Clinical News: Page 2346

Radiation dose and cancer risk in pediatric CTA exams
By Cynthia E. Keen
When it's clinically necessary to evaluate the coronary arteries of a child, the quality and detail of images produced by electrocardiogram-gated coronary CT angiography (CTA) are the best that can be created by an imaging modality. But is the image clarity worth the radiation dose?
August 20, 2009
Software scans radiology reports for signs of acute lung injury
By Cynthia E. Keen
Physicians at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have developed a software tool that scans radiology reports in real-time for language indicating that intubated patients have acute lung injury. The developers believe the software could speed up treatment of these patients and reduce the condition's high mortality rate.
August 20, 2009
AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Insider
By Kate Madden Yee
August 19, 2009
Digisonics nabs 2 cardiology software contracts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound image management firm Digisonics has inked two cardiology contracts for its software packages.
August 19, 2009
Varian wins Swedish contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has won a contract with a proton therapy center in Sweden.
August 19, 2009
FDA OKs Intelerad PET/CT product
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS vendor Intelerad Medical Systems has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market and distribute its PET/CT Image Fusion product.
August 19, 2009
Brazilian team marries lung CAD with PACS
By Eric Barnes
Nearly all computer-aided detection (CAD) systems in clinical use today have a major shortcoming: the need to transfer image data to a separate workstation to run CAD software, with CAD data remaining separate from the PACS images radiologists read in their normal workflow. Researchers from São Paulo may have the answer.
August 19, 2009
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Breast imagers, ahoy: New technology on the horizon
By Kate Madden Yee
Despite its benefits, mammography is still a 2D modality used to image a 3D structure, which can lead to excessive patient recalls. But other imaging technologies on the horizon may help get around this problem, according to Bonnie Rush, who spoke to the matter at the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators annual meeting.
August 19, 2009
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Xograph completes Ziehm install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
U.K. radiology products supplier Xograph Healthcare of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, recently delivered a Ziehm Vision mobile C-arm image intensifier to the Runnymede Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey.
August 18, 2009
Siemens gets U.K. MRI order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has taken an order for its Magnetom Verio 3-tesla MRI system from the British Heart Foundation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
August 18, 2009
Digisonics takes NY order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound image management firm Digisonics has received an order for its DigiView image management and reporting system from Albany Medical Center in New York for echocardiology reports.
August 18, 2009
Philips updates Xcelera for cardiology, ships CT scanner worldwide
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare has enhanced its Xcelera multimodality cardiology image management, analysis, and reporting system.
August 18, 2009
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