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  Medical imaging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Medical imaging is the process by which sonographers evaluate an area of the subject's body that is not normally visible.
Medical imaging may be "clinical", seeking to diagnose and examine disease in specific human patients (see pathology).
Medical ultrasonography uses high frequency sound waves of between 3.5 to 7.0 megahertz that are reflected by tissue to varying degrees to produce a 2D image, traditionally on a TV monitor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medical_imaging   (850 words)

  
 Medical Imaging: October 2005: The Changing Face of Women's Imaging
Medical Imaging: October 2005: The Changing Face of Women's Imaging
Converging technologies in imaging are altering women’s healthcare, making room for quicker diagnoses and treatments.
Improvements in pediatric imaging are providing faster scans, less radiation, and better distraction methods—pluses for patients and physicians alike.
www.medicalimagingmag.com   (164 words)

  
 Medical Imaging   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This technology, combined with the compassion and caring of the medical imaging staff at Overlake Hospital, provides a healing environment where medical excellence is standard.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging is provided by Washington Imaging Services in the Overlake Medical Tower.
Medical Imaging services are available to outpatients from 7am to 5pm, Monday through Friday.
www.overlakehospital.org /services/imaging/default.aspx   (133 words)

  
 Medical College of Wisconsin - Medical Physics and Imaging Science
The Division of Medical Physics and Imaging Science of the Department of Radiology provides research and clinical training for Biophysics graduate students in the area of diagnostic medical physics.
Both dual energy x-ray absorptiometry and quantitative computed topography are used to provide quantitative measurements for causes of body mass atrophy in the aging population and the genetic influence in obesity.
The section is also actively involved in evaluation of mammography imaging techniques, quality control test tools, phantoms, and provides medical physics consultation service in mammography and general diagnostic imaging.
www.mcw.edu /medphys/learning.htm   (194 words)

  
 Core Medical Imaging
Provide top notch medical digital imaging solutions to hospitals, clinics and imaging centers in the Pacific Northwest.
Employ expert staff averaging over 17 years of experience in the medical imaging field, right here in the Northwest.
Medical Imaging Magazine looks at the Everett Clinic as a case study in the all-important DR decision process.
www.coremedicalimaging.com   (229 words)

  
 medical imaging supplies
Often when you are looking for better info about medical imaging supplies, it will be easier said than done seperating value-packed advice from unprofessional medical imaging supplies proposals and support so it is important to recognize how to qualify the advice you are presented with.
Here are a few tips that we believe you should use when you are searching for info about medical imaging supplies.
All reputable sites providing information about medical imaging supplies, will almost always provide an about or contact page which will list the owner details The details should disclose some advice about the website owners expertise.
www.medical-supplies-uniforms.com /medical_imaging_supplies.htm   (160 words)

  
 Pediatric Radiology | Pediatric Imaging | Paediatric Radiology | Paediatric Imaging | Pediatrics | Paediatrics - ...
University of Iowa - Pediatric Non-Breath-Hold Cardiac MR Imaging
University of Minnesota - Imaging in Pediatric Abdominal Emergencies
University of Minnesota - Imaging of Pediatric Blunt Abdominal Trauma
pediatricradiology.com   (1530 words)

  
 Medical Imaging
We were founded by individuals whose stated mission was to provide exceptional diagnostic imaging quality, and to exceed both patient and physician expectations for service and patient care.
After nearly two decades, we are firmly established as the leader for care, convenience and excellence in imaging.
We are the most innovative imaging facility in the State of Idaho.
ww2.ktvb.com /Global/category.asp?C=55058&nav=O9bR   (803 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Foundations of Medical Imaging   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cho, Joie P. Jones, Manbir Singh "The study of medical imaging is concerned with the interaction of all forms of radiation with tissue and the development of appropriate technology to extract..." (more)
Designed to provide those engaged in modern medical imaging with a coherent perspective of the entire discipline so that one protocol is no longer an isolated or independent mode of imaging from others, to wit: single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
The study of medical imaging is concerned with the interaction of all forms of radiation with tissue and the development of appropriate technology to extract clinically useful information from observations of this interaction.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471545732?v=glance   (724 words)

  
 Kent Medical Imaging - West Malling and Sevenoaks - ultrasound examination clinics for private and NHS patients
Kent Medical Imaging - West Malling and Sevenoaks - ultrasound examination clinics for private and NHS patients
Kent Medical Imaging was established in 1995 as a 'Partnership', working from local NHS hospitals, to deliver screening services to private patients.
As a result of this, Kent Medical Imaging was re-established in 1999 as a ‘Limited Company’, delivering a wide range of ultrasound and bone densitometry services from its new clinic at Kings Hill, West Malling in Kent.
www.kentmedicalimaging.co.uk   (210 words)

