TMI Launches Wireless Foot/Hand Switch For Mobile C-Arms And Cardiovascular Systems.

TransAmerican Medical Imaging (TMI) has announced the launch of the Spectre, a wireless foot switch and hand switch system for GE-OEC Series 9800 and 9900 mobile C-Arms, and the Philips Cardiovascular product line. 
Bob Woodward, TMI’s President, explaining the capabilities of Spectre: “The TMI Spectre replaces the hard-wired foot and hand switches found on GE-OEC Series 9800™ and 9900™ systems, and on Philips fixed Cardiovascular systems. The Spectre eliminates the most common problems found with wired controls: dirty and hard-to-clean cables on the floor, broken cables and it allows OR staff to operate a system from any convenient position near the X-Ray source. Since cables on the floor are also a tripping hazard, this new wireless technology is an effective safety improvement.”
The Spectre wireless system will operate within a radius of 50 feet from a connected system. Since it is not infra-red, it does not have to be “line of Sight”. It can also operate for 20 consecutive hours without the need to be charged. Recharging takes only 2-4 hours.

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Diopsys® CORDA™ New Imaging Software To Help Ophthalmologists

New developed software that is using existing Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) images will be released soon by Diopsys, Inc. This developed imaging software is going to help ophthalmologists and optometrists in procedures carried out for diagnosing retinal and optic nerve diseases like glaucoma, through providing them with thickness measurements of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer (RNFL). Moreover, this thickness may be affected in improper way by retinal vessels beside other things within the RNFL. 
Ophthalmologists and optometrists can reach for more accurate reading of the RNFL health from their OCT images, by using the new software (Diopsys® CORDA™) as it can analyze the inner building of the RNFL by the discrimination of its several components. So they can detect the disease and the vision disorders easily, which will be better for the sake of the patient.

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Radiation Risks Might Be Overestimated, Study.

Despite the dominant trend indicating that radiation exposure during diagnostic imaging carries various risks for developing cancer, a recent report presented December 2 at RSNA 2010 demonstrated that risks may be lower than expected.
Researchers at Stanford University conducted a retrospective study of CT exposure using Medicare claims from 1998 through 2005. The research calculated the ionizing radiation exposure of the exams and estimated the associated cancer risks.
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Two-photon Microscopy Technique To Monitor Immune Cells In Lung, Study.

According to UCSF-led study in mice, researchers improved a way to equalize living lung tissue for screening without disrupting the normal function of the organ. This way was used for the first time and it permitted the researching team to observe both the unfolding events in the immune response during lung injury and the live interaction of living cells in the context of their environment. The authors mentioned that, the capability to screen the lung and other organs with minimum tissue disruption permits scientists to look deeper into many physiological aspects of injury and diseases for instance, cancer and diabetes. 

Senior author Max Krummel, PhD, UCSF associate professor of Pathology, whose lab improved the recent screening technique for viewing minute details of cellular interaction in tissues, reported "The nature of disease is complex, so if scientists can observe in real-time what's happening in tumors or immune responses as they occur, we can find new ways to intervene. We figured out a method for holding cells still enough to image them without interrupting their normal processes. This enabled us to observe cellular events as they happen naturally rather than the usual way, which is to stop the motion of cellular processes in order to photograph them."
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Cone Beam CT To Aid Mammography, Study.

At the Radiological community of North America Annual Scientific Assembly in Chicago, Avice O'Connell, M.D, URMC radiologist, discussed the studies concerning the Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) scanner in order to simplify it.
The CBCT offers high-quality pictures, besides, it is very important as it is easier on females because it permits breast scans in a significant way regardless of the need for pulling, compressing and flattening the breast tissue. O’ Connell is interested about its progress.
Moreover, a primary research noted that the breast coverage and radiation dose were in a comparison with mammography. However, the researchers didn’t imagine that the CBCT couldn’t replace mammography like a frontline screening tool. Besides, a lot of studies were necessary in order to illustrate its best usage in the clinic.

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DICOM Index Tracker Designed At Mayo Clinic To Track Radiation Doses.

Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota, announced recently that is about to establish a new imaging exam tracking system, the DICOM Index Tracker (DIT). This system will allow a comprehensive view of the radiation doses delivered to patients over time. DTI is among the first of its type, as it replaces manual tracking system with a new computerized one, reducing the time needed for collecting radiation dose delivery information at various medical facilities.

The DICOM Index Tracker was created by Steve G. Langer, Ph.D. at Mayo Rochester; it is currently under further development at Mayo Clinic in Arizona in collaboration with Arizona State University. DIT is able to track all the information based on the imaging procedures applied on a patient, such as radiation dose, scanner utilization, and several other types of information. All this information are gathered and prepared for access by authorized personnel later on.
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Online Courses For Nurses By GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare has lately released a new precious library; open for subscription, of online courses and materials for nurses.The courses are directed mainly to general practice registered nurses and also to nurses specialized in other fields involving, telemetry, obstetrics beside emergency and critical care.
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The Risk Of Thyroid Cancer Increased After Subjection Of Children To Radiation.

According to the University of Rochester Medical Center research, when children are subjected to head and neck radiation, whether as a result of multiple diagnostic CT scans or cancer treatment, it causes the increase of risk of thyroid cancer along the next fifty-eight years or more.

The study was published in the December 2010 edition of the journal, Radiation Research, it involved a group of children subjected to medical radiation and followed up for thyroid cancer incidence. The data obtained through the study might offer some information related to the rates of thyroid cancer, why the rates continue to increase as the general public through more used screening exams for instance computed tomography (CT) is increasingly subjected to higher doses of radiation.
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Prostate Cancer With A Single Dose Radiation, Study.

Radiation oncologists at Beaumont Hospital in Michigan have conducted a study to evaluate a new treatment for men suffering from prostate cancer with a single dose of radiation to diminish the risk of it to a lower level.


The first single dose treatment in the world has been performed by Alvaro Martinez, M.D., FACR, professor and chair, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, department of Radiation Oncology, Beaumont Hospitals.The study is based on 18 years of researches by Dr. Martinez and other Beaumont radiation oncologists aiming at destroying cancer cells with very short-term radiation treatment.
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PET Scans Used For Better Understanding Of Alzheimer's Disease

Researchers from The Karolinska Institute, Sweden, revealed in the medical journal Brain that it was found, for the first time, through an Alzheimer's disease  patient who was detected to have amyloids while conducting PET scans on his brain regularly as his disease progressed, and then his brain was analyzed after he died. The researchers said that the study gave important data on the pathological course of Alzheimer's disease. 
Alzheimer's disease, which also known as SDAT (Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type), is a serious neurologic brain disease that results in irreversible loss of neurons and intellectual abilities such as reasoning and memory. Brain cells die due to the developed plaques in the structure of the brain during the course of the disease. "The method of forming the plaques in the brain and whether they are the main reason of Alzheimer's are still unknown" the authors explained.

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