Medical Imaging News

Lower-Dose Verteporfin Effective for Serous Chorioretinopathy
Medscape News – This was followed by angiography and laser application 2 minutes thereafter. At 1 month, the median best corrected visual acuity significantly improved from 20/40 to 20/30. Mean central retinal thickness was also significantly reduced from 276

Definition of Central Serous Retinopathy
HealthScout – The diagnosis is confirmed by fluorescein angiography . Typically the fluorescein enters into the blister and stains its contents, identifying one or more leakage points. Treatment of Central Serous Retinopathy Although no medication has thus far proved

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Corsicana Daily Sun – Crouch and Alwan will offer services including echocardiography, diagnostic cardiac catheterization, stress testing, Holter monitoring, coronary CT angiography and nuclear cardiology. We are pleased to welcome Drs. Crouch and Alwan to the Clinic

Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD)
WSOC-TV – If a heart problem is suspected, doctors may order a number of tests, like an EKG, exercise stress testing, Holter monitoring, heart MRI, angiography or biopsy of the heart muscle. Unfortunately, many people with ARVD don’t have any symptoms. In fact

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Medscape News – One reason for the misperception that women have “safer” CAD is the fact that more women than men have normal angiography results with chest pain. For typical angina symptoms, up to 90% of men have evidence of CAD on angiography compared with fewer

Fossilized Embryos Seen in Deep Detail
Los Angeles Times – The best analogy is with a medical CT scan” but at 2,000 to 3,000 times the resolution, Donoghue said. “We can see details less than 1,000th of a millimeter.” “We can look at any and every part of the fossil inside and out without harming it

Parsons is in a race for his life
Detroit News – Let’s face it, it was such a surreal feeling sitting there listening to a doctor telling me I have lung cancer,” said Parsons, whose recent CT scan showed a 25-30 percent reduction in the tumor. “I thought, ‘OK, I’ve got it. What am I going to do

Airport Security Goes High-Tech
MSN MoneyCentral – Another post-September 11 security addition is that checked luggage must also go through screening by a computed tomography [CT scan] device, basically a three-dimensional X-ray or a trace test. GE offers products for both operations. Davis says all

Confessions of a Baggage Screener
Wired – The CT scan, a computerized cross-sectional X ray, can map a 3-D image in color. As of now, none of the technologies being used can detect every type of substance, so a machine that can spot explosive chemicals might not find metals or radiological

Who’s who in optical sciences at the UA
Arizona Daily Star – Or, says the 33-year-old native of China, a doctor wearing a 3-D headset could see the real-time images being compiled from a CT scan of a patient’s innards projected on the outside of the body, as though the doctor had X-ray vision.

Stop Brain Bleeding
WFTV – Patients undergo a CT scan within three hours of symptom onset to help determine the source and size of the hemorrhage. Then, the stroke team has an hour to infuse the liquid. One day after treatment, a second CT scan shows the final size of the