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PACS provides push for paperless
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
BOSTON - The cost justification of PACS focuses on both "hard" savings, like film costs, and "soft "savings, like workflow improvements. Eliminating the use of paper entirely can confer additional efficiencies on a radiology department’s workflow, according to a presentation at this week's Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology.
June 8, 2003
No size, grade correlation seen in enhancement of colorectal cancer
By Eric Barnes
Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston found that enhancement of colorectal masses in virtual colonoscopy correlated poorly with the degree of differentiation, although grade 1 adenomas did enhance less than lesions grade 2 and higher.
June 8, 2003
AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Radiology Insider
By Shalmali Pal
This comprehensive article features insights from several leading uterine fibroid embolization proponents, tracking the advent of UFE, its success thus far, and the efforts that have gone into selling the public, as well as the medical community, on the merits of UFE.
June 8, 2003
ACR Learning File CD-ROM Series: Body MRI
While the format of this first edition of Learning File is far superior to any other application, the program does not offer the depth and breadth of this modality, nor does it cover all the topics that are central to body imaging.
June 8, 2003
Consumer flat-panel displays show promise for CT diagnosis
By Erik L. Ridley
BOSTON - Consumer-grade color flat-panel monitors may perform just as well as medical-grade, high-luminance monochrome cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors in the primary diagnosis of abdominopelvic CT exams, according to preliminary research from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
June 7, 2003
Fuji introduces new CR device at SCAR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
BOSTON - Fujifilm Medical Systems USA debuted a new addition to its CR line today at the Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology.
June 7, 2003
Grouped procedures can cause informatics headache
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
BOSTON - Multislice CT and whole-body MR are the modalities of choice for imaging patients with multiple injuries in level-one trauma centers or tertiary-care hospitals. However, the task of associating relevant images in a PACS with each of the requested procedures from a RIS can be difficult and time-consuming, according to a presentation Saturday at the Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology.
June 7, 2003
Future to bring nanobots, expanded intelligence
By Erik L. Ridley
BOSTON - It's been said that change is constant, but in today's world, change is accelerating exponentially, according to Raymond Kurzweil. The founder and CEO of Kurzweil Technologies offered a bold vision for the future at Saturday's opening session of the 20th Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology.
June 6, 2003
Kodak starts shipping CR 850
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Eastman Kodak Health Imaging of Rochester, NY, has started shipments of its DirectView CR 850 computed radiography system.
June 5, 2003
Toshiba launches new Aplio software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba Medical Systems of Tokyo has introduced a software upgrade for its premium Aplio ultrasound scanner.
June 5, 2003
Orex adds miniPACS to CR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Orex Computed Radiography will debut an integrated miniPACS offering for its desktop CR line at next week's Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology in Boston.
June 5, 2003
How to kick the PACS tires at SCAR 2003
By Brian Casey
Do your summer travel plans include this week's Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology in Boston? If so, don’t pack your bags until you read this week’s featured article on how to buy a PACS.
June 5, 2003
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