The success rate of liver transplants for patients with HCC improves when patient selection is based, in part, on the so-called Milan criteria. The liver transplant patients selection criteria are traditionally assessed by contrast CT and MRI, which is known…
The imaging assessment of trauma patients has undergone dramatic changes over the past several years. Specifically, when spine injury is suspected, there has been a shift from radiography to multidetector computed tomography (CT), which provides faster and more accurate evaluation…
In the past few decades, thyroid cancer has been diagnosed earlier, providing an opportunity for treatment before the cancer has spread beyond the thyroid and improving survival rates. Proper therapy has the potential to reduce recurrence and mortality rates. Although…
Recently GE Healthcare announced the release of its Optima PET/CT 560, which designed to address the demands of today’s healthcare environment, combining superb image quality, high productivity and a patient friendly experience that can continuously deliver ongoing value over time. …
Proton beam therapy is a medical procedure, a type of particle therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue. Proton therapy's chief advantage over other types of external beam radiotherapy is that it can more precisely localize the radiation dose. In conventional X-ray radiation treatments the…
In lung cancer, the prognosis is poor. Chest X-rays have long been used by doctors to diagnose lung cancer in people who have symptoms of the disease. But in 15 to 30 percent of the cases the disease has already…