[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 MoreEditor's Note: The following is a guest blog post by Gillian Tickall, Chief Radiographer at The Alfred. The Alfred is a major tertiary referral teaching hospital that provides the most comprehensive range of specialist medical and surgical services in Victoria, Australia. Tickall kindly shares how converting to digital
Read More[caption id="attachment_1433" align="alignleft" width="150"] David H. Foos, Clinical Applications Research, Carestream[/caption] In recent conversations with clinical colleagues, the comment was made that “our sickest patients get the worst imaging." On further investigation I found that in portable chest imaging, anti-scatter grids are infrequently used, despite their
Read More[caption id="attachment_2659" align="alignleft" width="122"] Helen Titus, Marketing Director, Digital Capture Solutions, Carestream[/caption] Creating exposure ranges for pediatric patients is an important goal—with action taking place on several fronts. Researchers from six children's hospitals in the U.S.are collaborating to build the first pediatric CT dose index registry.
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Houston Healthcare in Warner Robins, Ga. recently installed six CARESTREAM DRX Systems to streamline image delivery. We asked Tim Sisco, Director of Cardiovascular and Imaging Services at Houston Healthcare, to talk about the impact converting from CR to DR systems has had on their dose reduction
Read MoreRobin A Wible, CNMT, CRA, Director of Imaging, Memorial Hospital in York, Pa, stopped by the Carestream booth at RSNA 2011 to talk about the challenges and opportunities facing radiology providers today. Watch below for her thoughts on capital constraints, dose reduction and portable imaging.
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Editors Note: We asked Kathy Hood, Director, and Cathy Atkins and Judy Wilson, Managers of Diagnostic Radiology, at AnMed Health in Anderson, S.C. to share an inside look at how they have lowered pediatric dose. Everything about AnMed Health Kids’ Care is tailored to children—from the alphabet
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Carestream R&I scientists are collaborating with pediatric radiologists at leading children’s hospitals to understand pediatric image interpretability needs and lower dose levels without reducing image quality or losing diagnostic information.
Read More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inFAzeZXM5Q] Steven Don, M.D., of Saint Louis Children's Hospital (St. Louis, MO) discusses trends, challenges and opportunities in pediatric medical imaging---focusing on digital radiography (DR) imaging.
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