Cardiology: Severe stress might protect the heart from very high levels of adrenaline!

A condition that temporarily causes heart failure in people who experience severe stress might actually protect the heart from very high levels of adrenaline, according to a new study published in the journal Circulation.

Ultrasound: Tracking of disease helps New ultrasound technology Scanning.

New research conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA, USA) could improve the ability of untrained workers to perform fundamental ultrasound scanning, while allowing trained workers to much more effectively

Radiography: New Certegra workstation opportunity Dose Management Systems

A new workstation is an informatics-driven touch-screen hub that enables timesavings and improved patient care through a powerful range of computed tomography (CT) contrast dose-management applications and a new P3T 2.0 operating environment.

Nuclear Medicine: Reducing the size of a Proton Therapy System reduces Operational costs

New patented technology can considerably reduce the cost of implementing and running proton therapy centers.

 Mevion Medical Systems, Inc. (Littleton, MA, USA), a radiation therapy company focused advancing the treatment of cancer, has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its MevionS250 proton therapy system.

Radiography: Clinically Complex for Emergency Department

The overwhelming majority (93.8%) of patients undergoing computed tomography (CT) scanning of the abdomen and pelvis (CTAP) in the emergency department (ED) setting are classified as clinically complex, according to a recent study. Clinically complex is used to define patients who are, based on documentation of their ED physician, much more ill than others.

Nuclear Medicine: Increase in Life Expectancy due to Metabolic Imaging

Initial staging of esophageal cancer is of particular importance as it determines whether to opt for a curative treatment or palliative treatment for the patient. New findings have revealed that physicians employing positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) imaging can distinguish incremental staging data about the cancer, which can significantly impact management plans.

Nuclear Medicine: Radiosurgical Technology reduction in the intensity of therapy improves patient outcomes

More than 500 oncology professionals at a European radiotherapy and oncology congress recently heard about cutting-edge treatments using high dose rate capability of sophisticated radiosurgery technology.

Cardiology: Tissue Engineered Vein Transplant On Child Patient A Success

A 10-year old girl with portal vein obstruction had her quality of life drastically improved by receiving a successful transplantation of the first biologically tissue-engineered vein grown from the patient's own stem cells.

Radiography: Created new wireless portable detector (WPD)!

A new wireless portable detector (WPD) has been developed to share functionality on static and mobile digital radiography (DR) and digital radiography/fluoroscopy (DRF) equipment.

Nuclear Medicine: Huge Increase In Radiation Exposure From Diagnostic Imaging

It is easy to have sympathy for doctors and hospital staff. With better technology available to look inside a patient´s body, the temptation to use it as often as possible must be huge. Since the mid 90s, with more advanced computers and better, cheaper scanning equipment more widely available, the use of computed tomography has trippled between 1996 and 2010, while magnetic resonance imaging has qradrupled, and there as been a substantial increase in estimated radiation exposure.

MRI: Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI May Predict Chemotherapy’s Effectiveness

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide an indication of a breast tumor’s response to presurgical chemotherapy considerably earlier than possible through clinical examination, according to a new study.

 The study’s findings were published online May 25, 2012, in the journal Radiology. Women with breast cancer often undergo chemotherapy prior to surgery. Research has shown that women who receive this treatment, known as neoadjuvant chemotherapy, are more likely to achieve breast conservation than those receiving chemotherapy after surgery.

Ultrasound: Ultrasound Imaging of Blood Flow Provides New Clues into Cardiac Abnormalities, Dysfunction

US cardiologists are innovating new ultrasound techniques that provide the first characterization of multidirectional blood flow in the heart. By concentrating on fluid dynamics--specifically, the researchers believe they can detect heart disease even when conventional diagnostics reveal no sign of abnormality.

Radiography: Using Breath Hold Technique Helps Radiotherapy

Respiratory movement during radiotherapy makes it difficult to hit the correct treatment target and this in turn can lead to an under-dose of radiation to the tumor, or a potentially toxic overdose to the surrounding healthy tissue. Getting this right is a major task for the radiotherapist, but new techniques are helping to deliver the correct dose to the appropriate place.

Nuclear Medicine: Using 3D Image-Guided Brachytherapy avoids the need for hysterectomies.

Delivering radiotherapy directly to cancer of the cervix using three-dimensional (3D) imaging techniques is effective at controlling the reoccurrence and metastasis of the disease, and in most instances, avoids the need for hysterectomies.