Clinical News: Page 974

Imaging misrepresented on TV, claim U.K. radiographers

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The CEO and representatives of the U.K. Society and College of Radiographers (ScOR) met with managers from the BBC last week to discuss how radiography is portrayed in its television programs.

September 17, 2012

Image Gently expands dose reduction campaign to digital x-ray

By Cynthia E. Keen

The Image Gently radiation dose reduction campaign has launched a new initiative targeting the most common imaging exam of all: radiography. The group's new Back to Basics initiative, launched today, is intended to strengthen radiation protection in children as radiography shifts from analog film to digital x-ray.

September 17, 2012

Survey highlights different practices in CT dose reduction

By Frances Rylands-Monk

Every radiologist remains keen to reduce radiation dose, but not all of them are tailoring kVp values to suit individual patients, a questionnaire distributed among members of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging has revealed.

September 17, 2012

Manchester to ditch 'backscatter' x-ray airport scanners

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Manchester Airport in the U.K. announced on September 17 that it will not renew a program to test airport security scanners based on backscatter x-rays.

September 16, 2012

Philips, Biocompatibles announce deal at CIRSE

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Dutch multinational conglomerate Royal Philips Electronics, parent company of Philips Healthcare, and British medical technology company Biocompatibles have announced they will collaborate to advance the use of image guidance to control the delivery of beads during the arterial embolization of hypervascularized tumors.

September 16, 2012

Hands-on approach optimizes computed radiography performance

By Philip Ward

Automatic exposure control systems must be reconfigured when computed radiography is introduced, and regular quality assurance checks coupled with three yearly patient dose surveys allow optimum performance to be maintained, Scottish researchers have found.

September 16, 2012

Out-of-hours emergency CT transforms imaging landscape

By Dr. Neelam Dugar

Over the past decade, the increasing demand for emergency CT of the head, cervical spine, and body has led to a tenfold or more increase in the demand for radiologists being called out at night. At the same time, a similar revolution has occurred with the access to, and display of, images.

September 16, 2012

Ultralow-cost neonatal ultrasound unit developed

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

An ultrasound scanner costing less than 50 euros to manufacture and designed for neonatal examinations has been developed by engineers at Newcastle University in the U.K.

September 13, 2012

RepliGen withdraws application for MRI contrast agent

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Pharmaceutical company RepliGen Europe has withdrawn its application to the European Medicines Agency for a centralized marketing authorization for SecreFlo.

September 13, 2012

Philips supplies cardiac system to new U.K. facility

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare has announced the sale of an Allura Xper FD10 x-ray system to Luton and Dunstable Hospital in the U.K. for its new 5.5 million pound Cardiac Centre.

September 13, 2012

Maquet installs Siemens angio system at German site

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Technology developer Maquet has installed an Artis zeego angiography system from Siemens Healthcare in a new hybrid operating room at the Surgical Academy in Rastatt, Germany.

September 13, 2012

Virtual autopsy course planned for October

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The University of Leicester in the U.K., in collaboration with the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, is offering a series of courses on performing virtual autopsies and postmortem imaging, starting in October.

September 13, 2012

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