New Radiomicrosphere Therapy Shows More Effect With Molecular Imaging

A novel form of radiotherapy was unveiled at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 57th Annual Meeting. This technique, known as radiomicrosphere therapy, involves the injection of tiny highly radioactive beads that "nestle up" with cancerous tumors and destroy them with precision. "Radiomicrosphere therapy guided by molecular imaging is an emerging area of radiotherapy and has the potential to target treatments for cancer patients," said Ron Young, ....Read More

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Molecular Imaging Technologies By GE Healthcare For Improved Patient Experience

GE Healthcare is focusing improving patients’ experiences. GE helps clinicians by highlighting an innovative portfolio of molecular imaging technologies and agents at the 57th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), June 5-9, in Salt Lake City. “Our vision for the Molecular Imaging business is to apply innovation to improve the patient experience,” said Terri Bresenham, vice president of the GE Healthcare Molecular Imaging ....Read More

GE Healthcare Collaborates In A Trial For Investigational Molecular Breast Imaging System

GE Healthcare announced that it has collaborated in two clinical trials assessing the use of a novel technology, investigational Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI) system, that may assist in early detection of breast cancer in women who are at high risk for the disease. The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel and Hamilton Health Sciences Hospital in Ontario, Canada, were the two centers selected by GE as they have showed great intere ....Read More

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Tieto Develops New Hospital Reporting Tool

Tieto, a leadind IT firm from Finland, and the Central Hospital of Ostrobothnia in Finland, have developed a new reporting tool designed to produce versatile data from patient information systems to help resource allocation. This tool is built into Tieto’s Effica patient information system at the hospital and it allows statistics to be sent regularly and automatically via email. Data is produced for each clinician about the volumes of resource ....Read More
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Most Common Issues as Reported at SIIM 2010

Skip Kennedy, Kaiser Permanente talked about the top PACS problems. An important issue is what to do if the system goes down. One of the things people focus on is to get a better reliable system, in other words, how to get more "9’s in your uptime (99,999%?). However, each "9" relates to a substantial amount of investment and money. It might be better and more cost effective to come up with alternate workflows, a good test system, work- around, because a system will go down one time or another....Read More
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SIIM 2010, Products Highlights

Realizing the significant importance of SIIM 2010 annual meeting, a wide range of companies competed to showcase their products in the event. The SIIM 2010 was carried out under a key topic, which was "Value innovation through imaging informatics," The integrated learning sessions; represented a genuine chance for interaction between attendees and vendors. Caroline Wilson, a SIIM spokeswoman, said that the sessions "extend the opportunity for personal interaction, exchange and networking among attendees and exhibitors, thus creating a mutual benefit on the understanding of the application of imaging informatics to healthcare delivery,"...Read More
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A Special Report from SIIM 2010

At SIIM 2010, Herman Oosterwijk discussed issues that deal specifically with PACS connectivity. He outlined the following  problems:

• Network Issues: A well defined and managed network infrastructure is essential. Proper IP addressing and port number assignment has to be done. Duplicate IP addresses can create issues and are not always easy to troubleshoot. In case this is suspected, a “netscan” utility will show all IP addresses and potential duplicates. Note that DICOM devices rely on fixed IP addresses, as almost none of the PACS vendors make use of the dynamic configuration capabilities defined by the DICOM standard. Dynamic IP addressing is fine as long as the router does not re-assign them to a different address, e.g. when being re-booted or replaced. Note also that DICOM has an “official” assigned port number, i.e. port 11112, which is more reliable than the often used “well-known” port 104....Read More

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Ultrasound Can Heal Tissues, Study

Although ultrasound scans have proven its significance as a medical imaging technique, it appears that there are other advantages that are waiting to be taking from the widely-used procedure. A new study showed that using low frequency ultrasound waves can aid in healing of certain types of tissues in the body. The study was published in the Journal of Tissue Engineering. The frequencies of ultrasound waves used in diagnostic imaging are usually ....Read More

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PACS To Be Delivered To Eastern Europe

GE Healthcare and Euromedic Diagnostics have partnered to implement GEs’ web-based PACS to Euromedic’s facilities in Poland and Hungary. The system is designed to be implemented in 17 Polish and 11 Hungarian sites as well as a central data centre established in each country. Implementing the web-based Centricity PACS is going to provide more effective cooperation between healthcare professionals, since the system will facilitate image transf ....Read More

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Pediatric Residents Not Properly Requesting Imaging Exams

According to a new study, pediatric residents may be in need of more consulting with radiologists when requesting the suitable imaging exam recommended by the ACR. The study was published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR.) The study was titled “Online Survey of Radiologic Ordering Practices by Pediatric Trainees”, it was conducted by Hirsch, Ruzal-Shapiro, and Taragin. Researchers used an online survey carried on resi ....Read More

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