John Olson, MD, Chief of Neurosurgery, Heartland Regional Medical Center, talked with us about his experience using the CARESTREAM DRX-Mobile Retrofit Kit in the operating room. He found that the rapid access to images can save as much as 20 minutes during each surgery - which
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At the beginning of April we posted our first in a new monthly series of Image Challenges. We got some great guesses, but no one correctly identified the subject of the x-ray! So the question remains - What is it? April's radiology image was chewing gum
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It’s not every day that you can do something that’s good for your patients, good for your career, and good for your spirit. Attending the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) Postgraduate Course, May 18-21, 2011, just may be one of those times. This biennial program—which alternates
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As an addition to our podcast series around the topic of meaningful use in radiology, we spoke with Dr. Roger Eng, MD, Chairman of Radiology, Chinese Hospital, and President of Golden Gate Radiology Medical Group. Dr. Eng highlights the opportunities and challenges for radiologists that wish to compliance
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Our Radiology Image Challenge is back for 2011! Image Challenge veterans know that this is one of our readers' favorites - and ours too - so we've made this fun challenge into a monthly series. You'll have all month to identify the subject in our
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A few weeks ago, I returned from attending the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna. I've been covering this meeting as a journalist since 1995, and it's been gratifying to see ECR evolve from a sleepy, biennial show lost in the shadow of the
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At our facility, every woman who has a mammogram gets an immediate diagnosis as part of her office visit. We believe in delivering real-time results because it eases our patients’ fears. Many come in for a mammogram because a friend or family member has been
Read More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--WN9mFlIIo] With the dust now settled from ECR 2011, we offer this video interview from the Carestream booth, featuring Drs. Thomas Lehnert, MD and Thomas Vogl, MD, University of Frankfurt, Germany. A recent study comparing workflow productivity of wireless digital radiography (DR) detectors with traditional computed radiography (CR)
Read MoreNicole Peters, M.D., Attending ER Physician at York Memorial Hospital, discusses the impact that the DRX-1 detector makes on their imaging workflow in the Emergency Room.
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Tracking mammography outcome data has changed dramatically over the last 30 years. We used to simply ask… benign or malignant, how small and what type? This level of generality in mammography screening is long gone. In its wake, we have dozens, even hundreds, of data points
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