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.