Los avances en las imágenes de las extremidades pueden beneficiar a los adultos con estilos de vida activos. A lo largo de los años he asistido a cientos de ferias y conferencias, y la reunión anual de la Academia Estadounidense de Cirujanos Ortopédicos (AAOS) ha sido
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In-house imaging provides orthopaedic practices with ancillary revenue stream. “Where you win or lose the game in a medical practice is on the revenue side of the balance sheet.” Orthopaedic practices, like all medical practices, are feeling the pinch of increased costs, reimbursement pressure, and time-consuming administrative
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Today's summary of studies and presentations from RSNA 2015 highlight breast density notification laws, head CT and MRI, MRI technique for osteoarthritis in college football players, organ dose management, and how CT and 3D printing helping in a surgery to separate conjoined girls. Breast Density Notification
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Re-posted from Diagnostic Imaging (DI) Europe with permission. Timed to coincide with the date (8th November) of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, the International day of radiology (IDoR) has now evolved into an annual event of “action and awareness” organized by the
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This white paper addresses the benefits of a prototype cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) system dedicated to extremity imaging. The CBCT system was co-developed by scientists at Carestream Health and Johns Hopkins University. The CBCT system was designed to image both upper and lower extremities, with the
Read MoreThis article originally ran on the Imaging Technology News (ITN) website, and is republished with its permission. The silence is deafening. And since radiology associations, physician groups and vendors have yet to publicly respond to the elephant in the room, I offer the following in hopes
Read MoreI was a collaborating author for a scientific paper that was presented at the 2014 Radiological Society of North America conference (RSNA) that describes 3D imaging of the foot and ankle using a dedicated extremity cone-beam CT (CBCT) scanner. The paper describes research into extremity
Read MoreThis year marks the 100th annual RSNA conference, with the theme “A Century of Transforming Medicine.” Over the last century, we have achieved the unthinkable. Never would we have thought that we can capture a 3D image with such clarity and accuracy, or that we
Read More[caption id="attachment_5476" align="alignleft" width="107"] Sean Ruck, editor-in-chief, DOTmed Healthcare Business News[/caption] Hospitals have a duty to treat patients, but in order to do so, they have to get them in the door. Even though we’ve entered an era of consolidation, there’s still enough competition out there
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
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