Mobile positioning table takes heavyweights
To gain approval from US and other global markets, Provotec GmbH & Co KG, of Espelkamp, Germany, increased the patient load of its Prognost XPE tables.
Ultrasound
Hospital Manager Symposium at ECR 2007
For Christian Herold, President of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2007, the Hospital Manager Symposium is one of the annual highlights of the congress.
Cardiac diagnostics: MRI, CT or echocardiography?
Thanks to more precise imaging, cardiac diagnostics is becoming more reliable and technological advances in imaging procedures are rapid.
A world of innovation
The first highlight is the expansion of IMPAX 6, the globally successful web-based PACS for diagnostic mammography.
2007 Congress will welcome radiologists to Vienna
The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) is a never-ending story of surprises, excitement, and success. Year after year, more scientists, radiologists eager to learn, and partners from industrial companies flock to this excellent meeting.
Patient dies after X-Ray blunder
ONE patient died and 13 others were seriously affected by an overdose of X-ray radiation at a hospital in Epinal, north-east France.
Strengthening professionalism
From November 26 to December 1, 2006, the Windy City - Chicago, Illinois - was the destination for radiologists from all over the world.
RSNA 2006 — Strengthening Professionalism
RSNA 2006 - that means six days of educational programmes, 1,625 scientific papers, more than 300 refresher courses and 738 technical exhibits on 514,800 square feet. The 92nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) which takes place in Chicago from 26 November to 1 December will once again be the highlight of the year for those who are in touch…
Accuvix XQ upgraded
Accuvix XQ, made by Korean firm Medison (pioneer of the first commercial real-time 3-D US scanner) has been upgraded and re-released as Accuvix XQ Prestige06.
Why standards matter
Better measurement standards for high-intensity focused-ultrasound (HIFU) are necessary.
New possibilities for the first trimester of pregnancy
New ultrasound technologies detect foetal heart defects earlier.
The SonoAce X8
Eliminating Windows-based image protocols, SONOACE in Germany, has produced the SonoAce X8 which, the firm reports, is the first Smart S/W protocol-based ultrasound image processing system.
Ultrasound: New Guidelines
Guidelines increase the use of contrast agents.
Vision Inside the Heart
A small, powerful new ultrasound catheter, named AcuNav 8F, improves access to the entire heart, Siemens Medical Solutions reports.
Increasing the range of minimally invasive tumour therapy
Surgery is no longer the automatic choice to eradicate malignant tumours.
The digital cath lab imaging system with fully-integrated IVUS
GE Healthcare and Volcano Corporation have combined GE's Innova digital X-ray cath lab system with Volcano's new PC-based IVUS platform.
Here - and the far horizons
Dr Hanns-Joachim Weinmann, Diagnostics and Radiopharmaceuticals, Magnetic Resonance Imaging & X-Ray Research, Schering AG, examines what is feasible and what still lies only at a tantalising distance.
Contrast agents
Generating targeting agents for diagnostics, prognostics and radiotherapy, by designing biochemically specific elements in contrast agents to be the targeting molecules attached to and carrying diagnostic or radiotherapeutic molecules to abnormal cells.
Privately-owned radiology group speeds diagnoses
We asked radiologist Cyrille H Benoit MD, Director of the Bellevue Zurich Radiology Institute, about the group's choice of radiology equipment - particularly its PACS - and the rules of reimbursement in the Swiss healthcare system.
Security alert
Security in hospitals is not easy. Thousands of patients, visitors, members of staff, as well as delivery and removal people, come and go, and with so many strangers inevitably on the scene, a perfect cover for opportunistic thieves is created, so the theft of small items is not uncommon.
The flat panel detector
Japan's first X-ray images were taken in 1896 - just months after Roentgen's discovery - by Professor Muraoka, of Kyoto University, and Genzo Shimadzu Jnr.
The tabletop film processor
Ecomax - a brand new plug and play system for analogue X-ray film processing - is being launched at the RSNA by Protec Medizintechnik GmbH & Co. KG.
Ultrasound: Improving performance and speeding up communication
At ECR 2006, Aloka will present three advanced products. Hans-Guido Sturk, the company's Product Line Manager, General Imaging, reports.
2nd International Conference on Reconstruction of Soft Facial Parts
When found at Winkeler Bay the woman had been dead for ten years, her body mutilated beyond recognition. In fact, no one was sure she would ever be identified. However, facial reconstruction techniques not only helped in her identification, but also prompted the hunt for her killer.
Ultrasound CT for early diagnosis
Karlsruhe, Germany - A new type of ultrasound computed tomography (CT) system promising to improve diagnosis significantly is currently being developed at the Research Centre Karlsruhe.
