Royal Philips Electronics announced it has acquired Shanghai Apex Electronics Technology, a leading Chinese manufacturer of ultrasound transducers, key determinants of image quality for ultrasound... More »
Algorithms that use iterative reconstruction to eliminate noise in images will have a “profound effect” on CT, according to Stanford radiology professor Dr. Geoffrey Rubin. More »
A right-handed, single, 37-year-old Caucasian man with a secondary school degree had been given a diagnosis of schizophrenia (paranoid subtype). More »
Patient information collected throughout the enterprise can be a joy when it flows well, providing an essential asset to referring clinicians and supporting staff that allows them to perform their... More »
The evolution to isotropic voxels and advances in cheap and powerful computer processing have transformed radiology from a planar science to one that is volumetric. More »
Awareness can be a powerful tool. When 50 centers performing coronary CTA compared protocols, they found that some were exposing patients to 10 times the radiation dose others were. More »
A pilot study involving eight community midwives from Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust suggests that portable ultrasound has the potential to reduce hospital admissions for predelivery... More »
A right-handed, single, 37-year-old Caucasian man with a secondary school degree had been given a diagnosis of schizophrenia (paranoid subtype). More »
With its add-on software and higher performance coils, field-upgradeable MR scanners are the lifeblood of the imaging community. But systems with upgradeable fields are rare. More »
For the past 15 years, most PACS have performed the basic tasks of taking in images, archiving them, sending them to workstations for display, and hopefully not losing them. More »
The adoption of digital technologies and IT in healthcare, and the consequent growth in the volume of patient data, presents hospitals with significant challenges in terms of data storage and... More »
A dramatic shift in R&D toward patient safety has taken place in the CT industry, a shift most clearly seen in efforts to reduce patient radiation dose. Iterative reconstruction algorithms are a... More »
Three cases—one for the colon, a second in cardiology, and a third addressing the liver—will serve as the playing fields for this year’s Workstation Face-Off. Seven companies will go head to head... More »
A dramatic shift in R&D toward patient safety has taken place in the CT industry, a shift most clearly seen in efforts to reduce patient radiation dose. Iterative reconstruction algorithms are a... More »
Nearly two decades have passed since the makers of imaging equipment began servicing equipment remotely. This revolutionary concept was a reaction to threats mounted by former field technicians of the... More »
For the first time in a year and a half, orders for Philips medical imaging equipment edged up in North America. It is the first tangible glimmer of hope that the great imaging recession may finally... More »
