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RSNA

The Future of Imaging Is Bright: GE HealthCare Innovation Lights Up RSNA

Sophie Hares
Amanda Gintoft
November 30, 2022

As the healthcare industry feels the pressure of burgeoning costs and staff shortages, rapid advances in technology are playing a vital role in delivering efficient clinical care, from discovery and diagnosis to targeted treatment planning.

While the pandemic has left many hospitals struggling to meet backlogged demand, the benefits of the acceleration it prompted in digital healthcare and cutting-edge medical imaging technology are here to stay.

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Healthcare

Intelligent Efficiency: GE Healthcare CEO Kieran Murphy Talks About Lessons From Pandemic, Healthcare Future

Tomas Kellner
December 17, 2020

Every year after Thanksgiving, tens of thousands of doctors, hospital managers, equipment manufacturers and other medical industry professionals descend on Chicago for what might be the largest healthcare gathering in the world — the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). This year, however, was different as the action took place online for the first time in its 106 years.

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Electrification Software Healthcare

True Detectives: These Human Owls Are Using AI-Enhanced Ultrasound To Catch Cancer

January 10, 2020

Not much gets past Chad McClennan and his elite detective squad of owls (yes, you read that right). The “chief executive owl” of the healthcare startup Koios Medical, McClennan explains that several of his engineers were military sleuths before applying their talents to breast cancer detection. “They were working for a U.S. Army defense contractor, using facial recognition technology to catch bad guys in foreign lands,” he says. “They realized that the same techniques could be applied to radiology.”

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Electrification Software Healthcare

A Scanner Smartly: How Artificial Intelligence Is Making Healthcare Imaging Quicker, Kinder And More Efficient

Sam Worley
December 02, 2019
The music festival Lollapalooza is held every year in downtown Chicago, but that’s nothing compared to the gathering that’s been described as “Lollapalooza for radiologists”: the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, which kicked off Dec. 1 at Chicago’s McCormick Place.
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Mammography

Image Is Everything: This Industry-First Breast Biopsy Tool May Help Get Answers To Patients Faster

John H Tibbetts
November 30, 2019
Many patients wait long, anxious days for biopsy results, hoping for good news but bracing for the worst. The problem is especially pronounced for breast cancer patients, who often wait even longer — several weeks — just to schedule an MR-guided biopsy. MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, enables doctors to take a biopsy — a tissue sample — with a needle from the location of interest within the breast.
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medicine

Eye Robot: New Virtual Onsite Trainers Are Helping Hospitals Get The Most Out Of New Technology

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 27, 2016

In the hushed halls of the Universitario Quironsalud hospital in Madrid, there’s a new sound — the chatter of experts who are thousands of miles away helping doctors get the most out of their new high-tech diagnostic equipment.

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Medical Imaging

These Machines Helped Unveil Secrets Of The Human Body

Tomas Kellner
January 26, 2016
Thomas Edison’s light bulb patent was 15 years old when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays and proved their power by imaging the bones inside his wife's hand. "I've seen my death," she reportedly said after seeing the picture. But GE co-founder Elihu Thomson had longevity in mind. A year after Roentgen's discovery, he modified Edison's light bulb to emit X-rays and used it to build the first X-ray machine.
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Medical Imaging

See the Heart in 7 Dimensions: This Team of Researchers Attacks World’s Biggest Killer with Software

Drew Field
December 03, 2015
By the time you’re done reading this story, heart disease will have killed nearly 40 people in Europe. The picture elsewhere isn’t much different. The World Health Organization reported earlier this year that more people die from cardiovascular disease than from any other cause.
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Breast Cancer

This Nuclear Physicist Is Using Her Skills and Passion to Build a Better Mammography Machine

December 03, 2015
In the 1960s, French radiologist Charles Gros working at University of Strasbourg, asked the imaging machine maker Compagnie Générale de Radiologie (CGR) to find a way to build a dedicated device for X-ray breast imaging that would provide better images than conventional equipment and was also more comfortable for women.
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When A Mammogram Isn’t Enough: Doctors Talk About the Future of Breast Cancer Screening

December 03, 2014

In 1965, French radiologist Charles Gros built the first X-ray machine dedicated to screening breasts and effectively launched mammography as a viable breast cancer test. The machine, which was built by Thomson CGR, used a special X-ray tube developed by his colleague Emile Gabbay. It was made from molybdenum and emitted low-energy radiation that produced uniform images and contrast that allowed doctors to see breast tissue in greater detail.

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