[caption id="attachment_4632" align="alignleft" width="150"] Rich Pulvino, Digital Media Specialist, Carestream[/caption] ECR 2014 is hardly a day old and ESR has already made a splash with its new initiative, EuroSafe Imaging--a mission "to support and strengthen medical radiation protection across Europe following a holistic, inclusive approach." The necessity
Read More[caption id="attachment_5164" align="alignleft" width="288"] Alexander Towbin, MD, Neil D. Johnson Chair of Radiology Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital (left), and Catherine Leopard, Child Life Specialist, Cincinnati Children's Hospital (right)[/caption] Patient comfort has always been an important component of the medical imaging process. However, when imaging pediatric patients,
Read More[caption id="attachment_2657" align="alignleft" width="100"] Helen Titus, Marketing Director, X-ray Solutions, Carestream[/caption] We have known for some time that children are more sensitive to radiation than adults. And because children have less overlying tissue, the same exposure results in higher radiation doses to their organs than for
Read More[caption id="attachment_3540" align="alignleft" width="100"] Jerry ZeidenbergPublisher & EditorCanadian Healthcare Technology &Technology for Doctors Online[/caption]Radiologists are, without a doubt, some of the smartest people we’ll ever meet. But they’re not infallible, and IT systems are now being implemented to add further intelligence to the medical system.
Read More[caption id="attachment_3920" align="alignleft" width="112"] Don Thompson, Digital Capture Solutions, Marketing Manager, Carestream U.S. & Canada[/caption] For years radiology has worked on this problem—how to minimize X-Ray dose for children, who are vulnerable not only because of their sensitivity but because of the cumulative effect of radiation
Read More[caption id="attachment_2657" align="alignleft" width="100"] Helen Titus, Marketing Director, X-ray Solutions, Carestream[/caption] The delicate state of a patient in a hospital is never taken lightly by medical imaging professionals. These patients are in situations where they are at their most vulnerable and it is up to the
Read More[caption id="attachment_4632" align="alignleft" width="150"] Rich Pulvino, Digital Media Specialist, Carestream[/caption] IRIS (Image Right, Image Safe) is a commitment that started at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (D-H) to ensure that not only was dose being reduced, but that patients were receiving only necessary medical imaging exams. Karen Burgess,
Read More[caption id="attachment_3824" align="alignleft" width="109"] Lynn La Pietra, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Carestream[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3825" align="alignleft" width="106"] John Yorkston, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Carestream[/caption] Editor's note: read the more recent blog on a task-based observer study conducted with Hershey Medical Center on pediatric fracture detection. Radiography trends related to
Read MoreThe 2012 RSNA meeting marked the 30th anniversary of the show from which Debora Wright's mobile mammography screening business, Inner Images, was born. Three decades later, the current healthcare climate set a different at the meeting, but for Debora and Inner Images, reform has opened
Read MoreKathy Hood, Director of Radiology, AnMed Health in Anderson, S.C, discusses the role of digital radiography in her department. Hood highlights the department's acquisition of a CARESTREAM DRX-Evolution DR Room and the ability to share DRX wireless DR detectors between equipment. Hood is looking at new
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