2006 April

The reality of the medical display world is that all liquid crystal displays (LCDs), both monochrome and color, are associated with potential quality issues. Two key quality issues are non-uniformity and spatial noise.

Until recently, medical display quality assurance (QA) options were limited to two, not-so-ideal solutions. Workstation-based QA controls calibration and centralized QA management on one local reading seat. It’s a tedious, labor-intense (and expensive) process that requires an IT staffer to individually check each medical display.

Radiologists’ cries are getting louder—and being heard—as hospitals are beginning to attend to reading room design. This month Health Imaging & IT takes you inside some of the country’s best (and one of the worst) reading rooms.

There’s lots of good news for PACS administrators these days. Their position is solid, essential to the radiology department — and now even enterprise-wide image access — and salaries are growing.

Lung CAD is beginning to make its mark, and systems are evolving with an eye toward improving sensitivity and reducing false positives.

Multislice CT scanners provide unprecedented imaging capabilities, but they require a considerable change in workflow.

Recent DMIST validation of full-field digital mammography’s benefits has propelled the technology to rapidly growing, widespread usage.

Now that disaster recovery plans are a HIPAA requirement, many healthcare facilities are giving priority to its implementation.

Historically, the OR has been behind in deploying PACS. But the era of the filmless OR has arrived for some innovative facilities.

When you increase volume, you have to change the way you work. I know all about that as a Mom of five boys ranging from 17 months to 12 years. Multislice CT, 64-slice in particular, is imaging’s hungry quintuplets.