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Retired X-ray systems brought back into operation during the pandemic 

 2021-02-22

Good teamwork and high system quality enabled Karolinska University Hospital and Siemens Healthineers to bring four decades-old mobile X-ray systems back into operation to provide lung imaging during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How can healthcare providers continue to offer high-value care in the midst of a pandemic?

 2021-02-22

Zwanger-Pesiri, NY's largest radiology What lessons can be learned from their example?

Transforming Care Delivery
Gerhard Simon, MD, a radiologist and nuclear medicine physician, engaged a radiology technologist from Siemens Healthineers.
Support at the right moment

 2021-02-16

In response to the pressures of finding sufficient radiology technologists, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Hospital, Germany, engaged a technologist from Siemens Healthineers in early March 2020. Gerhard Simon, MD, a radiologist and nuclear medicine physician, believes that this was absolutely the right decision, especially given the COVID-19 pandemic. However, he says that the long-term solution has to be about encouraging more young people to become technologists.

The future of robotics in healthcare

 2021-01-27

When we think of robots assisting in surgical procedures, it still sounds quite futuristic. But to what extent does this remain science fiction and what is today’s reality? Listen to a pioneer in telerobotic interventions, Tejas Patel Chairman and Chief Interventional Cardiologist at Apex Heart Institute in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

This video shows the development of the first 4D CT sequence that adapts to the patient’s breathing in real time.

A sharper focus in radiation therapy planning

 2021-01-18

Internal movement such as breathing presents a major challenge in tumor imaging. Motion artifacts in clinical images can cause difficulties when planning radiotherapy. Watch the video to see how a new intelligent 4D CT algorithm makes it now possible to reduce these artifacts substantially for more precise radiotherapy planning.