LOGIQ E9
GE Healthcare in unveiling LOGIQ E9, a pioneering sonography system that can generate a precise image fusion from CT/MRT and sonographic volume data, the firm reports.
Clinical applications of advancing high frequency ultrasound techniques
High frequency ultrasound (US) techniques continue to improve with better resolution and exquisite B Mode imaging, particularly with improved compounding techniques seen with the Aplipure+ product. However, particular focus has been on improving techniques for breast imaging and one distinctly novel idea is to highlight microcalcifications within tissues.
Portable real-time 3-D ultrasound for brain scans
USA - 3-D ultrasound technology developed at Duke University provides images of the brain vessels in real-time, which could be miniaturised in coming years for use in ambulances. In an initial pilot study, the system has passed the proof-of-principle.
HI VISION 900
Hitachi has developed a new abdominal sonography system, based on a fully digital platform with a unique high-performance computer and an innovative octal parallel wideband beamformer, the firm reports.
ProVision 80
ProVision 80, a shared-service colour Doppler all-digital system, provides an all-in-one solution for abdominal, obstetrics/gynaecology, cardiovascular, small parts, paediatric, and musculoskeletal applications, the manufacturer Chison Medical Imaging Co. reports.
Sonoelastography makes hardened cancer tissue visible
Sonoelastography, a procedure that measures the elasticity of tissue and differentiates between healthy and hardened pathological tissue, will make cancer diagnosis safer in the future. For example, it has been shown to improve the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis by 20%.
R-Bay
Inequalities in radiology services across Europe may be levelled out due to R-Bay, a new project in which a consortium of hospitals and healthcare providers will create an e-marketplace to sell and buy radiological services like commodities.
Elastoscan in mammary sonography
If, in the early days of mammary sonography, it was revealed to be helpful to render tactual findings in a visible manner (sonic palpation), then now is the time to palpate clinically occult findings in a new manner (Elastoscan).
Ruhr's centre of excellence for medical
The Centre for Medical Imaging Ruhr (zmb ruhr) in Bochum offers the technological infrastructure for the development of therapeutic and diagnostic imaging procedures. The primary focus is on ultrasound — the most commonly used imaging procedure in Germany, delivering the highest volume of examinations.
ACUSON S2000 with Virtual Touch improves liver diagnosis
Siemens Healthcare is showing a very innovative application on the new ACUSON S2000 ultrasound system. “The software packages Virtual Touch tissue imaging and Virtual Touch tissue quantification represent the clinical realisation of a method, previously known as Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) technology”, the firm explains.
First OCT tissue images
A UK collaboration, led by an optical imaging company has produced its first optical coherence tomography (OCT) tissue images at a wavelength of 1 µm. Based on interferometry, OCT works by analysing near-infrared light reflected from a sample and using differences in the reflected intensities to create high-resolution images. Employing 1 µm light - as opposed to the longer wavelength…
The Czech scene
Water and energy management (WEM) appears to be successfully handled by the majority of local healthcare institutions, because Czech hospitals do spend, on average 2-5% of their budgets these resources.
New concepts for dose reduction in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease with CT
Professor Stefan Schönberg of the Institute of Clinical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (IKRN), University Hospital Mannheim, Medical Faculty of Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, invited colleagues from Mannheim and the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BFS) in Neuherberg for a round-table discussion on: Non-invasive multidetector coronary CT angiography (CTA) has become an established…
Clinical radiologists must embrace their key role in the radiation protection debate
Most professionals will recognise issues that call for consideration in a wider context, a context that does not merely consider strictly professional issues, i.e. issues based upon facts and figures, write Johannes Gossner MD and Joerg Larsen MD FRCR, of the Institute for Roentgendiagnostics, Braunschweig Teaching Hospitals, Germany.
Article • Radiation management
'Dose hysteria' and the 320-slice CT scanner
Sometimes radiation dose is a topic discussed hysterically. Dose discussion is necessary, but should be carried out based on the highest levels of knowledge and seriousness. For the last few months, Dr Patrik Rogalla, Senior Consultant at the Charité, Berlin, specialist in diagnostic radiology and Head of the Computed Tomography Department at Campus Mitte, University Medicine Berlin, has been…
Radiation: How dangerous is it really?
Radiation can't be seen or felt; it has no smell and our senses can't feel it — still it can cause great harm. Therefore, many fears are associated with radiation.
Refurbished systems
ElsMed Ltd takes pride in providing fully-refurbished diagnostics equipment, servicing/training, application/clinical user training, parts and technical support, all reportedly at affordable prices.
Non-invasive diagnostic devices for sleep and endothelial function assessment
Bio-medical technology firm Itamar Medical Ltd develops and markets diagnostic medical equipment based on its proprietary Peripheral Arterial Tone (PAT) Technology.
37 French hospitals opt for Orbis
Agfa HealthCare has won a contract to install the Orbis Clinical Information System (CIS) in 37 hospitals in the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) group.
Targeting market needs
In October, the office of the Federal President announced that Professor Haverich, with his Hanover research team, has been nominated for the 'German Future Prize' for the development and successful use of adaptable biological heart valves
CALDose_X: Software to support patient-specific dosimetry
A team of researchers from Brazil recently published details of a free-to-air software called CALDose_X which is being billed as a milestone towards the goal of patient-specific dosimetry in X-ray diagnosis.
New solution accelerates patient care decision-making
Hitachi Data Systems and Mawell form strategic partnership to streamline the management of patient records and images: According to recent EU research, ever-lengthening life expectancy means that Europe's pensioner population is set to swell to more than 100 million by 2050.
WHO's FRAX incorporated into Hologic's bone densitometers
Led by Professor John Kanis, the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, at Sheffield University Medical School, UK, developed FRAX. This algorithm is based on individual patient models that integrate the risks associated with clinical risk factors as well as bone mineral density (BMD) at the femoral neck to calculate a patient's 10-year fracture risk.
20 years of contrast enhanced MRI at Bayer Schering Pharma
What was initially viewed with scepticism developed into an integral and indispensable part of modern imaging diagnostics
EVINCI
The European multi-centre, multi-modality cardiac imaging project that could lead to a more intelligent and less costly use of today's technology in cardiac care.