Digital X-Ray: Page 191

Carestream debuts CR/miniPACS software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Carestream Health has launched new CR/miniPACS software for clinics and physicians' offices, the company said.

March 18, 2010

Low-dose tomo beats chest DR for TB evaluations

By James Brice

Digital tomosynthesis may help assess pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) more thoroughly than general radiography while serving as a low-dose alternative to multislice CT, the traditional modality of choice for monitoring the highly contagious disease, according to Korean researchers.

March 18, 2010

ACC: Cardiac cath contrast has low adverse reaction rates

By Brian Casey

A new study presented at this week's American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting found that patients undergoing cardiac catheterization who received any of three major commercially available low-osmolar contrast media have low rates of postprocedure hemodialysis and in-hospital mortality.

March 16, 2010

MAGNET extends Carestream pact

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Carestream Health will provide members of group purchasing organization MAGNET with its Carestream DRX-1 and Carestream DRX-Evolution systems, as well as Carestream RIS/PACS.

March 16, 2010

GE debuts fusion software at ACC

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare has introduced Innova EPVision, a new software application designed to fuse real-time 2D x-ray images and 3D cardiac models from multiple modalities such as x-ray, CT, and MR.

March 16, 2010

Bicarbonate no better than saline for preventing CIN

By Charlene Laino

ATLANTA - Hydration with sodium bicarbonate is no better than using standard saline for preventing contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) in at-risk diabetes patients, according to research presented this week at the American College of Cardiology meeting.

March 15, 2010