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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AAPM: Researchers develop nano-based x-ray for imaging, radiotherapy

A team of nanomaterial scientists, medical physicists and cancer biologists at the University of North Carolina has developed smaller, lower-cost x-ray tubes packed with sharp-tipped carbon nanotubes for cancer research and treatment. The technology was presented this week at the 2009 meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), in Anaheim, Calif.

Scots start SINAPSE for 'best practice' imaging

The Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) consortium is studying effective medical imaging methods to help diagnose and treat patients with Alzheimer's disease, stroke and cancer.

Microsoft seeks imaging industry input

HealthVault, Microsofts personal health record (PHR) product, is seeking comment from the diagnostic imaging IT development community on its initial draft design for medical image data types.

Congress members tout imaging benefits to Obama

Fifty-seven members of Congress have written a bipartisan letter to President Barack Obama, heralding the benefits of medical imaging and urging him to "consider the value of these life-saving technologies."

Imaging advances reduce likelihood of death from brain hemorrhage

Diagnosis and treatment improvements over the past 30 years have led to a 17 percent decrease in the likelihood of death from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in the general population, according to a meta-analysis published online June 4 in Lancet Neurology.

SIIM: Compressus updates MEDxConnect for enterprise imaging

Compressus is introducing MEDxConnect system version 2.6 at the 2009 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting this week in Charlotte, N.C.

Philips scores 10-year imaging contract with Barcelona hospital

The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona, Spain, and Royal Philips Electronics have signed a 10-year agreement to manage the imaging technology needs of the hospital's imaging diagnostics department.

Lightlab, GE form cardiac imaging alliance

LightLab Imaging, an optical imaging developer, and GE Healthcare have formed a collaboration to improve workflow between GE's Innova cardiovascular x-ray system and LightLab's C7-XR optical coherence tomography system.

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