Solid-state X-ray technology allows X-ray scanners to be portable and battery operated, enabling medical staff to check patients in any location.
Furthermore, due to the shortage of experienced spirometry experts in poor areas of developing countries, it’s hard to use PFT to screen asymptomatic patients in regular health examination on a large scale. Consequently, the need to develop new tools for early detection of COPD arises, and ...
Those who were eligible and provided written informed consent were then individually randomised (1 : 1) to either an urgent chest X-ray or usual care (NICE, 2005). Patients were randomised and informed of their allocation before being given a suite of questionnaires to complete (Box 1). The...
Due to the pandemic, wait times for most medical procedures throughout the province may have increased – including for tests such as screening mammograms. At the Toronto Centre for Medical Imaging, our wait times are short for screeningmammogramto accommodate our patients in a timely fashion. Urg...
Artificial-intelligence chest X-ray schemes for children are rare and limited to a single lung disease. We need a powerful system as a diagnostic tool for most common lung diseases in children. To address this, we present a computer-aided diagnostic scheme for the chest X-ray images of ...
Many patients find the procedure unpleasant. Cramping pains, feelings of fullness, urges to defaecate and general discomfort can occur during the procedure. As mentioned, constipation can occur for a few days after the procedure. References
Primary prostate tumors were collected from patients undergoing a prostate tumor biopsy from 2007 to 2009. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients prior to surgery. The studies were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan. 2.4. Cloni...
“Health providers across the US that already use the many Zebra-integrated PACS and worklist systems, will be able to easily deploy our triage solution and improve their patients’ care and outcomes.”
considered only distal forearm considering the increasing number of patients with wrist fracture36; further, it was thought that it would be useful to estimate the shape of the healthy bone to be used as a reduction target when planning fracture treatment or simulating operation for deformed cases...
One hundred and three patients signed the informed consent document, underwent their routine CT scan for medical purposes, and then completed one whole body DXA scan within 48 hours of their CT scan, in the Behavioral Research and Treatment Center at UTMDACC. In addition to the routine CT ...