Technical Advances: Radiation-sparing Techniques and Automated AV Tools

February 16, 2011 | NONE

Ask cardiac imagers from both sides of the care team—cardiology and radiology—what they see as the most critical advance in imaging technology, and their answers all have one thing in common: dose reduction. “Prospective gating (or step and shoot) is one; iterative reconstruction is another,” according to... Read More »

Catching Up With the Future: The Radiology of Tomorrow

December 22, 2009 | Enterprise View

The future is here—it just hasn’t made it to radiology yet. A restless pioneer spirit continues to drive radiology into the future, even if that future is lagging well behind advances achieved by Internet commerce companies. “This is not novel; this is how IT works in every... Read More »

Extending Advanced Visualization Across Multiple Departments

November 19, 2009 | Enterprise View

Among the virtues of thin-client 3D advanced visualization are ease and economy of deployment across an enterprise. Above both, however, lies the ability to improve the quality of care. At Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Delaware, which has extended access to its advanced visualization platform from the radiology department... Read More »

Software Allows Virtual PET/MRI Fusion

November 19, 2009 | Revenue Track

It was a difficult, but not uncommon, neuroradiology case: A patient suffered seizures, but had, a year before, been cleared of the possibility of epilepsy by a radiologist looking at an MRI study of the patient’s brain. The persistence of the symptoms suggested that the initial diagnosis had... Read More »

State of the Technology: Geoffrey Rubin, MD, on 3D Visualization

October 14, 2009 | Enterprise View

As CT technology continues to advance and the number of slices in a given exam grows exponentially, how is the role of enterprise visualization software evolving to suit the needs of the modern radiology department? ImagingBiz.com speaks with Geoffrey Rubin, MD, professor of radiology and vice chief of... Read More »

Enterprise Visualization: The CIO Story

September 11, 2009 | Enterprise View

When contemplating implementation of an enterprise-wide advanced visualization solution, expect to hear many concerns voiced by various stakeholders—and look for the CIO’s voice to be front and center among them. Topping the CIO’s list of concerns will most probably be whether (and to what extent) the... Read More »

View From the Podium: Stanford MDCT Face-Off

July 15, 2009 | Enterprise View

By stipulation, there were to be no winners when eight vendors of advanced imaging workstations and their physician teams competed in the Seventh Annual Original Workstation Face-off, held May 20 in San Francisco, California, at Stanford Radiology’s 11th Annual International Symposium on Multidetector-row CT. Even so, according to... Read More »

Enterprise Visualization in the Pediatric Environment

May 15, 2009 | Enterprise View

The worst advanced visualization system in the world for a pediatric setting is one wherein the only way that referring physicians from across the organization can see 3D reconstructions of diagnostic images is by physically visiting a radiologist at his or her workstation.

“Believe... Read More »

Thin-client Enterprise Visualization: A Top-down View

April 15, 2009 | Enterprise View

Say that Amazon.com operated using a thick-client model (it doesn’t, but pretend it does for argument’s sake). Imagine, then, the nightmare that the head of the company’s operations would face if tasked with making sure that every customer could visit, navigate, and shop on the... Read More »

Masters of Manipulation

March 15, 2009 | Feature

Radiologists and vendors race to grasp and improve the tools of advanced visualization as imaging modalities churn out ever more information

Radiology stands on the cusp of the golden age of advanced visualization, with the two most commonly used high-tech modalities, CT and MRI, increasingly reliant on ... Read More »

Through Thick and Thin: The MGH Search for a 3D Solution

February 15, 2009 | Reading Room

Imagine that you run a large city, and that up until now, the sole transportation available has been buses—but with the price of automobiles coming down, citizens suddenly want to drive cars.

This situation is somewhat analogous to what’s happening to ... Read More »

The Economic Advantages of Thin-client Technology

January 15, 2009 | Reading Room

Clear clinical benefits have resulted from the widespread adoption of multidetector CT (MDCT) technology, as well as from the use of advanced, contrast-enhanced, and functional MRI applications. The resulting increase in data-handling needs, however, has been less welcome at facilities that are not equipped to deal with it. For... Read More »

How I Do It: Using 3D MRI to Identify High-risk Vascular Disease

November 16, 2008 | The Virtuoso

Stroke and heart attack are major killers, not only in the Western world but, increasingly, throughout the developing industrial nations. The cost of these diseases is counted not only in lives lost, but in the health care costs incurred by those patients suffering the chronic manifestations of stroke and... Read More »

How I Do It: Maximizing Efficiency in CTA Interpretation

September 16, 2008 | The Virtuoso

They’re coming, and in many hospitals, they have already arrived: multidetector CT (MDCT), CT angiography (CTA), and advanced 3D imaging. This wonderful new modality offers the promise of evaluating disease processes from atherosclerosis to cancer to trauma more quickly, safely, and accurately than older techniques can. CTA is... Read More »

Advanced Visualization: A Do-it-yourself Approach

May 15, 2008 | Radinformatics

With three-dimensional and other advanced visualization tools being used for a greater share of CT and other imaging studies, it is more important than ever for radiologists to have access to postprocessing software and equipment at the point of interpretation.

It is equally important for radiologists to... Read More »

In-house vs Outsource for 3D: A Questionnaire for Determining the Breakeven Point

April 15, 2008 | Reading Room

It’s coming. In many hospitals, it has already arrived. We’re talking about multidetector CT (MDCT), CT angiography, and advanced 3D imaging. This wonderful new technology offers the promise of evaluating disease processes, from atherosclerosis to cancer to trauma, more quickly, safely, and accurately than older techniques. CT... Read More »

The 3D Imaging Lab:In-house or Outsource?

March 15, 2008 | Reading Room

Staying abreast with (or, better yet, staying ahead of) the imaging-technology curve clearly follows a clinical imperative. Better imaging tools—in this case, 3D postprocessed reconstructions—have an immediate payoff for patient care. When a surgeon can use 3D imaging to measure and plan a vascular procedure better, for... Read More »

College, 3D Lab Partner in Web-based Advanced Visualization Training

January 15, 2008 | Quality

The nation’s first curriculum-based program for volumetric imaging began as do many collaborations between local businesses and technical colleges: a local start-up in search of a steady stream of skilled employees approached a local technical college.

Robert Falk, MD, founding manager director and chief medical officer... Read More »

Achieving Return on a Dedicated 3D Service

November 15, 2007 | Legislative Report

A dedicated 3D service can improve patient care and enhance operational efficiency. Building and operating such a service requires a significant investment in staff, equipment, information technology (IT), space, overhead and other expenses; however, both improving care and realizing a return on investment (ROI) on these expenditures is often... Read More »