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News Bags are scanned from four angles to produce detailed double X-ray images.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Airport operator BAA confirmed it had now installed the advanced threat identification X-ray scanners at its seven airports, including Gatwick... [09 Jul 2008]
Photos: 60 years of NHS tech
Photo Pictured here is the Imtran (Image Transfer) telephone system used to send X-ray and scan images for second opinions. The system used a camera which converted images into audio tones to be sent over the telephone network. [09 Jul 2008]
InfoVista Service Level Management Answers Radiology Department's Communications Needs
White Paper The Radiology department of a major hospital needs to implement a network-based X-ray Diagnostic Imaging System that delivers X-ray images within a 10-second response time. Through InfoVista's comprehensive reports, the staff discovered that... [03 Jul 2008]
X-Ray Inspection: How It Works
White Paper X-ray inspection systems display gray-scale images, which represent variances in the shape and thickness of an object. High-density features produce a darker image than those do with lesser density or thickness. [03 Jul 2008]
Qinetiq Case Study: Travelling in Safety
White Paper This system imposes realistic images of fictitious threats on to X-ray images of genuine passengers' bags. Passenger screening at airports is one of the most effective ways of preventing weapons and explosives getting on to aircraft, but the task... [03 Jul 2008]
Google looks to the cloud to woo business
News While chief software architect Ray Ozzie may worry most about open source, Google's larger ambitions are clearly on his mind. He cited Picasa, Google's photo site, which handles seven million images per day. [11 Jun 2008]
Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo The WorldWide Telescope is a rich web application that accesses high-resolution images taken by ground- and Earth-orbiting telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center and the Spitzer Space Telescope. [19 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up The program seamlessly stitches together incredible images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and other telescopes so profoundly huge they have a noticeable effect on global tidal... [16 May 2008]
Microsoft users surf the skies from the web
News The program, which was developed by Microsoft's research arm, marries together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others. Roy Gould, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian... [14 May 2008]
Caring for Patient Information: Using a New Approach to Simplify Medical Image Management, Reduce Storage Costs and Accommodate Growth
White Paper Healthcare organizations need new strategies for managing patient information, especially film media, such as MRI and X-ray images. Analyzing retrieval patterns for medical images provides valuable insight into the who, where and how often of... [10 Apr 2008]
Storage Resource Broker (SRB) Integrated With the Sun StorageTek 5800 System
White Paper Integration with the Sun StorageTek 5800 system provides SRB the ability to store objects in a new category of storage system optimized to store large amounts of digital content, such as x-ray scans, photographs, images, research data sets... [28 Mar 2008]
Vital Images Solution Costs Less Than Traditional Medical Tests, Helps Save More Lives
White Paper Among the many high-tech tools that are changing medicine today is an advanced imaging solution from a company called Vital Images, based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, that gives doctors the equivalent of Superman's x-ray vision: without exploratory... [28 Feb 2008]
Fuzzy logic tech project to help the elderly
News X is for X-ray The tech avoids the use of cameras so as not to intrude on people's everyday lives, relying on silhouette images and audio information. Fuzzy logic uses computational mathematics to reach conclusions based on vague information... [03 Jan 2008]
NHS completes Pacs digital x-ray project
News The NHS has completed a project to rollout digital x-ray and scanning technology to health trusts across England as part of the £12.4bn national NHS IT programme. More than 473 million images have been stored using the technology, which cuts the... [27 Dec 2007]
Photos: The super 3D body scanner
Photo The scan is also much quicker than conventional CT scans, as the machine's X-ray emitting gantry - the giant ring-shaped part that surrounds the patient - can rotate four times in a single second, which is 22 per cent faster than current systems... [04 Dec 2007]
