2005 June

PET-CT systems boost confidence in staging cancers, evaluating effectiveness of treatment and guiding biopsies.

While nuclear medicine departments tout their own image management solutions, integrating with conventional hospital PACS poses a challenge.

Cardiac CT is hitting its stride with 64-slice scanners, providing high-quality, non-invasive diagnostic information.

Newer versions of pathology software include image capture modules that allow digital images to be appended to patient reports, however, some pathologists question their necessity.

Workflow efficiencies must be refined for facilities working in digital, analog and mixed mammography environments.

The PET-CT market is growing off the charts. Like a teenager's surging need for several additional meals a day and ever-rising high waters pant hem (and constant instant messaging!), PET-CT is pushing the limits of hospitals and health systems in terms of PACS, image volume and reading, network traffic, and image storage and archiving.