Keywords: Diagnostic Imaging
04/30/2008
From head to toe
The new Philips 256-slice Brilliance iCT came in to use recently at the University Hospital in Ulm. The system produces quick, high-res scans with 80% less radiation. …
04/30/2008
The contrast media controversy
Before discussing a possible connection between gadolinium and nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), Dr Herborn offered a brief background: …
04/30/2008
Fully digital X-ray based 3-D imaging drives MIS
In recent years, intra-operative 3-D C-arm imaging has revolutionised orthopaedics and trauma surgery. In particular using the images created during an operation, C-arms with 3-D …
04/30/2008
System speeds up CT reconstructions
During ECR 2008, the Canada-based Acceleware Corporation, which develops acceleration solutions for high-performance computing, demonstrated its new AxRecon image reconstruction …
04/30/2008
Accessing and manipulating patient data
Combining the advantages of a traditional hospital light box with the features of computer workstations, BrainLAB has produced the Digital Lightbox which is certainly unlike …
04/24/2008
Siemens Healthcare without Erich Reinhardt
Erich Reinhardt, CEO of Siemens Healthcare, will resign effective April 30, in conjunction with compliance violations within Siemens medical group. Reinhardt, 61, was not …
03/10/2008
Finland Near Completion of National Electronic Patient Record
A national electronic patient records (EPR) archive that is estimated to manage 550 pentabytes (PB) of data by 2025 is nearing completion in Finland. Its first component, an …
03/10/2008
Financing State-of-the-Art Technology
Hospitals concerned about the accuracy of utilization predictions of new diagnostic imaging equipment will be interested in pay-per-use financing that is being offered by global …
03/10/2008
Dynamic processes and volume in one capture
During a Toshiba press conference on Monday at ECR 2008, Prof P. Rogalla Chief Radiologist CT and Prof R. Klingebiehl, Department of Neuroradiology both of the Charité …
03/10/2008
Dynamic volume CT - the impact on neuro-imaging
A 320-row CT scanner (Aquilion One, Toshiba Medical Systems Co., Tokyo, Japan) was installed for the first time in Europe, at the Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, in …
03/09/2008
Ziehm Imaging expands partner network
Ziehm Imaging, provider of mobile X-ray based imaging systems (C-arms) and the French medical technology company Praxim announced a strategic partnership to utilize long …
03/09/2008
High Speed MRI Devices Gaining Use in Foetal Evaluation
Magnetic resonance imaging is increasingly gaining importance as a second imaging process in prenatal diagnosis in addition to ultrasound examination, Dr. Daniela Prayer, a …
03/09/2008
Matrox launches Xenia Series at ECR
At this years ECR, Matrox, leading manufacturer of specialized graphics solutions for professional markets such as medical imaging, launched the Matrox Xenia Series controller …
03/09/2008
Personalised medicine?
How do you treat the HIV-positive, diabetic, schizophrenic patient presenting with chest pain? By making the necessary information available for personalised medicine …
03/08/2008
Volumetric X-ray provides depth information about structure of interest
A new volumetric X-ray application, showcased at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, Austria, provides physicians with multiple high-resolution slice images of the human …
03/08/2008
Primovist shows positive results
Bayer Schering Pharma presented the latest data from a health-economic evaluation of Primovist in the diagnosis of liver metastases. The results indicate that MRI using the …
03/08/2008
Agfa HealthCare to present its CR portfolio
Agfa HealthCare presents its entire Computed Radiography (CR) solutions range at ECR 2008 in Vienna. From desktop and compact solutions to groundbreaking Computed Radiography …
03/03/2008
CT: Overuse in emergencies, but top value for trauma cases
Over the last three decades CT has become a premier diagnostic tool for the evaluation of the acute patient. Over the past ten years in Israel, we have seen an overwhelming …
03/01/2008
Thin client products aim to unleash the potential of scanner technologies
The Visage Thin Client product range on show at the ECR provides a fully-integrated system with advanced tools for 2-D, 3-D, and 4-D image review and interpretation, …
03/01/2008
Mental health and radiology
The Uliazpi Foundation in Spain, which studies and cares for severely mentally retarded patients, carried out an interesting study to identify bone mineral density values in a …
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