July 04BEHOLD COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING aka the CT or CAT scan a technology so revolutionary that it helped earn its inventors a Nobel Prize in 1979.The CT scan does what conventional X-ray technology can’t do: create a 3-D image to provide doctors with a more detailed picture of problems inside the body, from [...]
Feb. 18The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently announced an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from medical imaging and plans to hold public hearings to get input on requirements.The agency said it wants to establish a section on its Web site that will allow patients to track their own medical imaging history and share [...]
Feb. 17Government regulation and oversight of medical radiation have not kept up with its use. As patients get radiation more frequently than before, for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, the need for more stringent industry safeguards is crucial.So it is a welcome development that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced plans to flex [...]
Feb. 14Government regulation and oversight of medical radiation have not kept up with its use. As patients get radiation far more frequently than ever before, for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, the need for more stringent industry safeguards is crucial.So it is a welcome development that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced plans [...]
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Peper Long of FDA, +1-301-796-4671, +1-240-429-9205, mary.long@fda.hhs.govInitiative to focus on 3 types of procedures with high radiation dosesSILVER SPRING, Md., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from three types of medical imaging procedures: computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine studies, [...]
Initiative to focus on 3 types of procedures with high radiation dosesSILVER SPRING, Md., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from three types of medical imaging procedures: computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine studies, and fluoroscopy. These procedures are the greatest contributors to [...]
FDA NEWS RELEASEFDA Unveils Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging Initiative to focus on 3 types of procedures with high radiation dosesThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from three types of medical imaging procedures: computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine studies, and fluoroscopy. These [...]
Summit Medical Group’s Nuclear Medicine Service received approval for re-accreditation by the American College of Radiology (ACR)Berkeley Heights (Vocus) February 2, 2010 Summit Medical Group’s Nuclear Medicine Service received approval for re-accreditation by the American College of Radiology (ACR) for the period of January 2010 through January 2013. Accreditation by the ACR is awarded [...]
