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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Using the MedInformatix Radiology Information System (RIS), Imaging for Women has furthered its reputation for delivering diagnostic imaging services with exceptional urgency and has become one of the few practices in the region to satisfy the first phase of the U.S. federal government's Stage 1 Meaningful Use (MU) effort. A provision of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Meaningful Use program encourages...

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Interactive Spaces/Journal of Radiology Inc. (OTCQB: JRRD) completed its latest international trip with more success in Europe. The 10 day trip through Germany, Austria, Belgium and Netherlands completed many meetings with both immediate sales and long term potential. It is a few more links in an international chain. JRRD is a global provider of interactive digital network tools. The promise to extend its services in 2013...

PHILADELPHIA and SEATTLE, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Montage Healthcare Solutions, a provider of search-driven Radiology clinical quality analytics tools, and Mammography Reporting Systems (MRS), a provider of breast imaging, procedure reporting, patient tracking and risk assessment tools, have announced a partnership that will provide Montage's analytics tool to MRS customers, as well as enable MRS to resell the Montage Search and Analytics(TM) solution. MRS users can now...

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Shriners Hospitals for Children-Portland announces the availability of the new EOS® Imaging System, the first technology capable of providing full-body images of patients in a natural standing or sitting position, in 3D and with a low radiation dose. At the Portland Shriners Hospitals for Children more than 10,000-12,000 radiological images are taken each year of its 6,000 active patients. More than 40% of the X-rays taken are of...

AMSTERDAM, February 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Official new journal of the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging (ISFRI) now available on ScienceDirect Elsevier, [http://www.elsevier.com ] a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging (JOFRI), the official new journal of the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging (ISFRI)....

FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Catherine D. Buhler, a board-certified radiologist who is fellowship trained in breast imaging, has joined Radiologic Associates of Fredericksburg (RAF). Dr. Buhler is serving patients at the Imaging Center for Women in Fredericksburg. As a new member of RAF, Dr. Buhler specializes in interpreting the images of mammograms, breast ultrasounds and breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests for signs of breast cancer, and she also...

SIR joins national awareness program encouraging proper diagnosis and treatment of common, yet serious medical condition FAIRFAX, Va., Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Society of Interventional Radiology, an international organization of doctors, scientists and allied health professionals dedicated to improving public health through minimally invasive, image-guided treatments, joined as a member of the "Rethink Varicose Veins" coalition, an alliance of organizations united...

Researchers are improving the performance of technologies ranging from medical CT scanners to digital cameras using a system of models to extract specific information from huge collections of data and then reconstructing images like a jigsaw puzzle. The new approach is called model-based iterative reconstruction, or MBIR. "It's more-or-less how humans solve problems by trial and error, assessing probability and discarding extraneous information," said Charles Bouman, Purdue University's...

The underlying medical conditions facing young adults who undergo computed tomography (CT) exams represent a significantly greater health risk than that of radiation-induced cancer from CT, according to a new study published online, February 5, in the journal Radiology. OAK BROOK, Ill (PRWEB) February 04, 2013 The underlying medical conditions facing young adults who undergo computed tomography (CT) exams represent a significantly greater health risk than that of radiation-induced cancer...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The areas of the human brain responsible for our perception of shape and orientation have been discovered by researchers from a pair of UK-based universities – a discovery which they call an important advance in the understanding of how our minds process visual information. Scientists from the University of York Department of Psychology and the University of Bradford School of Optometry & Vision Science used functional...