Jefferson Researcher Finds New Digital X-Ray Technology May Cut Costs And Improve Patient Care
...year extensively studying the DirectRay digital radiography technology designed by Sterling Diagnostic Imag... technology, said the images produced by digital radiography are equivalent to those produced by film-based radiography. The technology has also been studi...Filmless System Puts X-Ray Images On The Web
... Instead of printing an image to film, computed radiography reads X-ray platesand composes a matrix image. The computer transmits digital image informationand creates a high-resolution image. At the click of a mouse, the images appear and can be manipulated on acomputerscreen. Images are stored on op...Studies: New imaging technique improves X-rays of breast tissue
...the results. DEI differs from traditional X-ray radiography in that an "analyzing" crystal is placed in the X-ray beam between the object being studied and an image-creating medium such as film, X-ray plate or digital detector, Sayers said. The silicon crystal diffracts a particular wavelength of X-ray throug...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February (second issue)
...aller size and earlier stage ascompared with chest radiography and clinical practice. However, along with the cancers, the investigators identified 2,244 uncalcified nodules in over 1,000 patients after two years of study. They estimated that 98 percent of the nodules were falsely positive. The investigators ...Group offers guidelines on qualifications
...duals to be certified in both nuclear medicine and radiography in order to perform PET-CT examinations," explaine...certified in nuclear medicine and one certified in radiography would be required to operate the machine. Fewer than 5,000 radiologic technologists nationwide are...Research reveals no benefit of rapid MRI over X-rays in patients with low back pain
...at X-rays are not useful. By looking at the images radiography and also MRI create, doctors cannot predict who will and who will not suffer the sometimes debilitating pain and often cannot reliably ascribe anatomical changes to current symptoms. Still, patients have expected X-rays, or more recently MRI, for man...Study suggests radiography unnecessary to identify TB in HIV pts in some settings
...ddition to history and physical examination, chest radiography be done on each patient being assessed for prevent...therapy. However, cost and accessibility of chest radiography are important issues to be balanced against its potential effectiveness in less-developed countries....UK study quantifies cancer risk from diagnostic X-rays
...ic X-rays. Diagnostic X-rays (used in conventional radiography and imaging techniques such as computed tomography [CT]) are the largest man-made source of radiation exposure to the general population, contributing about 14% of the total annual exposure worldwide from all sources. Although diagnostic X-rays provi...Dental X-rays of pregnant women associated with low-weight babies
... are pregnant areeligible to receive very low dose radiography to the head and neck, becauseresearchers had assumed that only direct radiation to the uterus or fetuswould be harmful, and that radiation to the head and neck region would nothave negative effects on pregnancies. The possibility that radiation maya...Dental X-rays during pregnancy associated with low birth weight babies
Pregnant women who are exposed to dental radiography may be more likely to give birth to an infant who ...dental x-ray radiation. "Because dental diagnostic radiography results in measurable radiation doses to the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis and not the reprodu...Special incubators allow high-quality imaging of critically ill newborns
...most accurate non-invasive diagnostic test. Unlike radiography (x-rays) and computed tomography (CT), MR imaging carries no radiation risk. "The MR-compatible incubator streamlines the MR examinations of newborns and allows the nursing staff to do most of the patient preparation inside the NICU's (neonate inten...Radiologists back judicious use of CT pulmonary angio in women because of radiation dose to breast
...d gases, D-dimer assays, Doppler studies and chest radiography are tools that can be appropriately used to triage patients with suspected acute pulmonary thromboembolic disease, especially in out-patient and emergency department settings." Radiologists often manipulate scan parameters (e.g., reduce tube current,......d, 32% for special procedures and 23% for computed radiography from 1997 to 2002, said David Broumandi, MD. Meanwhile, staffing stayed the same at 6.7, Dr. Broumandi said. "The work-related relative value units (WRVU) per full-time equivalent radiologist was 6,602 (prior to PACS); that number increased by 39% t...