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Cardiac MRI – Technical Aspects Primer

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has a wide range of clinical applications. Many of these applications are commonly employed in clinical practice—for example, in the evaluation of congenital heart disease, cardiac masses, the pericardium, right ventricular dysplasia, and hibernating myocardium. Other applications, such as evaluation of myocardial perfusion and of valvular and ventricular function, are [...]

Dicom PACS Help Your Medical Office Run More Smoothly

Dicom pacs is the wave of the future at medical offices and hospitals of all sizes and specialties. An efilm workstation, along with a dicom viewer, allows your medical team to work more efficiently and enables you to provide better care for your patients.

A dicom pacs, or picture archiving and communications system, does a lot [...]

Diagnostic Imaging Modality Overview

The term Radiology encompasses the techniques used to investigate the architecture and physiological function of the human body. These techniques include tomography, radiography, fluoroscopic, scintigraphic, ultrasonic, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Interventional Radiologic modalities used in conjunction with one another and with a variety of other diagnostic aids available to the physician.

Radiographic and fluoroscopic [...]

May Doctors Go the Way of Record Companies

Those of us who follow healthcare may be overlooking the big picture. Most of the profound (and sometimes disruptive) changes of the last half century — computers, the Internet, social networks — weren’t initiated by the political process. They arose at the intersection of technology, economics, and mass social change. So here’s something to think [...]

Convert Non-Digital Medical Images To Digital

Your medical facility may currently have a host of traditional medical equipment, which might include MRI and CT machines, as well as film x ray, mammography and ultrasound equipment. If you are in the process of making the transition to digital medical imagery, it can be a daunting prospect to replace all of the traditional [...]

A Step Closer To Better Brain Implants

Brain implants that can more clearly record signals from surrounding neurons in rats have been created at the University of Michigan. The findings could eventually lead to more effective treatment of neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and paralysis.

Neural electrodes must work for time periods ranging from hours to years. When the electrodes are implanted, [...]

Computers Can Send You to The ER

The first report to count computer-related emergency room injuries shows that each year more and more Americans are tripping over cords, dropping monitors, banging heads and snagging limbs.

Emergency room visits from computer injuries increased sevenfold between 1994 and 2006, according to a report published June 9 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Worse, the number [...]