MRI Network

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

An army of employees are needed to meet today’s global sustainability challenges – product designers, supply managers, economists, scientists, architects and many others with the knowledge to both recognize unsustainable practices and find ways to improve sustainability. Employers are increasingly looking for people with these qualifications and skills.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Image distribution technology developer RealTimeImage (RTI) has released a new x-ray quality assurance meter it calls Mako. The multimodality, modular x-ray meter is accurate to 1.5% kilovoltage peak (kVp) uncertainty, the company said. It protects "patients and medical staff from unnecessary x-ray dose while ensuring the best image quality and prolonging system lifetime," it noted, and Mako can be used with x-ray, fluoroscopy, mammography, and CT applications.

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JVIR

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A 50-year-old woman presented with left-sided headaches, visual disturbance, and intermittent left-sided pulsatile tinnitus. She had a history of a left-sided meningioma resected 3 years prior, thyroidectomy with radioactive ablation for follicular thyroid cancer, and surgical hypoparathyroidism. Consent for this study was obtained directly from the patient, and institutional review board (IRB) approval was exempted.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Canon Medical Systems plans to accelerate its clinical research on photon-counting CT (PCCT), both domestically and internationally. In April, the company began joint research on PCCT with the National Cancer Center Hospital East in Kashiwa City, Chiba, Japan. It has also inked partnerships with Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Hiroshima University in Hiroshima, Japan.

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