American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

The AAPM Annual Meeting & Exhibition held in late July or early August draws about 4,000 participants to the world’s largest program of scientific, educational and professional presentations plus technical exhibits and social programs that targets the medical physics community specifically.

International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA)

IRPA is the international voice of the radiation protection profession. It is an association of radiation protection professionals joining through national and regional radiation protection societies. We promote the worldwide enhancement of professional competence, radiation protection culture, and practice by providing benchmarks of good practice, and encouraging the application of the highest standards of professional conduct, skills, and knowledge for the benefit of individuals and society.

National Conference on Radiation Control

National Conference on Radiation Control

October 31, 2019 — Zebra Medical Vision, a deep learning medical imaging analytics company, announced this week a partnership with Emergent Connect, a leading provider of cloud-based PACS software. The partnership will bring the power of AI to Emergent Connect's growing customer base, leaving zero footprint on the client side and eliminating the need for on premise installation and local workstation configurations.

What’s going on with MRI? Once the darling of medical imaging, MRI had fallen on hard times. But those times didn’t last.

After years of growing popularity, MRI usage fell sharply from 2016 to the next year. Then, in 2018, MRI rebounded, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Whether that will continue this year and beyond is hard to say.

The U.S. market is unique in that it formed over 55 percent of the global market in 2018
Since 2015 and the initial drive in adoption of DBT, the number of new units installed in the U.S. has been growing.
Imogen Fitt

When breast imaging comes to mind, mammography is the undisputed current modality of choice. Used as the primary screening tool for breast cancer, other breast imaging (BI) modalities, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound, form a comparatively smaller part of the market. For this reason, it is mammography which has typically driven the majority of BI’s market growth.

This case study reports on the outcomes achieved with GE Healthcare OEC Elite CFD mobile C-arms with CMOS flat panel detectors (CFD) in a variety of clinical settings by an interventional cardiology endovascular surgeon and an interventionalist specializing in pain management. Those results include good image quality at lower dose and improved workflow efficiency.

Attendees of ASTRO 2019 walked the halls of McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill.
The general session of ASTRO’s Presidential Symposium exemplified a new format.
A “Great Debate” at the end of the general session pitted community heavyweights against each other.
Expanded Learning Sessions spanned more than a dozen topics of the Presidential Symposium.
ASTRO’s new format for its Presidential Symposium included three parts of increasing focus: the Macro (general session); Meta (learning sessions); and Micro (Table Talks).

At the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO) 2019 annual meeting, the society’s leadership introduced a new format for its Presidential Symposium.

For the last several years, artificial intelligence (AI) has represented the newest, most rapidly expanding frontier of radiology technology. Expo floors at all the major professional society meetings are full of vendors showcasing AI tools they have developed or integrated into their products, billed as efficiency and time-savings aids to help ease the workload of radiologists who are increasingly bogged down by vast amounts of data.
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