Search Tag: MRI
Patient Pathway Digitisation – More Than Meets the Eye
2021 20 Oct
An overview of the patient pathway digitisation process and the tools and strategies that can facilitate the journey of digitisation in radiology. Key Points Can digitisation of patient pathways create seamless patient interactions with healthcare providers and enable novel ways of cooperation between clinicians? To what extent,... Read more
Affidea is Opening Two New Outpatient State-of-the-Art Clinics in Lithuania
2021 08 Oct
Affidea is delighted to announce the launch of two brand new outpatient clinics in Lithuania, in Panevėžys and Šiauliai, both of them designed with a patient centric approach, offering an outstanding and comfortable experience to all our customers. The two new centers will provide patients with high quality medical services in contract... Read more
TeamViewer & Siemens Healthineers Form Partnership to Enable New Remote Scanning Service
2021 05 Aug
Partnership enables new digital business model for Siemens Healthineers Important step in combating shortage of skilled radiology technologists Siemens Healthineers has recently started offering its customers WeScan 1 . WeScan is a new service that helps healthcare providers to perform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations if they... Read more
Deep Learning Model for Creating Synthetic CT from MRI in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
2021 27 Jul
Researchers investigated the robustness and generalisability of a deep learning network for deriving synthetic CT from MRI of head neck cancer patients and found they were similar to those based on CT, suggesting a robust and reliable method. Radiotherapy planning based only on PET/MRI lacks CT information required for dose calculations.... Read more
Biparametric MRI: A New Standard for Prostate Cancer Imaging?
2021 12 Jul
A lone and discordant voice supported by few at first, biparametric prostate magnetic resonance imaging has been gradually gaining attention and visibility as a reliable, faster, and cheaper alternative to conventional multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging and could become a new standard of care in the near future. Key Points The role... Read more
Fujifilm Launches a Portfolio For Europe's Healthcare Community Following The Integration of Hitachi
2021 01 Jul
Fujifilm launches a more comprehensive portfolio for Europe's healthcare community following the integration of Hitachi Diagnostic Imaging Today at a virtual European event, the newly named FUJIFILM Healthcare Europe and FUJIFILM Europe’s existing European medical business (hereinafter referred to as “Fujifilm”) presented a complete and... Read more
Synthetic MRI in Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
2021 28 Jun
A newly published study evaluated the reliability of synthetic magnetic resonance imaging (SyMRI) for detecting complications associated with subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH), such as ischaemic lesions, hydrocephalus, or bleeding complications. Researchers compared results from twenty patients with SAH, who underwent a conventional brain MRI and... Read more
Father of MRI and Nobel Laureate Richard Ernst Dies at 87
2021 14 Jun
Richard R. Ernst, a chemist who won a Nobel Prize for devising precise techniques to analyse the chemical properties of atoms, helping create the foundation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which has had far-reaching applications in science and medicine, died June 4 at the age of 87 in his hometown in Switzerland. Born in 1933 in Winterthur,... Read more
The Future is Here: Whole-body Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2021 02 May
A group of researchers from Italy, led by Dr Paul Summers, from the European Institute of Oncology (IEO), presented results on “Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging: technique, guidelines and key applications.” As more clinicians and patients are requesting a radiation-free technique to deal with cancer screening and management, whole-body magnetic... Read more