Radiology
Radiology
Radiology
Canon's New High-End PET/CT Scanner Unveiled
Canon Medical is releasing a new high-end digital PET/CT scanner at the upcoming RSNA conference in Chicago. The Cartesion Prime Digital PET/CT combines Canon's Aquilion Prime SP CT scanner and the SiPM (silicon photomultiplier) PET detector,...
Radiology
Siemens Healthineers Unveil SOMATOM X.cite Premium CT Scanner
Siemens Healthineers won FDA clearance and is releasing its brand new SOMATOM X.cite premium single-source CT scanner. The device, along with a high-end X-ray tube and other enhancements, features the company's new myExam Companion technology...
Radiology
Optical Coherence Tomography Finally Used to Measure Cartilage Health
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging modality that provides a micron-level look at the tissues being examined. It is used in ophthalmology to assess the eyes and for imaging the interior of arteries to help with atherectomies....
Radiology
Butterfly Network Expands Applications for Smartphone-Connected Ultrasound: Interview
Butterfly Network, the digital health unicorn democratizing medical imaging, is continuing to add new applications for its handheld, single probe, smartphone-connected ultrasound technology. The Butterfly iQ, the multi-purpose pocket-sized...
Radiology
MRI Maps to Track Effectiveness of Drug Releasing Implants
Drug-releasing implants may have significant benefits for treating a variety of diseases. They're already used in a few limited applications, but wider implementation has proven to be challenging because it is difficult to know how a drug moves...
Radiology
Omega FluoroShield FDA Cleared to Reduce Radiation Exposure
Omega Medical Imaging, a firm based in Sanford, Florida, has won FDA clearance for its FluoroShield technology, as well as the 2020 Cardiac Flat Panel Detector. FluoroShield automatically aims the radiation beam across the area of interest...
Radiology
MRI Metamaterials Drastically Enhance Imaging Quality
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires very expensive scanners, and special facilities to host them. As things stand, most hospitals around the world can't afford an MRI machine. Things may soon get a bit easier thanks to new metamaterials,...
Radiology
XACT Hands-free Instrument Placement Robot Cleared in U.S.
XACT Robotics, an Israeli company, just announced winning FDA clearance for its instrument steering and insertion system for percutaneous procedures. Used to perform procedures such as biopsies and ablations, the XACT device provides a great...
Radiology
Facial Recognition Software IDs Individuals from MRI Brain Scans
Clinical researchers regularly share data with other scientists. Typically, a great deal of effort is expended to make sure that individuals cannot be identified from the data that are generated from them. When sharing imaging information, such...
Radiology
