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Imaging centre boosts patient care services in Sicily

With investments in two new, top-of-the-line DR solutions plus the innovative Portal, the imaging centre owned by Dr. Francesco Fiumara offers a higher level of healthcare service in Sicily, Italy. Established in 1986, the Centro di Diagnostica per Immagini Dr. Francesco Fiumara is today recognized as the best diagnostic centre in the eastern region of […]

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The bidirectional relationship between CVD and cancer

Cardiovascular disease is the most frequent cause of mortality globally, with cancer the second most frequent cause: CVD accounts for over 30percent, and cancer around 17percent, of deaths worldwide. In the more affluent western countries, because of the enormous improvements in diagnosis and management of CVD, cancer has overtaken CVD as the leading cause of […]

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Emergency radiology – has CT growth peaked ?

Since the late 1990s, emergency radiology has become one of the fastest developing areas of medicine. It is now commonplace not only in Europe, the US and Japan but also in major urban centres of several developing countries. The appropriate use of emergency radiology expedites patient care, prevents unnecessary hospital admissions and emergency surgery and […]

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Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance – new frontiers against cancer, but some way still to go

Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (DCE-MRI) is a functional imaging technique. It consists of MRI scans coupled to the injection of a contrast agent. The latter leads to a decrease in relaxation time and provides extremely detailed characteristics of the micro-circulation of blood through tissue. DCE-MRI assessments typically use the characteristics of signal intensity (SI) and […]

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Imaging: the new frontier for clinical decision support

The clinical decision support (CDS) system is one of the most exciting areas of healthcare IT. It leverages state-of-the-art IT tools ranging from data-mining algorithms to complex neural networks, and seeks to address one of healthcare IT’s biggest challenges – Big Data. For its proponents, CDS is a means to standardize clinical practice with a […]