Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

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European womens imaging market to limp to $460M by 2016

Although most of the European womens health imaging system market will decline over the next five years, overall revenues will increase slightly as a result of growth in the breast imaging system segment, due to the introduction and adoption of more expensive and innovative systems, according to Millennium Research Group.

Visage updates enterprise imaging platform

Visage Imaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus, has released Visage 7.1, the latest version of the Visage 7 enterprise imaging platform.

Brooklyn imaging group installs GE wide-bore MRI

Bay Ridge Medical Imaging, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based radiology group, has installed GE Healthcares Discovery MR750w 3T MRI scanner.

Zecotek files imaging patent suit against Philips, Saint-Gobain

Zecotek Imaging Systems, a subsidiary of Zecotek Photonics, has started legal action in U.S. Federal District Court in Los Angeles against defendants Saint-Gobain and Philips Healthcare for infringement of Zecoteks U.S. Patent Number 7,132,060, which covers the substances and chemical formulations used to grow lutetium fine silicate scintillation crystals, typically used in imaging devices.

HIMSS: Mach 7 upgrades enterprise imaging platform suite

Mach 7 Technologies (Booth 1276), a developer of clinical image management systems, is introducing Keystone Suite, an enterprise clinical imaging platform (ECIP), at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Las Vegas Feb. 20-24.

No more hide and seek: Imaging helps prevent retained surgical items

Accidentally leaving a surgical tool in the body of a patient is a nightmare scenario that surgical teams have traditionally tried to avoid simply by countingand recountingitems used during operations. The University of Michigan (UM) Health System has developed a more modern system which improves coordination with the radiology department in order to prevent such surgical mishaps.

N.J. provider invests in molecular breast imaging

Capital Health, a hospital network based in New Jersey, has inked a contract with GE Healthcare to install GE's Discovery NM 750b at Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell in Pennington, N.J.

Johns Hopkins molecular imaging center delves into various cancers

The team at Johns Hopkins In-Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center in Baltimore is using novel imaging tools to discover new early detection methods for cancers existing in cells, and study its prevention and elimination before spreading to other organs and tissues.

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