By Ted Lucidi, CBET In the past, health care facilities used terms such as biomedical engineering and clinical engineering. These, once small, departments have evolved and now can span entir... Read more

By Ted Lucidi, CBET You may be surprised to learn that many of the probes evaluated at our Ultrasound Center of Excellent have failed as a result of damage that may be considered fully preve... Read more

By Ted Lucidi, CBET It can be trying for both end-users as well as service engineers when a product, sent-in for repair of a specific issue, is found to have no problems whatsoever. Repair p... Read more

By Matt Tomory Significant advancements have occurred in transducer technology in the past few years … Single-crystal technology, CMUT, matrix array technology and wireless probes. Even thou... Read more

By Ted Lucidi, CBET Do you know what’s NOT covered under warranty and contract on your MRI? More importantly, do you know how you’ll address it? Warranties and service contracts provide us w... Read more

By Ted Lucidi Our last two columns have provided some technical information on the differences between traditional ultrasound probes and newer live-3D volumetric probes, specifically cardiac... Read more

By Ted Lucidi Last month’s column focused on the technological differences between traditional ultrasound probes and newer live-3D volumetric probes. Even though we highlighted some of the d... Read more

By Ted Lucidi I trust that if you, or your team, supports the ultrasound modality in any way, that you have at least heard of the Philips X5-1 transducer. In my opinion, it’s THE transducer... Read more

By Matt Tomory Ultrasound transducers are highly complex, Class ll medical devices that we see all the time on television, in health care facilities and even throughout this and other period... Read more

By Ted Lucidi, CBET Last month’s article focused on strategies that HTM professionals could use to extend the lifecycle of their MRI coils. This month, the focus is on end-user contributions... Read more