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Intensive care patients with head injuries depend on fast, reliable imaging results. The conventional way involves transporting patients from the ICU to the radiology department. Imaging with mobile head CT scanners directly at the patient’s bedside reverses the process.

Our new column “Point of View” picks up trends and developments in healthcare. In this edition, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marcus Hacker comments on the potential of AI in molecular imaging.

Every 2 seconds, someone in the world has a stroke. It might cause irreversible harm if treatment won’t come quickly enough. The faster a patient is treated, the more likely he is to recover without permanent disability.

Find out how Emily Sedgwick, MD, and her team significantly improved the patient experience at Houston´s Baylor Clinic.

A team of radiologists and IT experts at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, are working with Siemens Healthineers to develop AI solutions for the hospitals of tomorrow. The idea is to use algorithms throughout the clinical diagnostic process – and enable diagnostics to keep up with the constantly growing demands it is facing.

With precise imaging of even the smallest structures in the human brain, clinical utilization of ultra-high field MRI has opened up new opportunities to support physicians in the early diagnosis and personalized therapy of neurological diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy, and Parkinson’s.