It depends on how many different ways you want to measure it, says Daryl Eber, MD, co-founder and CMO of itMD.

Putnam Plastics of Dayville, CT is commercializing a proprietary plastics extrusion process that could develop non-metal custom monofilaments for MR and X-Ray devices, the company announced this week.

Lingering doubts about the image quality generated by open-bore MRI technology have, perhaps, unfairly held up its adoption. When a pair of radiology organizations set up the equivalent of an MRI Pepsi® challenge in their respective practice environments, staff members at both locations were surprised at the response.

Hitachi Medical Systems today received FDA clearance to market its Echelon Oval Ultra-Wide MR system, which boasts the widest design of any MR unit on the market.

Reportlinker.com has released a new report, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems: Global Market Outlook 2012-2022, that finds that MRI represents the fastest growing segment of the global medical imaging market.

Many of the accidents that spurred press coverage of CT overdoses in recent years occurred in California. This led to enactment of the state’s SB 1237 (and subsequent cleanup legislation), which will take effect on July 1, 2012. The law’s basic provisions are that the so-called CT dose—the volumetric CT dose index and the dose–length product—must

Carestream received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its DRX-Revolution Mobile X-Ray System, and is now available in the U.S., along with Europe and Canada.

Acting on orders from the FDA, federal marshals siezed a quantity of ultrasound transmission gel from its New Jersey manufacturer after the product was found to have been tainted with dangerous bacteria.