Equipment: Page 46

Refurbished equipment helps imaging facilities do more with less

By Brian Casey

Farida Razvi was facing a dilemma. As manager of the nuclear medicine department at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, she wanted to replace the hospital's aging single-head gamma camera, a Prism system of Picker International vintage. But as a nonprofit community hospital, Mount Sinai faced serious budget constraints in terms of how much money it could commit to acquiring new technology.

February 28, 2007

Maccabi Healthcare introduces HMO-based IT product

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

An Israeli healthcare maintenance organization (HMO), Maccabi Healthcare Services, has released a healthcare information technology (HIT) product specifically for HMOs.

February 19, 2007

Group uses electron beam CT for functional CT of kidneys

By Eric Barnes

Many recent advances in CT have focused on creating high-resolution anatomical images from thin-section data. Functional research has largely been relegated to the sidelines. But a new experiment is promising in its use of functional CT to fill a real clinical need. Researchers measured the kidney's glomerular filtration rate using electron beam CT (EBCT) in an animal model.

February 7, 2007

Survey finds routine use of 3D visualization

By Erik L. Ridley

Use of 3D advanced visualization technology has become a routine part of the interpretation process for the vast majority of radiologists and cardiologists, according to a survey presented at the 2006 RSNA meeting in Chicago.

December 17, 2006

Merge Healthcare to establish Indian support center

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Merge Healthcare of Milwaukee said that it is forming a global software engineering and customer support center in Pune, India, to complement its existing operations in North America and China.

November 16, 2006

Dunlee, Barrington ink deal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Barrington Medical Imaging, a supplier of preowned refurbished CT and MRI systems, has signed an exclusive provider agreement with imaging equipment components supplier Dunlee of Aurora, IL.

October 30, 2006