US-based medical network Capital Health has deployed GE Healthcare’s Discovery NM 750b, a specialised breast scanner that enables advanced functional imaging of breast cancer, at its New Jersey Hopewell medical centre….

Four new generation cardiac computed tomography (CT) scanners can now be used by the NHS to help diagnose and manage patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) who are difficult to image, says NICE. CT scanners are used to evaluate the function of the heart, its arteries and the degree of calcium build up. However, in certain people imaging can be difficult with older types of CT scanners….

Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, has deployed the Vantage Titan 1.5T MR system from Toshiba America Medical Systems. The solution is expected to help the medical centre image patients from the Laura Dreier Breast Center during screening and surgical planning. Banner Good Samaritan director of medical imaging Kathy Altergott said that Vantage Titan is helping the centre expand...

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam (the Netherlands) have signed an agreement to install one of Philips’ highly innovative Ingenuity TF PET/MR (Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance) scanners at the center. This advanced imaging modality will help researchers at the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam to investigate...

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in California, US, has opened an advanced cardiac operating suite….

Agfa HealthCare announced that its ORBIS solution will replace the existing HIS/CIS (Hospital Information System/Clinical Information System) in the Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe, Germany. The 1500-bed hospital is a German ‘maximum-care hospital’, with 22 medical departments and four institutes providing care to 57,000 in-patients and 161,000 out-patients every year. Städtisches Klinikum...

Royal Philips Electronics’ whole body PET/MR imaging system, the Ingenuity TF PET/MR, has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)….

McKesson announced the successful deployment of its market-leading medical imaging solution at the first four of 35 hospitals in Ireland as part of an exclusive partnership with the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE). Beaumont Hospital, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Sligo General Hospital and Waterford Regional Hospital are amoung the first to roll out McKesson’s Horizon Medical...

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, scientific journalists and experts from Siemens Healthcare provide basic details about medical radiation for the benefit of patients and interested members of the general public. The fundamentals of the physics involved can be found here, along with an introduction to imaging procedures and notes on minimizing exposure to radiation. A glossary explains the most common technical terms in a succinct...