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Productivity Through Nuclear Medicine Innovations At BNMS
Solutions for driving productivity and realising process efficiencies in healthcare will be showcased at the Siemens stand at this year's Annual Meeting of the British Nuclear Medicine Society (BNMS). From 26 - 28 April at Harrogate International Centre, visitors to stand 2 will learn how imaging technology and new software...
Siemens Wireless Digital Radiography Boosts Patient Capacity
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has installed a total of ten Ysio wi-D™ Digital Radiography (DR) systems from Siemens Healthcare. Queen Alexandra Hospital will support in and outpatient, adult, paediatric and emergency imaging needs with eight DR systems......
Imaging Diagnostic Systems Exhibits At The 2010 European College Of Radiology Conference
Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc., (OTCBB:IMDS), a pioneer in laser optical breast imaging; exhibited its CT Laser Mammography (CTLM®) system at the European College of Radiology, March 4-8, 2010, in Vienna, Austria. ECR 2010 had over 19,000 international delegates, an increase of attendance over the previous years......
The central and over-riding priority in all aspects of health care, in every hospital, at every meeting and in every last detail of administration is the interest of patients. Patients' interests and standards of care must come first. For that reason the review of unread X-rays is being given...
Springer Enters Into Partnership With The Korean Society Of Nuclear Medicine
Beginning in 2010 Springer is adding Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (NMMI) to its journals publishing program. The journal will be published quarterly on behalf of the Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine, which has been the publisher of the journal since 1967......
Varian Medical Systems Names Dr. John Adler As Chief Of New Clinical Applications
Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) announced that it has appointed John R. Adler, Jr., M.D., as Vice President and Chief of New Clinical Applications for the company. Dr. Adler, a renowned neurosurgeon, professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology at Stanford University, and past CEO, chairman and founder of Accuray,...
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SSO: Radiation After Mastectomy May Be Overused (CME/CE)
ST. LOUIS (MedPage Today) -- Many women who undergo mastectomy for early-stage breast cancer may not benefit from radiotherapy, a retrospective, single-center study suggested....
MHNCS: PET May Predict Cancer Aggression (CME/CE)
PHOENIX (MedPage Today) -- Pretreatment PET imaging results predicted survival in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma treated with intensity-modulated radiation therapy, a retrospective analysis of data from a clinical series showed....
MHNCS: Older Age No Obstacle to Aggressive Therapy (CME/CE)
PHOENIX (MedPage Today) -- Older patients benefit as much as younger ones from aggressive chemoradiation for head and neck cancer, data from a chart review showed....
MHNCS: Lymphedema Common in Head and Neck Cancer (CME/CE)
PHOENIX (MedPage Today) -- Treatment of head and neck cancer causes potentially severe lymphedema in a majority of patients, most of whom will benefit from complete decongestive therapy, a retrospective chart review showed....
MHNCS: No Outcome Benefit with Accelerated Radiotherapy (CME/CE)
PHOENIX (MedPage Today) -- Chemoradiation with accelerated or standard fractionation resulted in similar efficacy outcomes and toxicity for head and neck cancer, results of a randomized clinical trial showed....
MHNCS: IMRT Effective But Toxic for Recurrent H&N Cancer (CME/CE)
PHOENIX (MedPage Today) -- Patients with recurrent or second primary squamous-cell head and neck cancer achieved durable tumor control with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and chemotherapy, a small retrospective clinical review showed, but the improvement came at a toxic price....
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Urgent Requirement of Biomedical Service Engineer for Pune
The Company is a leading maker of MRI, Ultrasound and Computer tomography (CT) Scanners’ Machi...
“Is It Your First Digit or Your Last?”
My daughter Tory slammed her thumb in the car door Monday morning. By Tuesday morning the pain was a...
Diane Mayo, RT(R)(CT) Diane Mayo, RT (R) (CT), is a Quality Assurance Coordinator in Diagnostic Imag...
Toss the Embarrassment Aside and Save Lives
In Memory of DebTor ~ JMB For March’s National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, one woman speaks o...
