Radiologists use diagnostic imaging to non-invasively look inside the body to help determine the causes of an injury or an illness, and confirm a diagnosis. Providers use many imaging modalities to do so, including CT, MRI, X-ray, Ultrasound, PET and more.
Chest CT is routinely performed for things like lung cancer screening, coronary calcium assessment and pulmonary nodule surveillance, but the modality also can be used to extract additional information.
By highlighting subtle abnormalities that could otherwise be overlooked, an algorithm could potentially serve as an additional safety net when radiographic findings are indeterminate.
All Americans receive equally mediocre healthcare, regardless of race and economic status, according to a survey of nearly 7,000 patients published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
GE Healthcare — as with many of the big vendors at ACC06 in Atlanta this week — showcased its huge expanse of systems and applications driven towards aiding cardiology departments with treatment, diagnosis, and practice management.
GE Healthcare announced at ACC this week its sponsorship of the first in a series of multi-center, multi-patient trials to further validate the clinical efficacy of 64-slice CT as a method for the diagnosis and treatment planning of cardiovascular disease. The multi-center trial will use GE’s LightSpeed VCT system.
CT angiography can cut the time and costs needed to evaluate acute chest pain and quickly diagnose and treat heart attacks, according to a study this week presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta titled “Immediate Coronary Artery Computed Tomographic Angiography Rapidly and Definitively Excludes Coronary Artery Disease in Low-Risk Acute Chest Pain (Abstract 807-8).”
Medicalis Corp. is announcing the incorporation of Medicalis evidence-based guidelines with Cerner Corp.'s Discern Advisor – the latest innovation to Cerner's clinical decision support engine, Discern Expert.
Zonare introduced its new Zone Speed Technology (ZST) at ECR 2006 in Vienna, Austria, last week which is enabled through Zone Sonography technology as part of the company’s z.one ultrasound system.
Array Corporation introduced at the ECR 2006, last week in Vienna, Austria, the Array 2908 MammoPro, a self-contained, touch screen-controlled, tabletop mammography film digitizer that combines PC connectivity and high-end scanning technology into one small unit.
