A hybrid SPECT/CT scanner from Siemens Healthcare, the Symbia T TruePoint, has been installed in the muclear medicine department at Southend Hospital, part of Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Essex, U.K.
DMS Health Technologies, an operating company of Otter Tail and a distributor of Philips Healthcare's diagnostic imaging equipment for the upper Midwest, has expanded its nuclear medicine equipment sales in the Midwest.
Cardinal Health has entered an agreement with ProVision Healthcare to manage and operate its cyclotron facility in Knoxville, Tenn.
Structural, functional and molecular imaging in patients with brain tumors is feasible with diagnostic imaging quality using simultaneous hybrid PET/MRI acquisition, according to a study published in this month’s Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
A reconstruction algorithm based on graphic processing unit platforms originally designed for 3D video games could yield a 10-fold reduction in the amount of radiation patients receive during cone beam CT scans, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) on July 21.
PACSGear, a distributor of imaging connectivity for EHRs, has signed the Fundação Instituto de Pesquisa e Estudo de Diagnóstico por Imagem in São Paulo, Brazil, as its first site in Latin America.
Written by Mary Tierney
Some progress is being made to avert the widespread molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) shortage in the U.S., but it’s not enough in the short term and especially not in the long term, according to Robert Atcher, PhD, MBA, immediate past president of SNM and University of New Mexico/LANL professor of pharmacy, bioscience division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, White Rock, N.M. Atcher spoke to members of the press Monday at the 57th annual meeting of SNM.
The journey to create a certification exam to evaluate imaging informatics professionals has taken several years and hundreds of volunteer hours. The process, both “slow and deliberate,” involved practicing informaticists closely scrutinizing the results of each test to ensure the societies are providing a “useful instrument” for professionals to improve their careers, according to a review in this month’s issue of the Journal of Digital Imaging.
Diagnostic imaging systems provider Toshiba America Medical Systems has installed its Vantage Titan open-bore MR system at Bellevue, Wash.-based Overlake Hospital.
While fitted average patient sizes are age dependent, predicted individual patient size does not correlate well with age on CT images, said the results of a study published in the June edition of the American Journal of Roentgenology, aimed at modeling optimal x-ray exposure factors in children.
West Physics Consulting has entered into an exclusive arrangement with Digirad to provide radiation safety oversight and technical consulting services for Digirad's diagnostic imaging leasing services division, Digirad Imaging Solutions.
ImaginAb and the GlaxoSmithKline’s Clinical Imaging Centre have concluded two research collaboration agreements around a clinical therapeutic antibody asset currently under development by GlaxoSmithKline in the field of oncology.
Diagnostic imaging and Healthcare IT solutions provider Agfa healthcare has signed an agreement with the Sao Paolo, Brazil-based Fundação Instituto de Pesquisa e Estudo de Diagnóstico por Imagen (FIDI) for the delivery and installation of its solutions across the facility's 25 sites.
Diagnostic imaging service provider InSight Imaging has partnered with health information management provider MobileMD to provide its imaging centers and physicians with rapid access to clinical information, improved physician alignment and enhanced patient care.
According to a report released on May 5 from healthcare market research consulting firm IMV, remote links to equipment service providers are helping hospitals address imaging equipment service costs.
Diagnostic imaging and health IT technologies provider Agfa HealthCare has announced the availability of its DX-D 500 direct radiography system in Canada.
For the 2010 second quarter, Siemens AG recorded a revenue of €18.23 billion ($24.1 billion), down 4 percent compared to the prior-year period, on single-digit declines in energy and industry and stable revenue in the healthcare unit. Simultaneously, Siemens announced the restructuring of its healthcare unit.
Diagnostic imaging and medical IT manufacturer Fujifilm Medical Systems has announced the recipients of the 2010 American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) educational grants.
Tuesday, April 27 2010
RadNet, a provider of fixed-site outpatient diagnostic imaging services through a network of 185 outpatient imaging centers, has acquired three multi-modality facilities from the Sonix Medical Resources’ bankruptcy proceeding in New York.
Based on a study in the April 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the use of diagnostic imaging studies in cancer patients covered by Medicare is growing--with the use of PET imaging most significantly increasing--and costs for this patient population are growing at twice the rate of the overall costs of cancer care. However, while imaging costs are increasing, as of 2006 these costs still made up less than 6 percent of the overall healthcare costs for cancer patients, the study's lead author Michaela A. Dinan, BS, said in an interview.
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