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GE Healthcare, the healthcare business subsidiary of General Electric Company, has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Gulf Capital, one of the largest private equity firms in the Gulf, to develop a regional chain of medical diagnostic and healthcare service centers. GE Healthcare will offer strategic support to Gulf Capital’s healthcare portfolio company investments, and the [...] Royal Philips Electronics announced that the project has achieved a major milestone in its ambitious plan to create a new medical imaging technique called hybrid PET/MR. This new technique is based on the simultaneous acquisition of time-of-flight Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. The project involves eight partners from six European countries and [...] Montreuil, France (PRWEB) October 2, 2009 — Ziosoft®, Inc. a leader in advanced visualization and analysis software for medical imaging and Global Imaging Online, French leader of PACS, RIS and Tele-Radiology solutions, announced today that the companies have signed an agreement for Global Imaging Online to distribute advanced 3D thin-client software solutions in France. News ImageThe [...] InteleOne and IntelePACS Sites Multiply Intelerad PACS Solutions in the U.S., Canada and Australia. Montreal, Quebec, September 29, 2009— Intelerad Medical Systems, an industry-leading PACS solution vendor, bolsters its PACS market presence with new contract signings and installations in the U.S., Canada and Australia. To see and hear video testimonials from some of Intelerad’s customers. In the [...] The impressive strides that have been made in the field of advanced imaging technology have led to major enhancements in a physician’s ability to diagnose a variety of diseases. However, since the use of and expenditures for imaging services have increased more rapidly than other physician-ordered services, without concomitant evidence of their value overall, government [...]
Two nanoscale devices recently reported by University of Pittsburgh researchers in two separate journals harness the potential of carbon nanomaterials to enhance technologies for drug or imaging agent delivery and energy storage systems, in one case, and, in the other, bolster the sensitivity of oxygen sensors essential in confined settings, from [...] A lexicon would tell you that radiology is a branch of medicine, which makes use of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. X rays, gamma rays, ultrasound waves, radioactive isotopes and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are commonly used for medical imaging these days. Radiology Products are especially useful in the treatment of [...] In the political minefield of healthcare reform, medical imaging has emerged as a microcosm of this contentious debate. Congress has been charged with a high stakes, high wire balancing act: to create a bill preserving quality and access while trimming unethical and unnecessary spending. Medical imaging represents such a challenge, with its undeniable benefits tainted [...]
Share/Save Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging. It includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol. DICOM files can be exchanged between two entities with the capacity of receiving images and data of patients in DICOM format. The communication protocol [...] |
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