• AGFA

    Agfa HealthCare announces today that the hospitals of the François-Elisabeth Foundation (FFE) in Luxembourg will replace their existing hospital information system (HIS) and document management system (DMS) with Agfa HealthCare systems. The Hôpital Kirchberg, the Clinique Privée Dr. E. Bohler - both in the Kirchberg area of Luxembourg City - and the...

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  • SIEMENS

    Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has installed two MAMMoMAT Inspiration ™ Full Field Digital mammography systems with Stereotactic Biopsy from Siemens Healthcare. The systems will help expand digital imaging capabilities and improve services in line with the Cancer Reform Strategy (CRS). The Inspirations will be used for symptomatic...

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  • CIRSE

    CIRSE are urging stakeholders to present their latest research findings at the leading European meeting for interventional radiology, with a deadline of May 14, 2011. With more than 5,600 participants in 2010, the CIRSE annual meeting has become Europe's largest and most comprehensive forum for experts in imageguided minimally invasive therapies....

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  • CARS 2011

    The CARS congress with its associated journal has issued an open invitation to potential attendees of the annual congress to take place in Berlin from June 22 – 25. With a focus on research and development for computer-assisted systems and their applications in radiology and surgery, CARS has played a leading role in medical informatics for more than...

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  • Commission to Extend Euratom Budget for Nuclear Research to 2013

    The Commission has adopted a proposal to extend the budget of the 2007 - 2011 Euratom Framework Programme, which funds nuclear research, to cover the years 2012 and 2013. This is a formal step necessary to bring the effective duration of the Euratom Framework Programme into line with the seven-year period of the main Seventh Framework Programme for...

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  • IMAGING Management Author Guidelines

      Content IMAGING Management welcomes submissions from qualified, experienced professionals active in the imaging industry, related technology companies and medical healthcare professionals with an interest in imaging- related topics and themes. We are particularly interested in articles focusing on management or practice issues and therefore accept...

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  • Using Email to Exchange Medical Data

    Introduction The technological revolution that took place in radiology departments across the globe was first made easier by the implementation of viable Radiology Information Systems, followed by Picture Archiving and Communication Systems, while the DICOM standard was introduced in 1985 to help users communicate. By the end of the century, DICOM...

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  • Improving Radiation Safety Awareness Amongst Cardiologists & GPS

    Please tell us how you became interested in the study and promotion of radiation safety. I am a cardiologist and a Senior Medical Researcher for the Italian National Research Council at the Institute of Clinical Physiology in Pisa. I am a clinical cardiologist with experience in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), database and epidemiological studies....

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  • Pros and Pitfalls of Paediatric Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound

    Despite the widespread use and proven efficacy of ultrasound (US) contrast media in the adult population, as showed in Table 1 (see pg. 39), contrast-enhanced US (CEUS) has not achieved the same level of diffusion in the paediatric population. The rare reports in the scientific literature denote their sporadic and experimental use, most likely in off-label...

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  • The Economics of Interventional Radiology

    Healthcare teams naturally strive to provide patients with the most effective treatments, resulting in the best possible clinical outcomes. There are however, inevitable budgetary limits to which treatments and procedures can be made available. The economic impact of clinical decisions should therefore always be considered, especially as new technologies...

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