Digital X-Ray: Page 220

Carestream scores German PACS, CR deal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Carestream Health has signed a contract with Diakonische Dienste Hannover and the Röntgenpraxis am Marstall X-ray Clinic in Germany for a PACS installation.

March 8, 2009

Del Global to relocate

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Del Global Technologies will move its headquarters from Franklin Park, IL, to a facility in Roselle, IL, in June, the company announced.

March 8, 2009

Diabetes renders coronary CTA more difficult, less successful

By Eric Barnes

VIENNA - Diabetic patients have smaller vessels and larger coronary artery calcifications than nondiabetics, a combination that reduces the utility of coronary CT angiography (CTA), according to a new study from Italy.

March 7, 2009

320-slice coronary CTA permits much lower contrast dose

By Eric Barnes

VIENNA - Single-beat scanning not only enables significant radiation dose reductions in coronary CT angiography (CTA), the short duration of the scan permits drastically lower contrast doses as well, at least in patients with regular heartbeats and no arrhythmias.

March 5, 2009

Agfa scores three contracts

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare has been selected by Polish healthcare provider Enel-Med to install its Impax 6 PACS to serve the needs of its seven facilities and more than 360 medical institution customers across Poland.

March 5, 2009

Opacification at 320-row CT distinguishes normal, stenosed vessels

By Eric Barnes

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have developed a new way to evaluate the coronary arteries, using a method based on the change in contrast opacification along the length of normal versus stenosed coronary arteries.

March 5, 2009