Skip to the content

IOP A community website from IOP Publishing

Welcome

Welcome to our new diagnostic imaging community page. Your one-stop source of news, analysis and commentary from the medical imaging community.

For maximum exposure, become a Corporate partner. Contact our sales team.

Buyer’s Guide

Diagnostic imaging

Sponsored by GE Healthcare

Molecular imaging in pre-clinical research enables powerful longitunal studies – which gives more information faster. Get the most out of your pre-clinical research with solutions that include a full line of high-performance imaging systems, site-planning, materials and research support. From the Triumph® Tri-Modality imaging system to the gloves on your hand – GE Pre-Clinical Imaging can help.

Learn more

Research & Innovation News

Study confirms hybrid PET/MR image quality

German study provides further evidence that hybrid PET/MRI systems can offer uncompromised MR image quality.

Ultralow-dose CT enables PET correction

Ultralow-dose CT scans can be used for attenuation correction and respiratory gating of PET scans.

Innovation: patent applications review

Our survey of the latest international patent applications in radiation therapy reviews filings from Accuray, Philips, Xoft and more.

Photoacoustic device sees early metastases

A photoacoustic device can detect individual melanoma cells circulating in the blood stream.

Opinion

MRI safety: accidents are not inevitable

With MRI accidents on the increase, what's really needed is a uniform set of MRI safety standards that apply to all providers and which are enforced. Tobias Gilk explains.

SPECT offers big benefits for imaging small animals

Video report: Freek Beekman describes how high-resolution SPECT systems play an invaluable role in small-animal imaging.

Image guidance: the way forward for radiotherapy

Video report: Uwe Oelfke explains how image guidance can address the challenges of motion during radiotherapy.

The low-down on molecular imaging

Video report: Simon Cherry discusses recent progress in molecular imaging and examines how these techniques are increasingly being translated to the clinic.