X-Ray Systems Articles
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The Role of MMP-3: Insights into Disease Progression and Therapeutic Potential
The MMP Family Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of enzymes belonging to the metzincin superfamily. There are 23 different types of secreted or membrane-anchored endopeptidases in the human body. MMPs are capable of degrading ECM proteins such as collagen, gelatin, laminin, fibronectin, fibrinogen, elastin, and proteoglycans. They were once considered regulators of the extracellular ...
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SpinTech MRI Earns FDA 510(k) Clearance for Rapid, Quantitative Brain-Imaging Technology
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given 510(k) clearance to SpinTech MRI’s latest magnetic resonance imaging software device, STAGE (STrategically Acquired Gradient Echo), a post-processing software platform that enables comprehensive, quantitative brain imaging with enhanced visualization in significantly less time than conventional approaches. STAGE allows MRI ...
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Teleradiology in Covid-19
The start of coronavirus pandemic pushed limits of healthcare systems all over the world by causing thousands of deaths and the requirement of a huge quantity of healthcare resources. When WHO declared COVID19 as a pandemic, the whole world came to standstill. Half of the world population is confined to their home except for essential services. In the year 2016, when GOI announced ...
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How ML Will Disrupt the Future of Clinical Radiology
The use of computer vision in radiology may have advantages for both patients and medical facilities. However, some worry that machine learning (ML) may one day replace doctors because it can outperform them. The desire for increased efficiency and efficacy in clinical care has been the primary motivating reason behind the development of AI in medical imaging. Recent technological developments, ...
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Microbot Medical Enhances its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) with its Newest Member Dr. Vincent Vidal
Prominent France based interventional radiologist to leverage his expertise to assist the Company to achieve its future objective for the LIBERTY® Robotic System HINGHAM, Mass., Sept. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Microbot Medical Inc. (Nasdaq: MBOT), which continues to build a network of global leaders in the endovascular interventional space for the LIBERTY® Robotic System, today ...
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Interventional Systems Successfully Proves Feasibility of MR-Compatible Robot
Interventional Systems finished the implementation of the IraSME project “E-GantryMate: Compact MR-compatible device for MRI-guided percutaneous needle interventions”. The project kick-off meeting took place in October 2019 at the company’s office in Wattens, Austria. It aimed at expanding and motorizing the MR-compatible manual targeting device previously developed by INS ...
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How IFIX Can Help With Contrast Shortage
Why is there a shortage of CT contrast? The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be the root cause of disruptions in the global supply chain. This time, it led to the temporary shutdown of a production facility in Shanghai, creating a severe shortage of iodinated contrast media (ICM) and affecting imaging facilities – especially in the US, with the American Hospital Association expressing its ...
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Diagnostic Radiology Consultants - Chattanooga - TN- Case Study
CAD PRO® Advantage Digitizer Provides Mammography Workflow Solution for Innovative Radiology Practice. For more than 50 years, Diagnostic Radiology Consultants (DRC) has pioneered imaging services in the tri-state area of Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. The innovative group, including 11 radiologists at 12 sites, often is the first to offer emerging technologies that positively impact ...
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CPT Codes: An Exciting Step Forward for Digital Pathology
Digital pathology has been rising in popularity over the past few years, thanks to the many efficiencies it offers pathologists. Now, the American Medical Association (AMA) has recognized this shift by announcing the introduction of 13 new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for digital pathology, set to go into effect in January 2023. The codes are Category III, defined as a ...
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The New Guidelines For Interventional Oncology - And How Micromate™ Seamlessly Fits Into Them
Interventional Oncology, the 4th pillar of modern cancer care Until the late 90s, modern cancer care consisted of three pillars of treatment: surgery (through tumor resection), radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. These pillars address tumors directly, removing or destroying lesions. Although immunotherapy specialists devised ingenious ways to use the patients’ own immune system to better ...
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Donegal Airport: First in Ireland to install ECAC EDS CB C3 Screening - Case Study
Installing HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX to improve passenger experience, security, throughput and operational efficiency at the central passenger screening checkpoint at Donegal Airport Ireland. LEADING THE WAY TO ECAC EDS CB C3 Donegal has long been famous for its spectacular coastline and an airport offering the ‘Most Scenic Approach in the World’ – now, the airport is also ...
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A New Device to Markedly Reduce Cardiac Cath Lab Radiation Levels
Background: Exposure of the heart team to scatter radiation is a serious environmental risk in the cardiac cath lab. While spot shielding reduces operator exposure, its effectiveness in reducing overall room scatter radiation (SR) levels, particularly during imaging with angulated x-ray views, is limited. We evaluated the effectiveness of a new, passive protection system (the EggNest) to reduce ...
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On the application of an environmental radiological assessment system to an anthropomorphic surrogate
Recent developments have seen the expansion of the system of radiological protection for humans to one including protection of the environment against detrimental effects of radiation exposure although a fully developed framework for integration of human and ecological risk assessment for radionuclides is only at an early stage. In the context of integration, significant differences can be ...
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A fuzzy inference system for two-phase flow regime identification from radiography images
Swiftly identifying the two-phase flow that occurs in coolant channels is crucial for monitoring energy producing installations such as boiling water reactors. In this piece of research, a Sugeno-type fuzzy inference system is implemented for online, non-invasive flow regime identification. The proposed system is predominantly efficient in its construction and operation: a single directly ...
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Radiation-induced DNA damage in patients exposed to X-rays during cerebral angiography
Population exposure to diagnostic and therapeutic ionising radiation is likely to increase worldwide, and this has raised concerns about the stochastic effects of low doses of radiation exposure. The present study was aimed to study the incidence of Chromosomal Aberrations (CAs) in patients exposed to low doses of X-rays during diagnostic interventional radiological procedures. Peripheral blood ...
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The evaluation of the dose equivalent to the people accompanying patients in diagnostic radiology using the MCNP4C Monte Carlo code and TL dosimetry
The general purpose Monte Carlo N-Particle Radiation Transport Computer Code (MCNP4C) was used to calculate the equivalent dose to the person or people accompanying patients who have been exposed to radiation that was scattered from the patient. To do the calculations, two homogeneous water phantoms were used to simulate the patient and the accompanying person. Finally, in the case of source ...
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Development of a System for the Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
We are now developing a system which allows the visualization of the structure and tissue associated with breast cancer, which is difficult to achieve with conventional mammography, by utilizing X-ray refraction. This system is expected to achieve an approximately 1000-fold higher contrast and high spatial resolution at low dose; compared to techniques by use of X-ray absorption. Monochromatic ...
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Mir-21 promotes glioma invasion by targeting mmp regulators
Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Neuroscience Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, ...
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European Commission international data and information exchange systems to assist EU Member States in case of radiological and nuclear emergencies
Shortly after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident the European Commission (EC) initiated various activities in order to make early notification and reliable radiological information available to the European Union (EU) Member States in case of nuclear accidents. The Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring (REM) group at the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the Joint ...
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Aerial radiological systems, measurements and analysis
This document describes data collection systems and procedures used by the US Department of Energy Aerial Measuring System (AMS) in response to a radiological emergency. The discussion is split into two parts: (1) those systems used on the fixed-wing aircraft and (2) those systems used on the helicopters. This split is principally caused by the final use of the data from each system. The ...
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