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Category Archives: Increasing Source of Radiation Exposure

HistoScanning addresses clinical challenges in prostate patient management > B-K Medical > Analogic Corporation ALOG > Urology Ultrasound Market Leader > Advanced Medical Diagnostics > Innovative computer-aided solutions > Tissue Characterization Innovator > Increasing the efficiency and diagnostic value of prostate ultrasound > Major diagnostic modality

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

What will the results be when B-K Medical and Advanced Medical Diagnostics collaborate on HistoScanning tissue characterization technology for the prostate? Will HistoScanning and the proprietary tissue differentiation, visualization and measurement technology assist specialists in identifying changes to solid organ tissues? Can the technology extract new information from prostate ultrasound data in conjunction with transrectal […]

Filed in B-K Medical, Advanced Medical Diagnostics, Prostate ultrasound imaging, Michael Brock, The British Journal of Urology, B-K Medical Analogic Corporation ALOG, Dror Nir, Vision of noninvasive tissue characterization, Innovative computer-aided solutions, Increasing the efficiency and diagnostic value of prost, HistoScanning addresses clinical challenges in prostate, HistoScanning technology, Advanced Medical Diagnostics AMD, Management of Prostate Patients, Risk of exposure, indicators of instrument location, real time tracking and reference image registration, image registration, Endoscopy Endoscopic, Ultrasound imaging technology, Ulrasound transducer, intra-operative display to the operating physician, Ultrasound guidance for transmural visualization, Computed tomography CT scans, Increasing Source of Radiation Exposure, Medical Device Company, Entrepreneurs and investors, Advanced endoscopic non-NOTES procedures, Endoluminal Endolumenal Hollow Vessel | Comments (0)

Evidence of cancer risk from 62 million computed tomography CT scans Americans receive each year > Increasing Source of Radiation Exposure > CT scans implicated in 2% of cancers > Review article New England Journal of Medicine > Columbia University Center for Radiological Research > Evidence reasonably convincing for adults > Very convincing for children

Friday, January 4, 2008

Are there concerns about the risks from CT related to the rapid increase in its use? What effect will research and evidence of cancer risk from CT have on the growing number of scans? Are patients and medical professionals at risk of exposure?

IIP > read on here…
…The widespread use of CT represents probably the single […]

Filed in Risk of exposure, Diagnostic radiology, Columbia University Center for Radiological Research, New England Journal of Medicine, Computed tomography CT scans, Increasing Source of Radiation Exposure, Interventional cardiologists | Comments (0)