SAT Prep Course at Trocaire: Be Prepared!
Choosing a college is an important step in your life. Let us be your partner in making sure you have...
How to Land Jobs with Landing Pages
Written by Amy Milani, Ph.D. February 22, 2010 We’ve come a long way from job hunting in the clas...
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Doctors ignoring CT scan cancer risk: watchdog
THE unjustified use of potentially cancer-causing CT scans in Australia has alarmed the Medicare watchdog and prompted calls from senior radiologists for doctors to stop indiscriminately ordering scans for patients....
Imaging Diagnostic Systems Exhibits At The 2010 European College Of Radiology Conference
Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc., , a pioneer in laser optical breast imaging; exhibited its CT Laser Mammography system at the European College of Radiology, March 4-8, 2010, in Vienna, Austria....
T naiste: Cancer X-ray scandal shows 'shabbiness'
The Tanaiste Mary Coughlan has described as "shabbiness" the fact that almost 58,000 X-rays were never looked at by a radiologist in Tallaght hospital in Dublin for nearly five years....
Staffing pressures forced the backlog to explode
HOW can a backlog of just a few thousand unread X-rays -- which was supposed to be "under control" in August -- suddenly become a mountain of almost 58,000 by Dec-ember? The saga surrounding the latest hospital scandal which has led to thousands of patients being subjected to huge anxiety...
Statement by the Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney, T.D.- Tallaght Hospital Services
The central and over-riding priority in all aspects of health care, in every hospital, at every meeting and in every last detail of administration is the interest of patients....
Primordial and Charlotte Radiology Partner on Next-Generation Workflow
Primordial, a leading vendor of communications, workflow, quality management and analytics applications for the medical imaging market, and Charlotte Radiology, one of the largest radiology groups in the United States, announced today a partnership to deploy and further develop Primordial's applications for use by Charlotte Radiology physicians ......
BMC Medical Imaging - Latest Articles
Background: We evaluated pulmonologists variability in the interpretation of Vibration response imaging (VRI) obtained from healthy subjects and patients hospitalized for community acquired pneumonia. Methods: The present is a prospective study conducted in a tertiary university hospital. Twenty healthy subjects and twenty three pneumonia cases were included in this study. Six pulmonologists blindly...
Building generic anatomical models using virtual model cutting and iterative registration
Background: Using 3D generic models to statistically analyze trends in biological structure changes is an important tool in morphometrics research. Therefore, 3D generic models built for a range of populations are in high demand. However, due to the complexity of biological structures and the limited views of them that medical...
Background: Left ventricular mass (LVM) is used when expressing infarct or fibrosis as a percentage of the left ventricle (LV). Quantification of LVM is interchangeably carried out in cine steady state free precession (SSFP) and delayed enhancement (DE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, these techniques may yield different LVM. Therefore, the...
Background: The purposes of the study were to determine the relevance and validity of in vivo non-invasive radiographic assessment of the CCLT (Cranial Cruciate Ligament Transection) rabbit model of osteoarthritis (OA) and to estimate the pertinence, reliability and reproducibility of a radiographic OA (ROA) grading scale and associated radiographic atlas. Methods: In vivo...
Background: The rupture of gastric varices is associated with high mortality rate. Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO), a minimally invasive procedure that was introduced in the mid-1990s, has been widely accepted in Japan. Several reports have indicated that B-RTO yields satisfactory results; however, few reports have discussed the recurrence of gastric...
Design and validation of Segment - freely available software for cardiovascular image analysis
Background: Commercially available software for cardiovascular image analysis often has limited functionality and frequently lacks the careful validation that is required for clinical studies. We have already implemented a cardiovascular image analysis software package and released it as freeware for the research community. However, it was distributed as a stand-alone application...
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Software glitch shuts down VA-DoD EMR data exchange
A software glitch that led to the display of incorrect patient data has resulted (more)...
Lumedx adds Philips feature to CardioPACS
Cardiovascular software developer Lumedx has released a new version of its (more)...
