Ultrasound

Ultrasound could one day play a key role in drug delivery, if researchers can harness the cavitation effect produced by ultrasound beams that allows drugs to pass through the protective membranes of cells.

GE Healthcare launched the latest salvo in its campaign to migrate high-performance capabilities to cost-challenged corners of medicine this week, releasing its lightweight, high-powered Logiq P5 at the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography conference in Denver.

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An international multicenter trial has validated the Edmonton Protocol for islet cell infusion as a fitting treatment alternative for certain patients suffering from type 1 diabetes. Results appeared in the Sept. 28 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

Agent-specific imaging techniques help reduce artifacts and realize potential of microbubble agents for macro- and microvasculature assessment

High-temp superconductors, implantable ultrasound, 256-slice CT systems pledge to remake landscape of medical imaging

New class of antirheumatic drugs heightens need to identify synovial inflammation and early bone damage

Initial results convince Europeans experimental technique may reduce benign breast biopsy rates

Imagers challenge consistency, convenience, and timeliness of Appropriateness Criteria

New advances in technology keep older modality in the picture for cost-effective cardiovascular diagnosis.

Smart computing may be the ticket to image-guided surgery, particularly for sites that can’t afford expensive technology. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with one such possibility -- software that combines data from two widely used imaging technologies to enhance prostate brachytherapy.

If you use ultrasound to guide steroid and anesthetic injections to treat ankle injuries in high-performance athletes, chances are you do not practice in the U.S.

Combining catheter-directed thrombolysis with a mechanical thrombectomy device could be more cost-effective than performing thrombolysis alone in patients with acute iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers reporting on the first study of its kind.

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Stress echocardiography can accurately predict the onset of cardiovascular disease in patients waiting for kidney transplants.

Technique could provide safe, accurate diagnosis, reducing costly, unnecessary CT trauma scanning

Routine imaging of women who have suspected appendicitis could avoid need for costly procedure

Organized coalition of imagers targets flimsy rationale behind Deficit Reduction Act

When it comes to interventional work, Toshiba wants to streamline procedures and capitalize on acquired data. One approach to realizing those goals is physical, the other is philosophical.

Researchers in the U.K. have found that an ultrasound-guided steroid and anesthetic injection can alleviate the pain and disability affecting soccer players with posterior ankle impingement. The minimally invasive treatment could help players recover pain-free mobility and return to the pitch sooner than conventional treatment would allow.

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Physicians should continue to be prudent about the use of ultrasound and perform the study only when medically necessary and when benefits outweigh risk, according to the American College of Radiology. The advice comes in the wake of recent findings by Yale researchers that link prenatal ultrasound exposure to brain damage.

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One of the first stories I wrote for Diagnostic Imaging magazine made a lot of radiologists unhappy. It was about sonographers who were not only performing echocardiograms in private offices but also providing interpretations. One of these techs told me she had to because she knew more about it than the cardiologist. That was 24 years ago.

One of the first stories I wrote for Diagnostic Imaging magazine made a lot of radiologists unhappy. It was about sonographers who were not only performing echocardiograms in private offices but also providing interpretations. One of these techs told me she had to because she knew more about it than the cardiologist. That was 24 years ago.

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