  
 CPIT - Medical Imaging - Home
An advert for Medical Imaging staff in the newspaper, and her husband's transfer to Christchurch, inspired her to enrol at CPIT for a Bachelor of Medical Imaging.
The Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology Bachelor of Medical Imaging blends high tech with a personal touch by combining the knowledge of science and technology with an understanding of human values.
The Bachelor of Medical Imaging is the required qualification for a Medical Radiation Technologist (MRT).
www.cpit.ac.nz /subjects/medicalimaging   (429 words)

  
 Medical Imaging
The field of radiology, now frequently referred to as medical imaging, began more than 100 years ago with the accidental discovery of an X-ray.
Today, Swedish offers the very latest in state-of-the-art medical imaging to provide physicians and other medical professionals with the diagnostic tools they need to pinpoint an injury or illness and then prescribe the appropriate treatment.
Two new cameras feature a design that is less claustrophobic for the patient and allows for imaging patients on stretchers and beds and in wheelchairs.
www.swedish.org /body.cfm?id=145   (562 words)

  
 JHU Medical Imaging Lab Home Page
The Medical Imaging Lab was established in 1991 in the Department of Biomedical Engineering with funding from a Whitaker Foundation Development Award.
The faculty and students associated with the lab are interested in the development of new imaging techniques and advanced applications of existing techniques to solve problems in medicine and biology.
A training program in medical imaging has been established in the department for both undergraduate and graduate students.
www.mri.jhmi.edu /MedImgLab   (867 words)

  
 Medical Imaging - Welcome
Imaging cost growth in line with other hospital costs, says study More...
Research!America —an alliance of organizations supporting medical research—praises medical imaging for saving lives and health costs More...
Medical imaging is driving productivity gains throughout health care
www.medicalimaging.org   (284 words)

  
 Medical Image Processing
Medical Imaging Internet Resources A similar list of geographically-grouped resources is also available.
The University of Texas at Arlington's MR Imaging Group Research Exhibit's link to additional medical imaging facilities.
Medical Image Archive This medical image archive contains a selection of clinically acquired images that cannot be associated with any living or dead individual.
www.geocities.com /Tokyo/1158/medicalIP.html   (918 words)

  
 Medical Technology Consulting & Medical Imaging Links
Medical Technology Consulting works with manufacturers of medical imaging equipment and with hospitals and clinics that use this equipment to provide strategic planning, marketing, and technology assessment services to the entire medical imaging community.
Manufacturers often wish to enter new medical imaging markets or to expand their presence in an existing market.
Medical Technology Consulting has extensive experience in defining clinical problems, formulating requirements for technical solutions, and in assessing potential solutions.
www.medtechcon.com   (142 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: Medical imaging
Research based resource aiming to advance patient care using medical imaging with a focus on spiral CT and 3D imaging.
IMI provides a network of fellow professionals, working together to improve and develop medical illustration by means of conferences, courses and regional meetings.
Project aiming to create, maintain and deliver a collection of medical images in digital form, for use in teaching and research.
www.bubl.ac.uk /Link/m/medicalimaging.htm   (540 words)

  
 University of Toronto Department of Medical Imaging   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Department of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto is the largest Medical Imaging department in Canada.
The department's major objectives are to achieve and maintain excellence in patient care, teaching, and research in the fields of Medical Imaging and imaging related procedures.
We have a comprehensive teaching program in the residency program with a full series of formal lectures in clinical imaging, imaging physics, epidemiology, and research methodology.
www.utoronto.ca /imaging   (321 words)

  
 Phillips Medical Imaging Systems & Parts from TransAmerican
TransAmerican Medical Imaging (TMI) supplies the highest quality, pre-owned and remanufactured Phillips, Picker, and OEC parts and systems.
Upgrading, maintaining, or expanding your imaging systems or practice is easy with reliable, warranted TMI parts.
If you are a medical imaging professional or manager, register with us and qualify to enter our free P4 lap top give away.
www.medical-imaging-parts.com   (205 words)

  
 RSNA.org: MIRC: Medical Imaging Resource Center
The MIRC project develops tools to enable the medical imaging community to share images and information for education, research and clinical practice—within an institution and via the Internet.
RSNA takes no responsibility for the quality of these materials or for any outcomes resulting from their use, including the accuracy of any medical advice provided or the disclosure of any personal medical information.
MIRC tools are made freely available for use by the medical imaging community.
www.rsna.org /mirc   (371 words)

