X-ray
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. The Picture Archiving and Communication... [27 Dec 2007]
Digital X-ray plan hits halfway in London and south
News Half of hospitals in London and the south of England have now been equipped with new digital X-ray systems. Pacs allows X-rays and scans to be stored electronically and viewed on... [09 Aug 2006]
Interactive Tools for Virtual X-Ray Vision in Mobile Augmented Reality
White Paper This paper presents a set of interactive tools designed to give users Virtual X-Ray vision. These tools address a common problem in depicting occluded infrastructure: either too much information is... [03 Sep 2007]
High-Performance Computing: Application to Ab-Initio Simulations of X-Ray Absorption Spectra From Nanoparticles
White Paper The application of LASC to ab-initio simulations of x-ray absorption spectra from nanoparticles is considered as a particular case. High-Performance Computing (HPC) is associated with the use of high-end... [22 Oct 2008]
NHS inks digital X-ray deals
News The NHS said that in time, nearly all images used in the NHS in England such as X-rays and scans will be stored, transmitted and viewed digitally: "Just as most households are abandoning the use of 'wet film' and moving... [08 Sep 2005]
GE hails X-ray breakthrough
News The health specialists, part of General Electric, said it has developed a way of combining X-rays and radioactive tracers injected into the body. Known as functional anatomic mapping, the technique merges two... [08 Jun 1999]
Body scanners to check UK rail passengers for bombs
News Airport-style scanning technology and x-ray machines could be introduced across the UK mainline rail network in an attempt to reduce the risk of terrorist attacks on the transport network. The first... [31 Oct 2005]
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... [14 May 2008]
Super scanners at UK airports
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... [09 Jul 2008]
Photos: First look at Microsoft's NHS software
Photo Pictured is an X-ray of a bunion on the top half of the screen and on the lower half there are a selection of 'care pathways'. The care pathways are basically segmented to-do lists reminding the... [08 Mar 2007]
Home care moves into the 21st century
News In other news, the Department of Health (DoH) announced earlier this week that London's 21 NHS hospital trusts have completed the rollout of a digital X-ray system. The Picture Archiving and... [23 May 2007]
The A to Z of biometrics
News X is for X-ray X is for X-ray X is for X-ray X is for... [20 Jul 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.10.04
Round-Up Cue all sorts of 'X-ray vision' comments. The X-Ray vision camera phone can take pictures through clothing. soz, but ur son hs bn xpelled :-( atb the Hdmastr News... [29 Oct 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment For my young mind it was the magic of dreams: a submarine powered by a force as powerful as the sun, X-ray vision, an invisible man, and machines much smarter than mankind. So how about... [28 Aug 2008]
HP Technology Helps Cerner Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry
White Paper Kansas City-based Cerner Corporation's passion for healthcare - its sole focus since its founding in 1979 - is driven by its large number of staff members who came from the healthcare industry, including physicians, nurses, med techs and... [28 Jul 2006]