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
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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.
From experience - to experts
The Accutron HP-D - the first dual head contrast media power injector for angiography, intervention and computed tomography.
C-Arm technology in daily use
Last year, orthopaedics and sports medicine specialist Dr Rainer Burgkart (left), who is also a musculoskeletal researcher, selected a new C-Arm for use at the Technical University of Munich (Klinikum rechts der Isar). Recently, we asked him for the reasons behind this choice and his subsequent experience with this device.
Molecular imaging platform planned in Alsace
Alsace BioValley Competitivity Pole is partnering GE Healthcare in a feasibility study of the creation of a technology platform in various fields of molecular imaging to focus on research and translational medicine.
Innovative technology for automated lymph node analysis
At this year's RSNA meeting, Definiens, the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence company, will introduce a new image analysis application that will allow radiologists to analyse lymph nodes volumetrically and compare them over time.
Ultrasound imaging and vital signs monitoring products from China
Edan Instruments Inc., based in Shenzhen, China, is one of the leading medical equipment manufacturers involved in R&D, manufacturing and marketing.
The Carestream DRX-1
This September, Carestream Health revealed the first wireless cassette-size DR Detector. The Carestream DRX-1 system, which incorporates a console and wireless 14x17 inch cassette-size digital radiography (DR) detector, provides a rapid, affordable conversion for users of radiographic film or computed radiography systems, Carestream explains.
Test this clever motorised table at MEDICA and the RSNA
Provotec GmbH & Co KG reports that its Prognost XPE table series is now on sale globally.
itm Rhenium-PTA/PTCA®
'An effective, safe treatment for prophylaxis of restenosis in periphery and cardiology' — new generation of Endovascular Brachytherapy gains full CE-certification. Constricted blood vessels (stenosis and restenosis) can now sustainably be treated and kept open through the local treatment with beta radiation.
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*).
Mammography: What really counts?
The fact that the female breast is one of the most radiation sensitive organs in the human body is a major driver for all those searching for low radiation alternatives - one of these routes lies in photon counting.
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.
CT: Optimising dosage
AquilionONE is the first CT scanner capable of imaging whole organ regions up to a width of 16 cm in one rotation and within a split second. Based on the raw volume data, rapid dynamic processes within an entire organ (e. g. heart, pancreas, kidney or brain) may be diagnosed with a time interval of 50 ms, i.e. with a rate of 20 volumes per second.
'More knowledge — less dose'
X-rays are made up of high-energy photons. This type of radiation follows the physical laws of electromagnetic waves as well as of particles.
Tracking equipment performance is vital to control radiation dose
Although there should always be concern about radiation in a facility that uses X-ray to image patients, that concern is perhaps not as vocal as for CT or interventional radiology, according to physicist Jacqueline Gallet, Global Manager of Clinical Studies at Carestream Health.
The German Society for Senology 28th Annual Conference
In a pre-conference discussion with this year's President, Professor Hans-Heinrich Kreipe, Director of the Institute for Pathology at Hanover Medical School, he outlined the significance of MRI in breast cancer detection, and highlighted other topics for the event.
The joint AACC/AACB conference
The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) and the Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists (AACB) are joining together for the second time for a conference on major changes facing laboratorians in coming years, under the banner Laboratory Medicine - Into the Future.
World isotope shortage threatens scans
Due to its short "lifespan", molybdenum 99 (used to form technetium-99m which, when injected into patients is used as a tracer to help diagnose heart disease or bone cancer) cannot be stockpiled.
Integrated Diagnostic Imaging with Biograph mCT
Siemens Healthcare introduces molecular CT, a new concept in integrated imaging that provides a premium imaging platform, and is a practical solution for today's shrinking healthcare budget.