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. 

IMRIS Unveils New Brand and Comprehensive Consulting Services at 2017 Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting

BOSTON – IMRIS, the global leader in intraoperative imaging, unveiled its new corporate brand identity and its comprehensive consulting services approach during the 2017 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual Meeting in booth #601.

UC Berkeley to use $13.4M NIH grant to improve neuroimaging

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have lofty goals. They want to use a $13.43 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve functional MRI techniques to improve resolution in imaging by a factor of 20.

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Radiologists, meet your EMR ‘reference librarian’

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Jeffrey B. Mendel, MD, former Chair of Radiology and Chief of Radiology Informatics at, respectively, Tufts-affiliated St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston and Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, shares an anecdote.

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MITA issues guidelines for live model ultrasound scanning

The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) issued new guidelines for live model ultrasound scanning for educational purposes.

Ultrasound tech sees big business in stuffed animals

Purusha River knew what she wanted to do the minute she saw it. Just 19 years old, River went with a friend for her fetal ultrasound. The next day, River changed her major and pursued a career in ultrasound technology.

Regulating AI: Is it possible?

Is it possible to regulate AI? If so, how would the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) do it?

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Neurologists prefer structured MRI reports when evaluating MS patients

Structured MRI reports of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are more helpful to neurologists and provide much more key information than nonstructured reports, according to a new study published by the American Journal of Roentgenology.

NIH Clinical Center issues 100K x-ray images for machine learning

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center released over 100,000 anonymous chest x-ray images and associated data to the national scientific community. These images were made available for artificial intelligence and machine learning purposes.

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And it can do so with almost 100% accuracy as a first reader, according to a new large-scale analysis.

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.