Optical imaging developer VisEn Medical has launched its new VivoTag 680 XL (more)...
WSJ: Philips mulls bid for Hologic
A March 11 article in the Wall Street Journal highlighting rumors that (more)...
AECL delays NRU restart to May
Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) again has delayed the restart of its National (more)...
VC CAD: Projection-based features reduce false positives
An advanced visualization method for virtual colonoscopy could help computer-aided (more)...
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Young radiologists, professional challenges pose difficulties for ultrasound
(DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING) -- Too few younger practicing radiologists are prepared to embrace ultrasound and push it to its clinical limits, according to Prof. Lorenzo Derchi, a professor of radiology at the University of Genoa in Italy. They can perform the most common examinations, but insufficient attention is given to the advancement...
Society of Interventional Radiology Hosts 35th Annual Scientific Meeting
Society of Interventional Radiology Hosts 35th Annual Scientific Meeting Latest Advances in Minimally Invasive Medicine Featured March 13–18 in Tampa, Fla. FAIRFAX, Va.—The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) will present the latest research on treatments for individuals with liver, breast, soft tissue, colon, prostate, lung and pancreatic cancers; painful spinal fractures;...
ACR Launches Online Nuclear Medicine and PET Accreditation Programs
Reston, VA ─ The American College of Radiology has launched an online nuclear medicine and positron emission tomography (PET) accreditation application program that streamlines the process and significantly reduces the time it takes for nuclear medicine and PET facilities to become accredited. The ACR nuclear medicine and PET accreditation programs...
Please visit one of our new partner websites, Radlinks.ca - a new online resource focused on radiology education. You can also find their link from our Partners page. For more hot-seat style videos and additional educational resources in radiology, please visit http://www.radlinks.ca …...
Digital Radiography Summit Focuses on Safety Measures for Pediatric Imaging
On Feb. 4, the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging expanded the Image Gently initiative (www.imagegently.org) to digital radiography exams (standard x-ray technology) by hosting a Digital Radiography Summit at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis. The summit bought together nearly 70 representatives from medical...
CMS urges payment delay to defend physician payments
(DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING) -- It’s a kind of man bites dog story: unusual, remarkable, yet oddly plausible. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has told its contractors to hold claims containing services paid under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for the first 10 business days of March. On reading this,...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound - Latest Articles
Outcome of coronary plaque burden: a 10-year follow-up of aggressive medical management
Background: : The effect of aggressive medical therapy on quantitative coronary plaque burden is not generally known, especially in ethnic Chinese. AIMS: We reasoned that Cardiac CT could conveniently quantify early coronary atherosclerosis in our patient population, and hypothesized that serial observation could differentiate the efficacy of aggressive medical therapy regarding...
Cor triatriatum and lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum in the elderly: a case report
Cor triatriatum is a rare congenital heart defect characterized by the presence of a fibromuscular membrane dividing the left atrium into two distinct chambers. Lipomatous hypertrophy of the atrial septum is an infrequently observed benign abnormality caused by large fatty tissue deposits in the interatrial septum. An increased incidence of...
Background: Isovolumetric acceleration (IVA) is a novel tissue Doppler parameter for the assessment of systolic function. The aim of this study was to evaluate IVA as an early parameter for the detection of right ventricular (RV) systolic dysfunction in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) without pulmonary hypertension. Methods: 22 patients and 22 gender-...
Background: Opening of an occluded infarct related artery reduces infarct size and improves survival in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). In this study we performed tissue Doppler analysis (peak strain, displacement, mitral annular movement (MAM)) and compared with visual assessment for the study of the correlation of measurements of global, regional...
Background: This study was conducted to assess the accuracy of harmonic imaging 2D-transthoracic echocardiography (2D-TTE) segmental analysis compared to surgical findings, in degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR). Methods: Seventy-seven consecutive patients with severe degenerative MR were prospectively enrolled. Preoperative 2D-TTE with precise localization of prolapsing or flailing scallops/segments was performed. All patients underwent mitral...
