Digital X-Ray: Page 113

Could chest tomo be a first-line lung cancer screening tool?

By Kate Madden Yee

With all the attention being paid to CT lung cancer screening, what about x-ray? Italian researchers believe that radiology's oldest modality could be revived as a screening tool with a technological twist -- digital tomosynthesis. They describe their findings in the June edition of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

June 5, 2013

How safe are you? Psychopaths attack radiologists in Belgium

Earlier this year, two radiologists were physically attacked as they worked in their hospital in Belgium. One of them tells AuntMinnieEurope.com about the frightening ordeal, and talks about the lessons for clinical radiologists who are in ever closer contact with patients.

June 4, 2013

Carestream secures Dutch orders

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Carestream Health's Dutch distributor Tromp Medical has taken orders for more than three dozen Carestream products in recent months.

June 2, 2013

New recommendations published on imaging and pregnancy

By Philip Ward

The U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has updated its guidelines on the measures routinely taken in imaging departments to protect unborn children from irradiation. There is evidence the incidence of childhood cancer may rise slightly following in utero irradiation before a period has been missed, says the RCR's Dr. Pete Cavanagh.

June 2, 2013

New BJR study assesses measurement of CR image quality

By Rebekah Moan

Medical physics experts may now use the image quality metrics described in a British Journal of Radiology study in quality assurance programs and optimization studies with a degree of confidence -- they reflect the clinical image quality in chest computed radiography (CR) images acquired without an antiscatter grid.

May 30, 2013

Fuji adds tomo feature to FDR AcSelerate

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Fujifilm Medical Systems has added a digital tomosynthesis option to its FDR AcSelerate digital radiography system.

May 23, 2013

AuntMinnieEurope.com Digital X-Ray Insider

By Philip Ward

May 22, 2013

EOS highlights new clinical study in Toronto

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Orthopedic digital imaging firm EOS Imaging announced that new research shows its EOS digital radiography system offers more accurate lower limb imaging with significantly lower radiation exposure compared with computed radiography and CT scans.

May 22, 2013

Electronic x-ray records can help set dose reference levels

By Philip Ward

Patient dose audits employing vast numbers of electronic examination records obtained from a radiology information system are feasible, and by using existing x-ray tube calibration data, an IT-based approach is a cost-effective method for both patient dose and clinical audit, U.K. researchers have found.

May 22, 2013

Philips promotes new x-ray dose study at EuroPCR

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Royal Philips Electronics, parent company of Philips Healthcare, in a joint study with the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands and Main-Taunus Cardiac Center in Germany, has announced that a 50% reduction in x-ray dose may be achieved in image-guided cardiac interventions using the AlluraClarity angiography system with ClarityIQ technology.

May 20, 2013

Better patient positioning cuts dose in x-ray of spine

By Rebekah Moan

Patients lying supine for lateral lumbar spine examinations will receive a higher x-ray dose under single automatic exposure control and without tube potential change than if they had been lying on their side, U.K. researchers have found.

May 15, 2013

Fuji launches new FDR AcSelerate application

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Fujifilm Medical Systems has launched a new energy subtraction application for its digital radiography device, FDR AcSelerate, the company said.

May 15, 2013

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