Radiology

Company expands radiology solutions offering with new range of pharmaceuticals for diagnostic imaging Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has signed an agreement with Curagita Holding AG to acquire all the shares of its subsidiary Insight Agents GmbH. Insight Agents is a European developer and producer of contrast media, with business activities mainly in Germany. The final acquisition price is expected to be around 10 million Euro. Contrast media are primarily used during medical imaging examinations with x-rays, computed tomography (CT) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), either to highlight specific anatomical structures (mostly ... Read Full Story

A reader of Lab Soft News has suggested that it would be useful if pathologists were to adopt the phrase soft copy read as part of the ongoing discussion about digital pathology . The term is in common usage among radiologists. Digital pathology, of course, refers to the process by which the images obtained from fixed stained paraffin sections of tissue are converted to digital format, interpreted by pathologists, and then stored. Soft copy read refers specifically to the rendering of a diagnosis from an image displayed on a monitor without the creation of a hardcopy image as an intermediate step. Radiologists, of course, ... Read Full Story

Ultrasound of the Musculoskeletal System (Medical Radiology / Diagnostic Imaging) Product Description: This book is a comprehensive reference and practical guide on the technology and application of ultrasound to the musculoskeletal system. It is organized into two main sections. The first is devoted to general aspects, while the second provides a systematic overview of the applications of musculoskeletal ultrasound in different areas of the body. Each chapter of the second section provides an introduction on clinical anatomy and the essentials of clinical history and physical examination. Thereafter, performance of the ultrasound study is explained and the normal and pathological anatomy is reviewed. To assist ... Read Full Story

Description: Written by internationally renowned experts, this volume is a collection of chapters dealing with imaging diagnosis and interventional therapies in abdominal and pelvic disease. The different topics are disease-oriented and encompass all the relevant imaging modalities including X-ray technology, nuclear medicine, ultrasound and magnetic resonance, as well as image-guided interventional techniques. The book represents a condensed overview of twenty topics relevant in abdominal and pelvic disease, and is aimed at residents in radiology as well as at experienced radiologists wishing to be updated on the current state-of-the art. This book is a condensed form of the topics discussed in the International Diagnostic Course ... Read Full Story

By Erik L. Ridley (AuntMinnie staff writer October 20, 2009) The U.S. market for teleradiology services nearly tripled in size from 2003 to 2007, but the market's torrid growth may already be slowing, according to a study by American College of Radiology (ACR) researchers published in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology . Researchers from the ACR of Reston, VA, found that external teleradiology usage patterns are generally as predicted, with the exception of surprisingly low utilization by nonmetropolitan practices. Although hard data are not available, the researchers also believe that growth has since slowed down, and that very few practices ... Read Full Story

By Erik L. Ridley (AuntMinnie staff writer October 20, 2009) The U.S. market for teleradiology services nearly tripled in size from 2003 to 2007, but the market's torrid growth may already be slowing, according to a study by American College of Radiology (ACR) researchers published in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology . Researchers from the ACR of Reston, VA, found that external teleradiology usage patterns are generally as predicted, with the exception of surprisingly low utilization by nonmetropolitan practices. Although hard data are not available, the researchers also believe that growth has since slowed down, and that very few practices ... Read Full Story

Awhile back I wrote a few notes entitled "Stethoscopes, EMRs and EHRs - what is all the data worth?" They were essentially musings about my own experiences with health records, patient data and some thoughts dealing with "evidence-based medicine" from some experiences I had the time. Recently I had the opportunity to meet several of the over 120 radiologists at my institution. I asked about a dozen of them about the "merger of radiology and pathology services" I have been hearing and reading about in pathology for some time; See - 10 reasons for radiology-pathology merger , " In diagnosis, a tale of two ... Read Full Story