Pediatric Radiology: Page 90

Tips for successful pediatric nuclear imaging

The prospect of scanning a pediatric patient can create fear and self-doubt in even the most experienced technologist. Yet most techs will encounter children as patients at some time and with some frequency. Nuclear medicine technologist Sandy Ferency of SPECT imaging provider Brain Matters in Denver shares some important tips to help achieve a good quality scan and a happy patient.

October 19, 2006

Autosegmented MRI plumbs the depths of adolescent obesity

By Shalmali Pal

Obesity is the fastest-growing disease in the pediatric and adolescent age groups. Imaging tests can guide the treatment of obese patients, whether they're used for risk prediction or postsurgical follow-up. Researchers from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio successfully used MRI to measure visceral adipose tissue and noninvasively quantify the amount of intra-abdominal fat in pediatric patients.

July 20, 2006

Philips, UAB collaborate

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Philips Medical Systems said it will outfit the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System's new heart and vascular center.

June 18, 2006

Radiologists can misinterpret children's lung nodules at CT

By Eric Barnes

Lung nodule features that are suggestive of malignancy in adults may indicate the opposite in children -- and vice versa -- according to a study in the May issue of Radiology. New methods are needed to separate benign from malignant lung data in children, according to the authors.

May 15, 2006

Vivalog adds Canadian install

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image management developer Vivalog has received an order for its MyPACS Enterprise network from the Hospital for Sick Children in Ontario, Canada.

May 14, 2006

MRI delineates brain injuries in newborns

By Shalmali Pal

SAN FRANCISCO - MRI can answer many of the major questions surrounding term infants who may have sustained perinatal brain injuries, according to a presentation this week at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting.

May 2, 2006

Pediatric MRI and suite templates: If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it

MRI suite vendor templates don't address a myriad of facility- and patient-specific issues, leaving the imaging facility and its designers to address them. MRI architectural consultants Tobias Gilk and Robert Junk explain why nowhere is this truer than in a facility with a significant pediatric patient load.

April 24, 2006

Swissray notches hospital orders

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Digital radiography vendor Swissray International has received orders for its flat-panel direct digital radiography (ddR) systems from several U.S. children's hospitals, according to the Elizabeth, NJ-based vendor.

March 20, 2006

X-ray's role debated in systematic diagnosis of pediatric constipation

By Shalmali Pal

In 1999 Dr. Susan Leech and colleagues at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, U.K., published an x-ray scoring system for assessing childhood defecation disorders. Six years later, is the Leech system still useful? Yes and no, according to two research groups from the Netherlands. One group gave the Leech method their vote of confidence, while the other found it to be of limited value.

March 16, 2006

peerVue adds Children's National to client roster

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Software developer peerVue has sold its enterprise teaching file application to Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC.

March 14, 2006

VSM nets install at Cincinnati Children's Hospital

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) developer VSM MedTech said that it has installed a MEG unit at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati.

March 8, 2006

Zonare releases new transducer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

VIENNA - Ultrasound technology developer Zonare Medical Systems unveiled a new transducer for its ultrasound systems this week at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR).

March 6, 2006

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