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CARS Congress 2011: Information Now Online
The annual CARS congress facilitates innovation and contributes to modern medicine on a worldwide basis. CARS' traditional focus on research and development for computer assisted systems and their applications in radiology and surgery has been a key player in the development of medical informatics for more than 25 years. Its close collaboration with...
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CIRSE Raises UFE Awareness in Nine Languages
CIRSE has developed a website (www.uterinefibroids. eu) that provides vital information to patients, professionals and the public on the symptoms and possible treatment options of uterine fibroid embolisation (UFE) as part of its commitment to raising public awareness of new health solutions that are both highly effective and less invasive than many...
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ECRI Institute 17th Annual Web Conference
Drs. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, and Carolyn Clancy, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and more than 35 speakers from public and private sectors, are convening October 19 - 20, 2010, for ECRI Institute's 17th Annual Conference, Comparative Effectiveness and Personalised Medicine: An Essential...
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IHE Tests Data Exchange Systems
At the recent Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) European Connectathon 2010 in Bordeaux, seven companies tested systems for exchanging data between hospital device gateways using a protocol that covers data intended for use both in home and hospital-based devices. Sharing this data improves capabilities for remote patient monitoring among...
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Who Should Perform Cardiac Imaging?
Imaging the heart is a crucial component of clinical cardiology that provides invaluable information on structure, function, physiology and sometimes prognosis. In well-funded health systems, it is difficult to envisage managing the majority of patients without some form of cardiac imaging to provide accurate information important to clinical decision...
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Who Should Perform Cardiac Imaging?
Diagnostic imaging has come to play a central role in the management of cardiovascular diseases, and radiologists have been responsible for the development and validation of clinical applications in the field. The recent explosion of medical imaging procedures has once again focused attention on the general issue of self-referral in cardiology. Several...
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Cardiac Imaging
Cardiovascular diseases are ranked as the leading causes for mortality in most Western regions which has lead to development of preventive and curative measures. according to World Health organization (WHo) estimates, 16.7 million people around the globe die of cardiovascular diseases each year. This is over 29 percent of all deaths globally. Recent...
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Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging Modalities
Dturing recent years, efforts from both the medical and engineering communities have led to enormous advances in the field of noninvasive cardiovascular imaging, strengthening its key role in cardiologic diagnosis making and therapy guidance. The strengths and weaknesses of the new developments in the four main cardiac non-invasive imaging modalities:...
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Hot Topics in Medical Imaging in the Czech Republic
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) offers such benefits as the lack of need for ionising radiation, the possibility of real-time imaging, of the application of a second contrast media injection a few minutes after the first one, the possibility for quantification and the higher sensitivity and specificity offered by this technique in the detection...
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Preparing for a Career in Medical Imaging
In the Czech Republic today, preparation for a career in radiology begins at a radiology department and lasts for four years. The first two years comprise the so-called foundation, of which the first year is common for all fields. The second year is then directed towards individual methods – six months of radiography, two months of radioscopy and four...
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