Digital X-Ray: Page 115

Airport security scanners carry some radiation risk

By Rebekah Moan

VIENNA - Airport security scanners are safe for individuals, but when their effects are considered collectively, there is still a risk of cancer developing due to the machines, ECR 2013 delegates learned at a standing-room-only session on Thursday afternoon.

March 7, 2013

Agfa gets Serbian DR contract

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare has won a direct radiography (DR) contract with a Serbian hospital, the company announced.

March 6, 2013

Ziehm to highlight product updates at ECR

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

C-arm developer Ziehm Imaging announced it will highlight updates to its Ziehm Vision mobile x-ray unit at ECR 2013.

March 6, 2013

Varian to highlight wireless x-ray detectors at ECR

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems plans to highlight its wireless image detector offerings at ECR 2013 in Vienna, the company said.

March 5, 2013

PerkinElmer to debut new x-ray detectors at ECR

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

PerkinElmer plans to highlight an expanded portfolio of amorphous silicon (a-Si) and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) flat-panel x-ray detectors at ECR 2013 in Vienna, the company announced.

March 5, 2013

Agfa awarded German DR retrofit contract

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare has won a contract with a German hospital to upgrade the facility's computed radiography units with Agfa's wireless detector direct radiography (DR) devices, the company said.

March 5, 2013

FDA clears Philips' live image-guidance tool

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Royal Philips Electronics, parent company of Philips Healthcare, announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its EchoNavigator live image-guidance tool.

March 4, 2013

Agfa finalizes Belgian DR order

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with Belgian university hospital UZ Brussels to implement its DX-D 800 direct radiography (DR) system in the hospital's emergency department.

March 4, 2013

CPI Canada completes installation in India

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

X-ray generator and radiography/fluoroscopy digital imaging systems developer CPI Canada has completed an installation of its CPI Rad Vision digital imaging system in Pune, India.

February 27, 2013

Unfors RaySafe brings RaySafe S1 to Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Testing-instruments provider Unfors RaySafe will debut its new RaySafe S1 software for the first time in Europe at ECR 2013.

February 27, 2013

Lung cancer x-ray screening in Italy shows positive results

By Cynthia E. Keen

A nearly decadelong lung cancer chest x-ray screening program of at-risk residents of the Varese province in Italy reduced the number of deaths attributed to lung cancer by 18%, according to findings published online in Lung Cancer. This study offers insights into the value of chest x-rays as a low cost screening tool.

February 24, 2013

French imaging societies release appropriateness guide

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

La Société Française de Radiologie and the Société Française de Médecine Nucléaire et d'Imagerie Moléculaire have published an updated guide to good imaging use aimed at helping health professionals determine when imaging is appropriate and which exams are appropriate for a given indication.

February 21, 2013

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