[caption id="attachment_4552" align="alignleft" width="100"] Kendall Mckee, (RT), Operations ManagerSan Antonio Community Hospital[/caption] When faced with the choice of seeing images in five seconds or 20 minutes, every physician opts for multi-second access. Instant access—along with exceptional image quality—is one of the key advantages of converting from
Read More[caption id="attachment_2659" align="alignleft" width="123"] Helen Titus, Marketing Director, X-ray Solutions, Carestream[/caption] We are half way through 2013 and radiation dose reduction in medical imaging continues to be one of the most important issues the industry faces. Patients are our primary focus and we at Carestream, as
Read More[caption id="attachment_4495" align="alignleft" width="115"] Tim Sisco,Director of Cardiovascular and Imaging Services,Houston Healthcare[/caption] We were looking for a new DR system that would deliver maximum productivity in our busiest radiology room, which captures 40,000 X-ray images of ER and general radiology patients at our 237-bed hospital. Our
Read More[caption id="attachment_3825" align="alignleft" width="106"] John Yorkston, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Carestream[/caption] At this year's CARS conference, Carestream scientists will co-author a research paper with colleagues from Johns Hopkins University describing the results of an ongoing, multi-year research project to develop a cone beam CT system specifically optimized
Read More[caption id="attachment_4520" align="alignleft" width="109"] Rafael Fernandez, DMS Product Specialist, Spain, Carestream[/caption] The Spanish translation of this post can be found following the English version. The Spanish Congress of Medical Physics and Radiology Protection is a yearly event that gathers the major stakeholders and key radiology opinion leaders
Read More[caption id="attachment_2892" align="alignleft" width="108"] Eliot Siegel, M.D., Professor and Vice Chair, Image Information Systems, University of Maryland. He is also a member of Carestream’s Advisory Group, a collective of medical professionals that advises the company on healthcare IT trends.[/caption] Diagnostic Radiology is anticipating major and fundamental changes
Read More[caption id="attachment_2657" align="alignleft" width="100"] Helen Titus, Marketing Director, X-ray Solutions, Carestream[/caption] I have to take exception to a key statement in "The World Market for General Radiography and Fluoroscopy X-ray Equipment - 2013" report issued by IMS Research, a subsidiary of market research firm IHS. According
Read More[caption id="attachment_3920" align="alignleft" width="112"] Don Thompson, US&C Marketing Manager, Carestream[/caption] According to InMedica, today, “retrofit wireless detectors are the fastest growing segment of the flat panel detector (FPD) detector market in the Americas, and unit shipments will more than double from 2011 to 2016.”* But back
Read More[caption id="attachment_2657" align="alignleft" width="100"] Helen Titus, Marketing Director, X-ray Solutions, Carestream[/caption] The benefits of using a mobile X-ray system are numerous. Because of this, it becomes the responsibility of the radiology team to truly narrow down the specifics of what they are looking for in this
Read More[caption id="attachment_4316" align="alignleft" width="89"] Sam Richard, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Carestream[/caption] I recently had the pleasure of presenting research that addressed two key topics in medical imaging at ECR 2013: pediatric imaging and dose reduction. More specifically, reducing dose when capturing pediatric images. The research I took
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