Researchers at the UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of aortic atherosclerosis can foresee the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular issues in healthy people. The study, which was published in the June issue of Radiology, is the first of i...

Based on a study released by doctors at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, patients are being exposed less and less to radiation during CT scans due to a new technology that allows doctors to successfully control and manage radiation doses. For amassed radiation exposure has eventua...

Cincinnati, USA, June 20, 2013 - Doctors at Cincinnati Children’s hospital have developed new technology that they say can reduce radiation exposure from CT scans by as much as 37 percent, according to new research. Software that bases radiation use on patients’ weight and size helps administer...

During the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) annually held in Vienna, Austria, radiologists and retailers alike met together in a four-day conference to discuss and witness the innovations of the Radiology world. Siemens CT was the main attraction of the four-day conference as it stationed and ...

At the International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT in Washington, DC, it was acknowledged that the field of Radiology has progressed a great deal over the years. Through the continuation of advancing CT image quality and managing radiation dosage, radiology, along with the assistance of imaging ...

The Montefiore Hospital in Brighton, part of the Spire Healthcare group, has installed a MAGNETOM® Aera MRI scanner and SOMATOM® Definition AS CT system from Siemens Healthcare. The installations follow the recent opening of the hospital at the end of 2012 and enable the provision of musculoskele...

At a conference held at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM)  it was pointed out that computerized physician order-entry (CPOE) technology is not only limited to physicians. CPOE software can be utilized by radiologists to properly call-for the scanner protocols that perform imagi...

According to a study published online in Radiology, it was reported that radiologists who read less than 1,000 mammography studies each year might see a decline in overall diagnostic accuracy, compared to those who read more. Likewise, researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia discover...

Denver, Colorado and Montreal, Canada – June 7, 2013 – Intelerad Medical Systems™, a leader in medical imaging PACS, RIS and workflow solutions, today announced the formation of a new Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Group. The Toronto-based group is made up of developers who will focus on add...

National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) researchers have finalized that the 20 percent decline in lung cancer fatality with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) opposed to chest X-ray (CXR) screenings previously accounted in the NLST first-round is attainable at skilled screening centers in the U.S. MD...