Search Tag: medical imaging
2024 06 Oct
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2023 09 Aug
Located in the capital city of Zagreb, the teaching hospital Sisters of Charity is a prestigious medical institution boasting a tradition spanning over 180 years, making it one of the oldest and largest in the Republic of Croatia. This state-of-the-art centre offers an extensive range of medical services while maintaining a strong focus...Read more
2023 23 Jun
Isala overcomes daily challenges with contextflow ADVANCE Chest CT More patients in the healthcare system - that's what healthcare economists predict – and that means more radiological examinations and findings. "If the predictions come true, we will have to become more efficient in what we do. I see artificial intelligence (AI) as part of...Read more
2023 21 Jun
Months ago, concerns were raised about the deteriorating wait times for critical medical imaging in British Columbia, warning of potential consequences such as an influx of cancer cases. Now, radiologists in the province are revealing that privately-run clinics, responsible for half of the screenings, are facing severe underfunding that may result...Read more
2023 31 Oct
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2023 19 Jun
United Imaging Healthcare , a company that develops and manufactures equipment for medical and molecular imaging, radiotherapy, and life science instrumentation, and provides smart digital solutions to customers worldwide, announces a major partnership in France with Qualimedis, a company that provides several innovative products and quality assurance...Read more
2023 15 May
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) found that after analysing crowd-sourced sets of data used to create AI algorithms from medical images, most did not contain demographic data. In addition, they found the algorithms were not evaluated for inherent biases. This implies that researchers or clinicians who may...Read more
2023 03 Mar
Unfortunately, burnout comes with intangible symptoms that we do not see every day. High levels of stress are documented among staff in the radiology department, and it seems there is an urgent requirement for intervention to be implemented. A national survey was conducted in Italy to measure the risk of burnout among radiographers before and...Read more
2023 02 Mar
-- along with a series of other groundbreaking technologies The world's first whole-body ultra-high field 5.0T MRI, the uMR Jupiter 5.0T, was unveiled for the first time internationally along with United Imaging Healthcare's comprehensive flagship products across all modalities, including PET/CT, PET/MR, MR, CT, and DR, at the European Society...Read more
2022 06 Nov
A team of researchers at the Beckman Institute received a four-year $2M award in funding from the National Institutes of Health to create a device that could make high-quality medical imaging more accessible in diverse communities. Professor Pengfei Song,researcher at the Beckman Institute, reinforces the importance of ensuring that ultrasounds...Read more
2021 14 Dec
Global Service Transformation Wins Project of the Year Award from PMI Rochester Carestream Health recently completed a significant company-wide business transformation aimed at improving service delivery and support to its medical/radiology customers, which in turn helps them to provide more reliable and complete imaging support for their...Read more
2021 05 Nov
A research team, led by investigators at the University of California, Davis, and Hamamatsu Photonics, has demonstrated the first experimental cross-sectional medical image that doesn't require tomography. The work, published 14 October in Nature Photonics , could allow medical imaging with better sensitivity and time resolution. Normally, X-ray...Read more
2020 19 Oct
Cybersecurity issues have been affecting the healthcare sector in recent years. As the use of the internet has expanded over the last two decades, hospitals worldwide have also adopted technology. Patient health information and electronic health records are now used routinely in healthcare. However, while this adoption of technology is a positive...Read more
2020 18 Sep
Healthcare institutions perform imaging studies for a variety of reasons. While these imaging studies are helpful, very few have clinical therapeutic value. To avoid redundancy and ensure meaningful endpoints to imaging studies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has now been introduced to the world of medical imaging. AI involves the use of computerised...Read more
2020 27 Mar
Protecting patients from over-exposure to radiation is part of the daily life of healthcare professionals in medical imaging. Justification, optimization, ALARA’s approach – these principles are necessary to reduce the dose delivered to the patient.Moreover, numerous legal regulations (directives, the public health code) now make it compulsory...Read more
2020 31 Jan
Even today, finding the right balance between image quality and the radiation dose remains a core issue in medical imaging. Although medical imaging is one of the most useful modern medical tools, the use of ionizing rays in imaging undeniably entails various risks. There are many methods for reducing doses while obtaining an image quality clear...Read more
2019 02 Jul
Micro-X and Thales join forces to anticipate the growing needs of the 3D imaging market. Micro-X, the global leader in cold-cathode X-ray technology, and Thales, leader in security and medical imaging, are looking to develop X-ray imaging systems based on X-ray sources using Carbon NanoTubes (CNT) cathodes technology. The combination of...Read more
2019 20 Jun
Advanced visualization and artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider, TeraRecon , today announced it has successfully completed an FDA regulatory review of its Northstar™ AI Results Explorer, for which the technology and the determination are both firsts-of-kind in the medical imaging industry. Northstar is designed to work alongside the company’s...Read more
2019 10 Jun
Advanced visualization and artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider, TeraRecon , today announced that it has reached agreement with Insignia Medical Systems to make its EnvoyAI™ platform available to Insignia’s vast PACS and Regional Image Sharing Platform (RISP) networks currently running in over 200 United Kingdom (U.K.) healthcare sites. ...Read more