Yesterday, 8 November 2018, marked the 123rd anniversary of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. It has been […]
Posts Tagged ‘MRI’
It’s All About Speed
One of the challenges when imaging the breast is to distinguish benign lesions from those that are malignant. With ultrasound, […]
Politics Trumps Common Sense
On 3 April 2018 the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published a list of 1,300 products imported from China that would be […]
A Review of Breast Imaging
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Breast Screening Programme in the UK and, to mark the occasion, the Royal […]
Spotlight on Imaging Costs
Why is health care spending in the United States so much greater than in other high-income countries? That’s the provocative […]
The Time is Now
The majority of specialists working in medical imaging are diagnostic radiologists, while a relatively small number practise interventional radiology, with […]
Not Just Moonshots
The term “moonshot” was coined by Google X, the secret research division at Alphabet, to describe a technology with three attributes: groundbreaking; […]
Breast Imaging in DIEurope
Diagnostic Imaging Europe is published in both online and hardcopy formats eight times a year and distributed to 25,000 radiologists […]
Anatomy of a Biography
When Allan MacLeod Cormack, joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for “the development of computer assisted tomography” passed […]
RFIDs Guide the Surgeon
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, which employ electromagnetic fields, have a history stretching back to World War II. Passive tags contain electronically stored […]