Sponsored by Innovatus Imaging By Matt Tomory In uncertain times, it’s easy to hunker down and hold tightly to what you have. After all, there is nothing we can do about current and future c... Read more

By Matt Tomory “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost As I reflect on the synergy of our FDA re... Read more

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