A multidisciplinary clinical team at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami has performed the first focused ultrasound procedure on a 21-year-old patient who suffers from seizures linked to a non-cancerous hypothalamic hamartoma brain tumor.

Outstanding Image Quality and Intuitive Ergonomics Help Improve Diagnostic Confidence and Patient Care

Outstanding Image Quality and Intuitive Ergonomics Help Improve Diagnostic Confidence and Patient Care

Toshiba Medical introduced the latest iterations in their Aplio line of ultrasound scanners: the Aplio i700, i800 and i900. Increased computing power and updated beam technology expand the systems’ ability to image the musculoskeletal system, providing accurate diagnoses of sprains, strains, tears and other soft tissue conditions.

System Design Enhances Views of Moving Structures, Eliminates Angle Limitations of Traditional Doppler Ultrasound

The approval of two new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes acknowledges echocardiographic myocardial strain imaging and myocardial contrast perfusion echocardiography as emerging technologies, often a necessary step before a code is promoted to payable status.

Ultrasound imaging permanently changed the abortion debate by allowing people to physically see the fetus, a development that was quickly mobilized by pro-life activists.

Ultrasound centers in Ontario just got a little busier, owing to an ongoing reimbursement dispute between Quebecer private imaging clinics and the Quebec public health insurance agency (RAMQ).