Keywords: New Technologies

05/05/2012

The 129th Congress of the German Society of Surgery

Meeting with EH editor Brigitte Dinkloh, Congress Secretary Professor Alexis Ulrich MD (left), Assistant Medical Director at the Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplant …

05/05/2012

CT use increases for CAD diagnosis

Computed tomography (CT) has become central to the diagnosis and characterisation of coronary artery disease (CAD) and, in the future, could even supplant invasive coronary …

05/02/2012

Working at the heart of Arizona Heart

Among the area’s top cardiac and vascular disease specialist hospitals, Arizona Heart has invested in several technological advancements over the past year, including Ziehm …

05/02/2012

The vicissitudes of breast screening

The benfit of breast cancer screening for women over aged 50 is beyond doubt. However, what does a systematic search yield for breast cancer in women aged between 40 and 49? This …

05/02/2012

Fly-Thru examination

The ability to ‘fly-thru’ organs with 3-D reconstruction is the leading edge for new ultrasound features on board Toshiba’s new Aplio 500, John Brosky reports. …

05/02/2012

Delivering sophisticated technology to primary care

Following last year’s acquisition of Aloka Co Ltd by Hitachi Medical Corporation, their powerful combination in Hitachi Aloka Medical Ltd has united next generation technologies …

05/02/2012

Carestream’s X-Factor

Carestream Health brought fresh innovations to ECR 2012, among them the DRX-Revolution that shares the same DRX-1/DRX-1C wireless detectors as others in the firm’s DRX family. …

05/02/2012

A dynamic HIMSS 12 in Las Vegas

To date, the US administration has subsidised care organisations to the tune of over US$3 billion to implement IT -- particularly electronic health records. Nor is that the end. …

05/02/2012

3-T MRI is now more accessible

A new competitively priced scanner promises to make 3-tesla MRI more accessible to a wider range of institutions, according to Siemens Healthcare. …

04/30/2012

The 27th Annual EAU Congress

Around for almost 20 years, minimally invasive technologies such as laparoscopy and robot-assisted surgery are popular subjects – and aired again during the 27th EAU Congress …

04/23/2012

EIZO Presents a New Widescreen Monitor for the Operating Room

EIZO GmbH, Display Technologies introduced the RadiForce LX600W, a large widescreen LCD color monitor with an LED (light-emitting diode) backlight. This 8 megapixel monitor is …

03/31/2012

RADbook 2012 on your iPad

Quick, simple and comfortable – the RADbook 2012 on your iPad. Download the RADbook app free of charge today and have all state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging systems at your …

03/05/2012

Innovative Toshiba Aplio pushes envelope for ultrasound

Ultra-performance platform wins clinical adoption for advance procedures while novel 'fly-thru' visualization promises to take radiologists to a new level. Jean-Michel Correas …

03/04/2012

Proven Benefits of ShearWave Elastography

Radiology and European Radiology Journals Report High Reproducibility and Significant Improvement of Breast Ultrasound Specificity. The much anticipated results of the largest …

02/27/2012

Europe’s first Positron Emission Mammography

Early this year the radiology and nuclear medicine practice of Doctors Andreas Blynow, Frank Muller, Jorg Kowalski in Ludwigshafen, Germany, began to offer breast examinations …

02/24/2012

ECR 2012: Hologic launches four products

Hologic a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics products, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of …

02/22/2012

Ambulance paramedics switch to on the spot electronic reporting

A British ambulance service has successfully made the transition from paperbased patient reporting to a fully electronic system enabling paramedics to capture patient data at the …

02/22/2012

MedAustron is becoming a reality in Wiener Neustadt

Currently there is a truly enormous hole in the ground in the city of Wiener Neustadt, Austria, but by summer 2012 MedAustron, one of the most modern centres for ion therapy and …

02/15/2012

Hitachi presents…The world’s first oval bore 1.5-T MR system

Education and science are not the only exciting aspects of the European Congress of Radiology; the Vienna venue is also a stage on which companies can introduce novel concepts in …

02/14/2012

Finding early stage cancers that could have been missed

In Europe, 350,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer annually. About 90% of them can be cured if the cancer is detected at a very early stage. To improve early detection …