Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Cambridge, Ontario, has recently updated its medical imaging department with a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The latter was delivered last month and it worth $4-million. Spokesperson of the hospital, Stephan Beckhoff, said that trial scans were carried ou...

November 2, 2011—Resonance Technology Company, Inc. (Northridge, Ca.), an innovator in high-performance MRI-compatible technology, debuts at RSNA 2011 an array of enhancements to its advanced CinemaVision MRI video entertainment system and functional MRI (fMRI) product line. Debuting at RSNA is s...

The Church Street Site of Humber River Regional Hospital, Weston, Ontario, has recently improved its diagnostic imaging services following the implementation of a new MRI system in the facility. The new MRI unit is the second for Humber River Regional Hospital. It is going to permit the hospital to...

Queen’s Park announced that access to important MRI diagnostic scans will be improved at Brampton Civic Hospital due to a one-time cash investment declared by the government Friday (Jan. 21). “This investment in our community will make it easier for people who need an MRI scan to get tested and...

A recent study conducted in Boston has used a new imaging technique, a specialized type of MRI scan, to detect the debilitating brain conditions caused by repeated concussions due frequent hitting that football players usually encounter. Football players may start to develop memory and behavior prob...

According to a new study, CT and MRI scans have been increasingly used, by almost the triple since 1998, in the emergency rooms at the hospitals of the United States. However, this marked increase has not been accompanied with a corresponding improvement in the rates of detection of life-threatening...

MRI is one of the medical imaging options that have proven significant role for diagnosis of several conditions, ranging from bone and joint injuries till detection of breast cancer in women. MRI provides high quality images accompanied with relatively high safety profile; however, there are patient...

There is no doubt that diagnostic imaging procedures have been showing significantly increasing importance every day. Such procedures are playing a major role in early detection and diagnosis of several conditions allowing healthcare providers to plan appropriate treatments as soon as possible. Yet...

There are several precautions accompanied with the use of MRI, among them is that is it is not recommended for patients using pacemakers. However, statistics mention that 1 of five patients using pace makers will need to perform, at least once, an MRI scan. Jean-Nicolas Dacher MD at the celebrated c...

According to several reports, some cancer patients are postponing their own diagnosis as a result of a reluctance to get checked by CT scans. Last March, concerns were raised about over-using of CT scans in Australia. Doctors were asked to stop the excessive requesting of scans as there are worries ...