Imaging Informatics: Page 366

Telemis posts 2010 revenue increases

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

PACS vendor Telemis has posted increased revenue for its 2009-2010 fiscal year compared to the previous comparable period.

August 11, 2010

Best to drink bowel prep solution in split doses: study

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 9 - Drinking the bowel prep solution in two split doses provides the best colon cleansing before colonoscopy, a large study has shown. Results were published in the August issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

August 8, 2010

Combined PET/CT CAD improves lung nodule detection

By Eric Barnes

Researchers in Japan have developed computer-aided detection (CAD) software that detects lung nodules in PET/CT images of lung cancer screening patients. Applying a combined CAD system to both modalities instead of CT or PET alone nearly doubled the number of solitary pulmonary nodules detected.

August 5, 2010

Contrast US processing tool shows malignant liver lesions

By Eric Barnes

Swiss researchers have developed a real-time parametric imaging technique for distinguishing benign from malignant liver lesions easily and noninvasively using contrast-enhanced ultrasound. In its first clinical run, the method delivered high sensitivity and specificity in a patient cohort.

July 29, 2010

Carestream wins U.K. RIS install

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Carestream Health has won a contract with a U.K. healthcare network for its RIS package.

July 26, 2010

Minimal-prep VC gets new boost from dual-energy CT

By Eric Barnes

A new dual-energy CT electronic cleansing technique thoroughly outperformed an advanced single-source CT cleansing method in virtual colonoscopy in a recent study. The technique eliminated many common artifacts that have plagued investigational electronic cleansing techniques.

July 20, 2010

CO2 volumes higher than previous reports in VC

By Eric Barnes

Using more CO2 to insufflate the colon during virtual colonoscopy doesn't produce better distention, but patients with ileocecal valve incompetence -- most patients presenting for screening -- require more insufflation, say researchers from Ireland.

July 5, 2010

Sectra gets Norwegian PACS order

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra has inked an agreement with a public Norwegian hospital chain.

June 29, 2010

CT-based Crohn's diagnosis takes aim at endoscopy

By Eric Barnes

GENEVA - Japanese researchers hope to supplant the invasive and time-consuming process of diagnosing Crohn's disease with a CT technique that is unaffected by intestinal stenosis and other impediments to conventional endoscopic evaluation.

June 28, 2010

CAD eases MRI-based herniated disk diagnosis

By Eric Barnes

GENEVA - Herniated lumbar disks aren't the most common back injury, but when they occur they often require surgery. And diagnosis requires tedious manual measurements -- or at least it did until researchers from London found a way to automate the process.

June 27, 2010

Dutch study quantifies factors that make PACS work

By Eric Barnes

GENEVA - If you really want to find out how well PACS is working at your facility, you can follow your heart, the advice of experts, or the data, as researchers from the Netherlands have done. They discussed their work on quantifying the factors that make PACS useful at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery meeting.

June 24, 2010

TEPR founder sees big role for small systems in healthcare

By Eric Barnes

GENEVA - Radiology's once-clandestine toys -- mobile phone apps, iPads, iPhones, and the like -- are rising up to assume a central role in healthcare delivery, according to healthcare IT expert C. Peter Waegemann at the opening session of the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery meeting on Wednesday.

June 23, 2010

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