Siemens Healthcare debuted an array of imaging and informatics advances at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
SAN ANTONIO—“If we simplify the problem, we simplify the development of solutions,” Clayton M. Christensen, MBA, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, said Oct. 26 at CHIME11, the Fall CIO Forum.
Carestream Molecular Imaging is sponsoring a complimentary seminar on Imaging Technologies & Strategies in Pre-Clinical Small Animal Research on Dec. 6, in Cambridge, Mass.
Centric Health has entered into an agreement to acquire Medical Imaging Centres and certain business assets of Rads 24/7 Teleradiology Consultants for up to $36.2 million.
Carestream Molecular Imaging has added the In-Vivo Xtreme to its family of multimodal imaging products for preclinical research. Xtreme will be introduced at the World Molecular Imaging Congress Sept 7-10 in San Diego.
The patient history and clinical examination often sufficed for patients presenting to the emergency department, according to a study published as a research letter online Aug. 8 in Archives of Internal Medicine. The authors suggested that the decision to order advanced imaging studies, such as CT, be based on clinical data for this population.
The global market for diagnostic imaging will exceed $24.4 billion by 2016 with a compound annual growth rate of 6 percent from 2009 to 2016, according to a report published by GBI Research.
Women with mammographically dense breasts not only face a higher risk of breast cancer, but their tumors also are more likely to have more aggressive characteristics than women with less dense breasts, according to a study published online July 27 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
A federal district court has convicted 41-year-old Radiologist Rajashakher P. Reddy, MD, of more than 30 counts of fraud and obstruction of justice in connection with his signing tens of thousands of radiology reports that neither he nor any other physician actually viewed.
Researchers are reporting promising results for earlier diagnosis of liver cancer. In lab tests, the team used gold nanoparticles ringed by a charged polymer coating and an x-ray scatter imaging technique to spot tumor-like masses as small as 5 mm. The approach, published June 6 in Nano Letters, is reportedly the first time that metal nanoparticles have been used as agents to enhance x-ray scattering signals to image tumor-like masses.
A new 3D x-ray method, SAXS-CT, offers detailed images of brain cells and maps the myelin sheaths of nerve cells, which are key to understanding conditions such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease, according to Danish research published in the July issue of NeuroImage.
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center of Mishawaka, Ind., has purchased XRC Medical Imaging in South Bend, Ind., through an agreement with X-Ray Consultants.
GE Healthcare has shifted two members of its leadership team to differentiated product and service offerings within its healthcare unit.
Written by James Brice
A new day is dawning for breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and monitoring with the help of molecular imaging.
The Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database (MICAD), which provides free online scientific information regarding in vivo molecular imaging and contrast agents, has added 25 agents to its database.
NEW ORLEANS—With the risks of radiogenic cancer sparking concerns among patients and cardiologists, Andrew Einstein, MD, PhD, of Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, suggested that stakeholders consider radiation risks in balance with the benefits of the proposed imaging study. Einstein and a panel of presenters shared a list of strategies for reducing radiation dose across the spectrum of cardiovascular imaging modalities during a presentation at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology.
Written by Clint vanSonnenberg
More often than not, incidental findings do more harm than good, leading to unnecessary imaging and excessive angst—so that non-indicated physiology in imaging may be better off behind a dark screen rather than seen as a free screen by which to assess patients’ health, argued the authors of a commentary published March 28 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Written by Clint vanSonnenberg
Forty-two miles north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in the notorious Sunni Triangle lies the largest U.S. military hospital in Iraq, the 332 nd Expeditionary Medical Group in Balad. This level III facility is the epicenter of the military’s highest-ever survival rate—for soldiers wounded on the Iraqi battlefield, 98 times out of 100, if they make it to Balad, physicians will save their lives.
Global spending on medical imaging equipment exceeded $21 billion in 2010, according to “Medical Imaging Markets,” a report published by market research firm TriMark Publications.
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