Background: Since cardiovascular diseases are associated with high mortality and generally undiagnosed before the onset of clinical findings, there is a need for a reliable tool for early diagnosis. Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is a non-invasive marker of coronary artery disease (CAD) and is widely used in practice as an inexpensive,...
scan man's notes
… Just to note the passing of four years of existence of this blog … I really ought to put more effort into keeping this lively following the example of friends who have recently seen the light and friends who have been leading lights in the medical blogging world …...
… A young adult (mid thirties), a known case of non-specific aortoarteritis (Takayasu’s arteritis) was referred for a CT scan of the Abdomen including a CT Aortogram to rule out mesenteric ischemia. The inital plain (no IV or oral contrast) CT scan did not show any evidence of abdominal pathology. So a...
… Wishing everyone a Happy Pongal & a prosperous New Year இனிய பொங்கல் வாழ்துக்கள் … Thai Pongal (தை பொங்கல்), the Tamil harvest festival holds a special significance for me as I was born on the first day of the Tamil month Thai (தை), which falls on January 14 this year. … … The picture above, a joint venture...
… From Blogs: Dr. Bruce Campbell, a Professor of ENT Surgery, known informally among medical bloggers as Headmirror, doesn’t think it’s a good idea to nap in the operating room and talks about the difficulty that most of us have leaving work behind even when we take a break. Bruce, is the...
SurgeXperiences 310 - Call for submissions
… The next edition SurgeXperiences 310 will be hosted by me in this blog on November 15, 2009. Deadline for submissions is midnight on Friday, November 13. Please send in your submissions early via this form. SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have...
The Week: Medical & Dental Councils of India are cancerous
… Note: This post is related to the previous post requesting support for the NCHRH bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. Again, I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in...
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From Haaretz: The times have passed when an old man like kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Kadouri was brought...
What happened to you? This is probably the question I have been asked most frequently. People are m...
[Gadg3t] $275K = Mobile Phone + Clock?
Came across this mysterious cell phone about a month back, and all we get to see was a X-ray pix of...
In Pictures: Pseudo-abandoned dentist office (Part II)
Recap: Alex M. recently bought a former dentist office to convert into a hostel. Brittani and I went...
Today, Carter and I had a doctor’s appointment. It went pretty well. Carter is doing great, th...
See just dead wood and no Heart!
Yesterday, the minister revealed she had learned of the 58,000 unchecked X-rays in December. But she...
Radiation Oncology - Latest Articles
Clinical application of tumor volume in advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma to predict outcome
Background: Current staging systems have limited ability to adjust optimal therapy in advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). This study aimed to delineate the correlation between tumor volume, treatment outcome and chemotherapy cycles in advanced NPC. Methods: A retrospective review of 110 patients with stage III-IV NPC was performed. All patients were treated first with...
Background: To study the set-up errors, PTV margin and toxicity of cone beam CT (CBCT) guided hypofractionated radiotherapy with active breathing control (ABC) for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or metastatic tumors in lung. Methods: 32 tumors in 20 patients were treated. Based on the location of tumor, dose per fraction...
Purpose: To compare target dose distribution, comformality, normal tissue avoidance, and irradiated body volume (IBV) in 3DCRT using classic anatomical landmarks (c3DCRT), 3DCRT fitting the PTV (f3DCRT), and intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC).Methods and Materials: Fifteen patients with LARC underwent c3DCRT, f3DCRT,...
Background: Giant cell tumors are rare neoplasms, representing less than 5 % of all bone tumors. The vast majority of giant cell tumors occurs in extremity sites and is treated by surgery alone. However, a small percentage occurs in pelvis, spine or skull bones, where complete resection is challenging. Radiation therapy...
Background: The purpose of this pilot study was to detect a correlation between serum cytokine levels and severity of mucositis, necessitating installation of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube (PEG) in head and neck (H&N) cancer patients receiving combined chemo-radiation therapy.Patients and Methods: Fifteen patients with H&N epithelial cancer were recruited to...
