Search Tag: radiography

2014 21 Oct

Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in patients with haematological malignancies. A delay in treatment is associated with substantially increased hospital mortality. However, treatment is expensive, and can have serious side effects. From a clinical point of view, there is therefore a strong...Read more

2014 04 Sep

New solutions replace existing digital radiography systems, speeding up imaging and improving image quality   User-friendly, single-plate CR 30-X is designed for diagnostic imaging facilities of all sizes. DX-G digitizer unites excellent image quality with a drop-and-go buffer-based workflow, and when the needle-based detector option is...Read more

2014 25 Aug

A new cutting-edge technology, developed by scientists from the University of Manchester (UK), can locate and analyse bones - specifically spine fractures - in medical images. The tool will be useful in detecting early signs of osteoporosis, which occurs when a person has too little bone and is more prone to suffering fractures in the spine, wrists...Read more

2014 23 Aug

Quantitative fluoroscopy (QF) is an emerging technology for assessing continuous inter-vertebral motion in the lumbar spine. Automated frame-to-frame image registration provides continuous inter-vertebral rotational and translational data, giving more information about the function of the spine than AP, lateral, or flexion-extension (functional) radiographs....Read more