The first MR guided breast biopsy in India : Dr. A. Jena, Chief of MRI, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre and Dr. Sangeeta Taneja, Radiologist, MRI Department, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre

[This article was published in the February 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research center, India has taken yet another quantum leap by conducting the first MR guided breast biopsy on 15 December 2008 in the country.

Advances in Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine

[This article was published in the December 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Nuclear medicine is a branch of medicine and medical imaging that uses the nuclear properties of matter in diagnosis and therapy

GE Healthcare, Varian to collaborate on MRI system

GE Healthcare and Varian, Inc. announced that they will begin a collaboration to develop a new pre-clinical 7T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system.

Siemens launches South Asia’s most compact 3 Tesla MRI

Magnetom Verio, a worldwide innovation on the MRI high-field market that optimizes parallel imaging, improves visualization and allows exceptional patient comfort.

Bangkok Hospital Medical Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Bangkok Hospital Medical Centre (BMC) is one of the most technologically sophisticated hospitals in the world today.

Health without frontiers : K. Srikanth, Co-founder, COO, Prognosys Medical Systems Pvt. Ltd. & V. Krishna Prasad, Co-founder, President, Prognosis Medical Systems

[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Telemedicine is defined as the use of electronic Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants.

GE Healthcare to supply MRI technology at the Olympic Games

GE Healthcare a division of General Electric, announced its role as the sole supplier of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Installed at the Olympic Village General Hospital, two of GE Healthcare’s advanced MRI technologies, the Signa HDe 1.5T will be accessible to be used on all international competing athletes during the Games.

Bumrungrad International, Bangkok, Thailand

[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Bumrungrad International is a globally recognised and accredited, multi-speciality hospital located in the heart of Bangkok. Founded in 1980, Bumrungrad is the largest private hospital in South-East Asia, with 554 beds and over 30 speciality centers. The hospital offers state-of-the-art diagnostic, therapeutic and intensive care facilities, working as a holistic one-stop medical centre.

Wipro GE Healthcare expects INR 800 crore revenues from project

The Indian sales and marketing arm of GE Healthcare, the world

Philips, Artemis tie up for research in diagnostic devices trials

The firms plan on using advanced technologies to find cheaper ways to discover blockages in the heart, tumours

Mobile MRI will deliver service to rural patients

Soon US$ 4.5-million MRI machine will roll out in the Aspen and East Central Health regions to bring health scans in rural residents.

Sound with a Sight TECHNOLOGY TRENDS – Ultrasound in Medical Imaging

[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Being one of the most widely used diagnostic tools in modern medicine, ultrasound-based electronic devices are increasingly used to harmlessly reveal the inner structure of human body. The technique, widely known as �ultrasonography� provides high quality visualisation of muscles, tendons, and internal organs, their size, structure and any pathological lesions with real time tomographic images.

Telemedicine: boon for rural India

The telemedicine network becomes essential as in most cases reading the scans can be confusing. Telemedicine also helps make up for the poor health infrastructure in this large disparately growing country.