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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

The lag between news and peer-review last week dragged radiology back into the quagmire of concern about patient ...

Time June 18, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

It was set a decade ago, a battle between the upstart and the champ. It wasn’t the first time. The standard bearer for ...

Time May 17, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

For all the talk about reducing dose, you’d think doing so would require exotic tools. Yet, reduced dose is not only ...

Time May 04, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Over the past several years, the radiology community has taken it on the chin with reimbursement cuts to reports of ...

Time April 20, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Increasingly in this country, diagnostic ultrasound is being used to advance a political agenda. Last month the Virginia ...

Time April 04, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

It’s been nearly a decade since vendors first floated the idea of 3T as the new clinical benchmark in magnetic resonance ...

Time March 23, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Radiology has always played outside the limelight, its value underappreciated, its contribution not fully recognized. It ...

Time March 19, 2012
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Dave Fornell, ITN Editor

By Dave Fornell, DAIC Editor With increasing concern about radiation dose levels in radiology, I wanted to share my ...

Time March 16, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Eastman Kodak was slain by its own sword. But it was pride that drove the blade, fueled by the mistaken belief that it ...

Time February 16, 2012
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Sean Reilly, ITN Publisher

Murphy's Law... One day before this year's Super Bowl, my 10-year-old TV gave up the ghost. Forced to go emergency ...

Time February 13, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Fifteen years ago, I was ready to bet the farm that X-ray, with its hundreds of thousands of systems installed worldwide ...

Time January 20, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Think oval. That’s what you’re doing if you are Hitachi Medical. The company came out with a novel design for high-end ...

Time January 05, 2012
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Dave Fornell, ITN Editor

Vendors showcase the latest medical imaging technological advances each year during the annual Radiological Society of ...

Time December 20, 2011
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

By Greg Freiherr As the dose wars in computed tomography (CT) draw to a close, a new one approaches, this one in ...

Time December 15, 2011
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

One-click this and drop-in that is my kind of technology. While I took satisfaction in mastering DOS, for example ...

Time December 01, 2011
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Computed tomography (CT) is caught in the throes of an uneasy peace. The war days, when the big four – Toshiba, Siemens ...

Time November 17, 2011
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

My least favorite celebration of the year ended October 31 without (real) bloodshed and with all of my body parts, and ...

Time November 02, 2011
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Helen Kuhl, ITN Editor

We Americans like to celebrate a lot, giving special recognition to all sorts of things that are near and dear to our ...

Time October 27, 2011
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Minimizing X-ray dose has driven the global imaging community to develop technologies that today can cut patient dose ...

Time October 20, 2011
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

When it comes to medical imaging, pick any part of the body other than the female breast and the FDA pays little notice ...

Time October 06, 2011
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