For budget-conscious healthcare providers, preowned medical imaging and treatment devices may be an alternative to new systems. However, some refrain from buying used systems – they have heard too many tales of poor quality and unsafe or ineffi cient equipment. Based on the recently published Green Paper on Good Refurbishment Practice, reluctant procurement managers may reconsider their opinions.

By Doris Pischitz, MA

Cardiac diagnostics have reached a turning point. Coronary computed tomography angiography increasingly replaces cardiac catheterization, while cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging tends to replace stress-echocardiography and myocardial scintigraphy. What needs to be decided is the place the two modalities occupy in the clinical decision process.

By Hildegard Kaulen, PhD

Taking on the AXIOM Luminos dRF fluoroscopy and radiography system was a huge leap forward for the Department of Medical Imaging at the Hospital Oost-Limburg in the Belgian Genk. After six months of operation, substantial workflow improvements have proven the high capabilities of the two-in-one solution.

By Rita Wellens, PhD

Munich, Germany, and Chattanooga, TN, USA, are not necessarily two cities you would mention in the same breath. Separated by language, culture, and some 5,000 miles, the two do, however, share a proximity to mountains and beautiful scenery, as well as a strong regional identity – and most recently, doctors in both places felt a need for enhanced imaging technology.

By Rosemarie E. Overstreet