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Siemens Healthcare has introduced its Excel Edition 16- and 64-slice CT scanners, the Somatom Emotion and Somatom Definition AS CT, which are reportedly equipped with features to help reduce radiation dose.
Written by Mike Bassett
As the U.S. population gets increasingly older (the number of Americans over 65 is expected to increase a little more than 12 percent now to almost 20 percent by 2030), the demands on the nation’s health system—particularly in the area of cardiology—will continue to multiply.
Siemens Healthcare will supply diagnostics imaging equipment to all Ministry of Health hospitals (approximately 100) across Iraq.
Time-resolved MR angiography (TR-MRA) is a useful sequence for the assessment of ovarian vein reflux, which may aid the evaluation of pelvic congestion syndrome, according to research published this month in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Siemens Healthcare has entered into a value-added reseller agreement with Turkish healthcare solutions company, Simeks Tibbi Sistemler Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi, to sell Soarian MedSuite, Siemens' hospital information system.
Volumetric oblique coronal reformations are a useful noninvasive method to provide diagnostic information about periampullary abnormalities as well as show secondary features important for local staging and management of the ampulla of Vater, according to research published this month in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
The 11C Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) has shown that it is a useful marker for amyloidosis, a pathogenic process in Alzheimer’s disease (AD); however, a facility must have an on-site cyclotron to produce the compound. A multinational team of researchers has found that the 18F-labeled thioflavin derivative of PiB, 18F-flutemetamol, shows promise for amyloidosis affinity, according to research published in this month’s Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Although measured glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is the best overall index of renal function, determining this measurement can be both costly and time consuming. A technique employing advanced visualization technology holds promise for both a quicker and lower-cost method of estimating GFR, according to research published this month in Radiology.
DR Systems has reached a settlement with eRad, leaving NovaRad as the last defendant in a patent infringement lawsuit over a feature on a PACS diagnostic reading workstation.
When ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM)-3D SPECT is used, patients stand to benefit from a lower radiopharmaceutical dose, being scanned in half the time it would take to undergo standard filtered back projection (FBP) imaging, or a combination of these advantages, according to research published in this month’s issue of Radiology.
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Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
Concern about the cancer risk from low medical level radiation, particularly low-dose radiation delivered from CT scans, has been growing in the healthcare community.
The Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, part of the Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del., has updated its ONCOR linear accelerator with the 160 MLC multileaf collimator from Siemens Healthcare.
Written by Mike Bassett
CHICAGO—With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) has “found its moment in time,” said David Mendelson, MD, chief of clinical informatics and director of radiology information systems at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, during a session at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting on IHE and integration issues.
Bassetlaw Hospital in Nottinghamshire, England, which is part of the U.K.'s Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has installed a Magentom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI, Artis zee Multipurpose C-arm and Somatom Sensation CT from Siemens Healthcare.
Siemens Helthcare reported that Ingalls Health System and St. Peter’s Hospital have successfully launched the firm's Soarian Clinicals healthcare information system in their facilities.
CT arthrography may offer comparable sensitivity and specificity as MR arthrography for the detection of repeat superior labral anterior-to-posterior (SLAP) tears, according to a retrospective analysis published this month in Radiology.
Tumor cell proliferation and repopulation contribute to resistance to chemoradiotherapy in head and neck cancer. The PET tracer 3'-deoxy-3'-(18)F-fluorothymidine ([18]F-FLT) can image tumor cell proliferation before and during radiotherapy, and it may provide biologic tumor information useful in chemoradiotherapy planning, according to research conducted at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and published in the July issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Lowering the peak kilovoltage setting for pulmonary CT angiography leads to superior vascular enhancement without a deterioration of image quality, according to the results of a retrospective study published in this month’s American Journal of Roentgenology.
Siemens Healthcare has obtained FDA 510(k) clearance for its Biograph TruePoint 16-slice PET/CT system, which is now commercially available. The company has also filed an exploratory Investigational New Drug application with the FDA for an agent to image amyloid plaque, which is associated with Alzheimer's Disease.
Siemens Healthcare will install its 300th Somatom Definition AS (Adaptive Scanner) CT at Community Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Staunton, Ill.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.