in excess of 30 digital mammography studies per day and a large number of general studies and ultrasound, Troy Internal Medicine, P.C., one of Michigan’s largest internal medicine groups, needed a solution to help manage its existing workflow and allow it to grow its services.
March 25, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a new chest X-ray detection solution to aid in lung nodule detection.
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March 25, 2010 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has elected the officials to serve on ASTRO's Corporate Advisory Council. The goal of the council is to focus on issues of mutual concern to all corporate members and to increase awareness of radiation therapy and advance the science and practice of radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer.
March 25, 2010 - Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), a leader in the Southeast’s medical education, research and patient care, is bringing new medical image exchange technology to its hospital.
March 25, 2010 - Elastography is a newly developed dynamic technique that uses ultrasound (US) to provide an estimation of tissue stiffness by measuring the degree of distortion under the application of an external force. US elastography has been applied to differentiate malignant from benign lesions.1
March 24, 2010 - Among the top oncology information management software companies reviewed in a recent Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards report, Varian Medical System's ARIA Oncology Information Management Software ranked No. 1.
March 24, 2010 - Technologists and radiologists provided input during hundreds of screening sites to develop a totally new mammography platform designed to optimize image quality, patient comfort and enable faster imaging.
March 24, 2010 - “The NCBC stands as a testament to collaboration, cooperation and camaraderie,” said NCBC President Don Dizon, M.D., FACP, at the 20th Annual National Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Conference, hosted by National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC) on March 20 - 24, 2010 in Las Vegas.