Nuance Purchases ECopy Imaging and Scanning Softwareby
Medical Quackscanning a document in paper format and then store and format for a digital record. BD
Burlington, MA-based Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN ) said today it has purchased imagescanning and indexing company e...
Nuclear Medicine Breast Imagingby
Aaron Tabor
medicine breast imaging. The current state of research into nuclear medicine breast imaging was discussed in the Fall 2009 issue of the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) Newsletter. According to an article in the SBI...
Generally, various types of scans show the size and shape of parts of the body, but not how well they are working. An isotope scan provides doctors with this information...
"Heart scans" are not always heart scansby
Dr. William D.
Beware of the media reports now being issued that warn that "CT heart scans" pose a risk for cancer.
One report can be viewed at
http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20070717/ct-heart-scan...
Note to Self:by
Respiratory Therapy
through a ventilator to prepare for a V-Q scan, exercise caution. When the O2 line pops off of the radioactive neb..., the nuclear medicine technician will cheerfully scan your whole body with a geiger counter while helpfully...
MONT Congress 2009 Debrecenby
Imre Kissik and Andras Szekely
and patient education. To examine these opportunities, we founded our diagnostic imaging blog, called... about the latest in diagnostic imaging. We hosted a four-week educational quiz in partnership with the University...
Podcast 5 Flash 3Dby
Rob W.
://jnm.snmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/45/9/1501
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Vol. 45 No. 9 1501-1508
Tomographic Imaging...
new here
Hello I am a Nuclear Medicine technologist in Upstate New York and found this site and would just like to learn more about the "patients" perspective of dealing with the disease. My own level of contact is limited but have been involved directly for over 12 years with doing diagnostic imaging of breast Cancer...crap
Severe lower back pain, nausea, vomiting, high WBC
MRI, CT Scan, Bone Scan, blood cultures, negative. In hospital for three days due to high WBC. On third day of hospital stay blood tests all normal. Never have had severe pain like this kind of pain ever! 3 childbirths were a breeze compared to this. Nothing on test results to indicate kidney stones...crap
How to Read Your Heart Scan Results
In my last post, I discussed what a heart scan score, or coronary calcium score, means... blood pressure, or c-reactive protein, a heart scan score tells you that coronary atherosclerotic plaque, the stuff of heart attack and heart disease, is present and how much.
So, say you have a heart scan...crap
CT Heart Scans versus CT Coronary Angiograms scans for the heart. The article discusses the potential for overuse of this and other diagnostic... discuss both CT heart scans and CT coronary angiograms, they confuse the two and use the terms... different ends of a wide spectrum.
Likewise with CT scans of the heart.
A heart scan is a simple...crap
Russert's Death Deemed Preventable: What You Need to Ask Your Doctor
Mr. Russert had a heart scan in 1998. Score: 210. What does that mean?
It means that Mr. Russert.... Heart scans provide a precise, measurable index of coronary atherosclerotic plaque. They provide a level.... If his heart attack was predictable, it was also preventable.
Heart scan scores can be expected to increase...crap
Heart Scans, Nurse-o-scopes, and Medical Secrets: Oh My!
of physician-as-dictator in the growing availability of heart scans to uncover hidden heart disease... atherosclerotic plaque is present.
Heart scans make detection of coronary heart disease a 30 second, hold... just at risk factors.
But, heart scans are the blood pressure cuff of 1910: still fairly new...crap
I have had a headache for almost 3 months
Have had a MRI, Brain Scan, Caroid Artery Scan, Total Blood workup, Spinal Tap, Sleep Aphena Study. Everything but the sleep study came back normal. I fainted on March 15th, do not know how long I was out, this is the first time I ever passed out, when I woke up I had the headache...crap
I have had a headache for almost 3 months,
Have had a MRI, Brain Scan, Caroid Artery Scan, Total Blood workup, Spinal Tap, Sleep Aphena Study. Everything but the sleep study came back normal. I fainted on March 15th, do not know how long I was out, this is the first time I ever passed out, when I woke up I had the headache...crap
Too soon to show up?
I had a regular blood test with a liver scan for my cholesteral about 45 days after a potential exposure. Is that too soon to show any signs of hepatitis or would that kind of test not find any signs..." ,meaning liver tests ,it may be early to detect acute B or C Hepatitis.The term "liver scan" ,is...crap