Our Radiology Image Challenge is back for 2011! Image Challenge veterans know that this is one of our readers' favorites - and ours too - so we've made this fun challenge into a monthly series. You'll have all month to identify the subject in our
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A few weeks ago, I returned from attending the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna. I've been covering this meeting as a journalist since 1995, and it's been gratifying to see ECR evolve from a sleepy, biennial show lost in the shadow of the
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At our facility, every woman who has a mammogram gets an immediate diagnosis as part of her office visit. We believe in delivering real-time results because it eases our patients’ fears. Many come in for a mammogram because a friend or family member has been
Read More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--WN9mFlIIo] With the dust now settled from ECR 2011, we offer this video interview from the Carestream booth, featuring Drs. Thomas Lehnert, MD and Thomas Vogl, MD, University of Frankfurt, Germany. A recent study comparing workflow productivity of wireless digital radiography (DR) detectors with traditional computed radiography (CR)
Read MoreNicole Peters, M.D., Attending ER Physician at York Memorial Hospital, discusses the impact that the DRX-1 detector makes on their imaging workflow in the Emergency Room.
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Tracking mammography outcome data has changed dramatically over the last 30 years. We used to simply ask… benign or malignant, how small and what type? This level of generality in mammography screening is long gone. In its wake, we have dozens, even hundreds, of data points
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Guest post: Dr. Thomas Lehnert, MD Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Frankfurt, Germany It’s well known that the immediate image capture provided by digital radiography (DR) delivers enhanced productivity when compared to film imaging and even computed radiography (CR). Less familiar are the precise
Read MoreGuest post: Emily Crane, Research Director, KLAS Recently Newsweek ran a story proposing that digital mammography has no added benefit to plain film mammography for women 65 years of age and upward. I had a very strong emotional reaction to this story initially given the large
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Guest Post: Brian Casey, Editor in Chief, AuntMinnie.com A new report was published this week that probably isn't a big surprise to anyone: The volume of medical imaging services paid for within the Medicare system dropped in 2009, the first such drop in 11 years. [caption id="attachment_1071"
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Digital radiography has come a long way in a relatively short time. What a simple statement, but a big change in the way that we perform general radiographic imaging! Not so long ago, if you wanted to use a DR detector in a general radiographic setting,
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