With concerns about x-ray exposure mushrooming and anecdotes circulating about patients balking at exams involving ionizing radiation despite a commanding medical need for those exams, it’s not surprising to hear of documentation that the number of procedures for any x-ray related modality has gone down. Such was the case earlier this week, when the IMV Medical Information Division released the results of a survey that studies performed using radiography/fluoroscopy equipment at hospitals with more than 150 beds dropped about 9% from 2004 to 2009.
What is billed as an alliance may become the first step in a move that could position Virtual Radiologic as a national radiology group practice. The alliance will bring that company and S&D Medical into a workflow and technology partnership beginning Oct. 1.
When it comes to the transducers that power ultrasound, less is more. As they have gotten smaller, more has been packed into the handheld probes that host them, providing more information, allowing easier access to the body’s acoustic windows, and offering easier handling by operators. Now this triad of benefits might be in line for a further boost, a big one.
An 84-year-old male hemodialysis patient with a history of prostate cancer treated with external beam irradiation was hospitalized for intermittent melena. Colonoscopy had shown thickened mucosa of the sigmoid colon with three ulcers.
A 60-year-old woman, diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, sought medical relief for intense back pain. The neurological exam revealed a slight deficit in strength and degree of left leg extension, without tone or sensibility deficits or atrophy of the lower extremities.
A 62-year-old woman underwent laparoscopic radical left nephroureterectomy for a high-grade urothelial carcinoma in the lower renal pole. The 4.6-cm lesion had infiltrated through the renal parenchyma and into peripelvic fat. Surgical margins and 23 lymph nodes were negative for malignancy.
X-ray imaging remains the backbone of radiology; continuing developments in CR and DR are making it faster, more efficient, and more dose sensitive. In this report you will find coverage from the exhibit floor on the latest developments in CR, DR, and digital mammography.
For the past several years computed tomography has been the most innovative modality in medical imaging. In this special RSNA e-Report on CT, you'll find articles describing some of those innovations and how they'll be demonstrated at the upcoming RSNA meeting.
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Vendors continue to improve strategies for reducing dose exposures from x-ray based imaging. This comes none too soon because the risk from medical imaging-based radiation exposure has captured the imagination of the public, so much so that there are reports patients are avoiding needed CT scans out of fear of the radiation
An 84-year-old male hemodialysis patient with a history of prostate cancer treated with external beam irradiation was hospitalized for intermittent melena. Colonoscopy had shown thickened mucosa of the sigmoid colon with three ulcers.
A 60-year-old woman, diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, sought medical relief for intense back pain. The neurological exam revealed a slight deficit in strength and degree of left leg extension, without tone or sensibility deficits or atrophy of the lower extremities.
A 62-year-old woman underwent laparoscopic radical left nephroureterectomy for a high-grade urothelial carcinoma in the lower renal pole. The 4.6-cm lesion had infiltrated through the renal parenchyma and into peripelvic fat. Surgical margins and 23 lymph nodes were negative for malignancy.