  
 Medical Imaging
Medical Art has compressed macpaint format files (mirror of UMich mac archives) same site has general software including hypercard stacks & demos, lots of AIDS stuff, notecard (Pathology exam program) and includes a mirror of Brazil ftp site with IBM PC software.
Medical Imaging Networked Consortium, Informatics at Pathology Dept. of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has consortium info, cases, quiz, some protocols.
Medical Imaging Newsgroup, alt.image.medical has discussion of medical images, largely slanted towards radiology, with occasional posted binary images.
www.urmc.rochester.edu /smd/pathres/Image.html   (1175 words)

  
 Medical Imaging: CT MRI PET X-ray
The Research Institute was initiated in 1980 as a section of the Cardiovascular Medical Group of Southern California (CVMG).
The AMIL is headed by Elliot K. Fishman, M.D., and includes several radiologists, a computer scientist, multimedia developer (Melissa Garland), and a medical illustrator (Frank Corl).
The AMIL is part of the Department of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Highrise/1713/medical.html   (837 words)

  
 DICOM Imaging SDK: Medical Imaging Toolkit - Programming DICOM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging includes hand-picked and optimized features to meet the specific needs of medical imaging application development, such as full DICOM dataset support, support for 8-16 bit grayscale, and 12 and 16 bit image processing and display with window leveling and LUT processing.
DICOM 3 (2003 file specification), the industry standard medical imaging format/protocol is fully and completely supported, allowing programmers access to medical images retrieved from digital imaging modalities such as CT and MR scanners.
Rounding out the set of functionality in the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging toolkit is a comprehensive set of image processing functions.
www.leadtools.com /SDK/Medical/Medical-Imaging.htm   (852 words)

  
 Geometry in Action: Medical Imaging   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A key problem in medical computation is reconstruction of shapes (of organs, bones, tumors etc) from lower dimensional information such as CAT scans and sonograms.
A different problem relates to compression of medical images for transmission and storage; this differs from most other applications of image compression in that little or no loss of information can be tolerated.
Processing and display of medical three dimensional arrays of numerical data using octree encoding, Amans and Darrier, Proc.
www.ics.uci.edu /~eppstein/gina/medic.html   (497 words)

  
 Multi Imager® - Specialized Medical Imaging
Multi Imager® Service, LLC (Chino, CA) was founded in 1983 as a sales and service provider specializing in diagnostic imaging and radiology equipment for the medical radiology profession.
As a specialist in the field of medical imaging, Multi Imager® covers a broad range of technologies and associated OEM brands.
PC boards and related accessories can be repaired at a fraction of the cost of replacement and film cassettes and magazines are repaired or replaced at an exchange price, which is far below the cost of a new purchase.
www.multiimager.com   (902 words)

  
 Three Dimensional Medical Reconstruction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
These images are derived from slice data from a variety of medical image modalities such as MR or CT. The two dimensional slice data from these scanners is used as input for the three dimensional reconstructions.
This project, called the Visible Human, has already produced computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and physical cross-sections of a human male cadaver.
Higher power levels were used in the CT imaging giving very clear detail of the arteries.
www.crd.ge.com /esl/cgsp/projects/medical   (614 words)

  
 Pegasus Imaging | Medical Image Compression Toolkit, SDK | JPEG, JPEG2000, JPEG-LS
Pegasus Imaging delivers an entire suite of image compression technologies and software development tools designed for medical imaging application development.
Considered the best supported, most solid, and advanced libraries in the industry, Pegasus Imaging technology is relied upon within leading PACS, teleradiology, ultrasound, and cardiology applications.
Medical imaging application developers can use MedXpress, a powerful and easy to use ActiveX/COM components toolkit, to rapidly build advanced network-enabled DICOM applications.
www.pegasusimaging.com /medical.htm   (777 words)

  
 Del Global Technologies Announces Supply Agreements with Novation; Del Medical Imaging Inks Deals with Major National ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Del Medical has been awarded a dual-source agreement for general radiology (non-acute care) equipment and a multi-source agreement for digital radiography systems and accessories.
DEL Medical's product lines are known for their reliability and high quality diagnostic imaging capabilities.
Del Global Technologies Corp. is primarily engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of cost-effective medical imaging and diagnostic systems consisting of stationary and portable x-ray systems, radiographic/fluoroscopic systems, dental imaging systems and proprietary high-voltage power conversion subsystems for medical and other critical industrial applications.
www.forbes.com /businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2005/07/28/businesswire20050728006064r1.html   (869 words)

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