Hemizygosity for Atm and Brca1 influence the balance between cell transformation and apoptosis
Background: In recent years data from both mouse models and human tumors suggest that loss of one allele of genes involved in DNA repair pathways may play a central role in genomic instability and carcinogenesis. Additionally several examples in mouse models confirmed that loss of one allele of two functionally related...
Life in the Fast Lane
Consider a 49 year female old smoker with two weeks of increasing shortness of breath. She is being treated for pneumonia on the ward for three days but getting worse. An ICU review is performed on the ward and the following ECG is obtained. Related posts:Cardiovascular Curveball #003 Cardiovascular Curveball #001 Quiz...
In 1903, William Osler spoke to the students of the University of Toronto and told them of 'The Master Word of Medicine': "Though a little one, the master-word looms large in meaning. It is the 'Open Sesame' to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's ...
UCEM's Demographically Impartial Public & Social Health Improvement Taskforce have released the first in a series of lunchboxes designed to raise awareness of the importance of gas masks in preventing a range of miasmatic diseases such as syphilis and shame. Related posts:UCEM’s PR Supervisor Promoted UCEM to Save the NHS UCEM Promises Communication...
Not everyone is so blessed by fortune as to have teachers as inventive and inspiring as the great Tim Koelmeyer. Such was his prescience, he foresaw the day when the equanimity of his students would be ravaged by smells from hell. Indeed, he took steps to protect us, his eager...
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five #004
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia. Question 1 What is Albers-Schonberg Disease? Reveal Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1446062456'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1446062456')) Albers-Schonberg Disease is a type of osteopetrosis – a rare congenital disorder in which the bones become extremely dense, hard,...
A 10 year-old boy with a history of enuresis was BIBA to the ED after a first episode generalized tonic-clonic convulsion. He seemed tired in the morning but still attended his inter-school sports competition.While getting ready to compete he collapsed and had a self-limiting seizure (5 minutes duration). ... He...
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Emphysema and Airflow Obstruction Associated with Impaired Left Ventricular Filling
Very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes cor pulmonale - elevated pulmonary vascular resistance and secondary reductions in left ventricular filling, stroke volume, and cardiac output.The authors of this NEJM study hypothesized that emphysema, as detected on computed tomography (CT), and airflow obstruction are inversely related to left ventricular...
Hypertension is a "neglected disease" "Although hypertension is relatively easy to prevent, simple to diagnose, and relatively inexpensive to treat, it remains the second leading cause of death among Americans," said David Fleming, who led the study committee that wrote the report for the US Institute of Medicine. Hypertension is...
Twitter addiction: Could you get by without Twitter?
From BBC:A popstar gave up on social networking after a dinner party at which she realised she spent more time updating Twitter than interacting with her companions.Online communities like Twitter, where people follow each other without being acquainted in real life, can be brutal: "If you're going to broadcast as...
Low vitamin D levels in children associated with higher plasma glucose and lower HDL
A retrospective record review of pediatric outpatients (age, 2-18 years) included simultaneous measurement of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH] D) and fasting plasma glucose or 25(OH) D and a lipid panel.25(OH) D levels were inversely correlated with fasting plasma glucose levels. Lower 25(OH) D levels were also associated with lower serum high-density...
Vehicle Exhaust = Second-hand Smoke?
From the NYTimes:Exhaust from cars and trucks exacerbates asthma in children and may cause new respiratory illnesses and heart problems in adults, even resulting in deaths.The meta-analysis included 700 peer-reviewed studies on varying aspects of motor vehicle emissions and health. It found “evidence of a causal relationship,” but not proof...
Using Google Docs to facilitate patient flow in a health center via a shared spreadsheet
From Google Docs Blog: "It is difficult to keep track of which patients are in which rooms, how many patients are in the waiting room, and how far the doctors are falling behind with their patients for the day. If patients were late, canceled their appointments, or the waiting room was...
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