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G-arm medical imaging systems are based on fluoroscopic X-ray and are used for a variety of diagnostic imaging and minimally invasive surgical procedures.The name is derived from the G-shaped arm used to connect two X-ray generators and two X-ray detectors, image intensifiers or digital flat panel detectors, to one another.
Pancake vertebra; Panda sign; Pauwel's angle; Pawnbroker's sign; Pearshaped bladder; Pedicle sign; Pencil Pointing; Pencil-in-cup sign; Peribronchial cuffing; Pericardial fat pad sign; Perkin's line; Phantom calyx sign; Picket fence appearance; Picture framing (radiology) Pie-in-the-sky sign; Piece of Pie sign; Playboy sign; Pneumatosis ...
RadNet was founded in 1981 as a small imaging center in Los Angeles. The nascent company was concerned with providing billing and administrative services to large medical care providers, with the initial RadNet imaging center being located near Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. [2]
Magnetic resonance imaging alias Nuclear magnetic resonance : high strength (0.15 to 1.5 teslas) [4] are used to excite protons that produce the record results (like CT scan). It can show particular tissues more clearly than CT.; [4] video link: Linear accelerator: used in radiotherapy for cancer: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI ...
A Los Angeles County jail in Castaic in 2015. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) A Los Angeles County jail inmate in Castaic this month was grazed by a bullet from a nearby shooting range used by the ...
Los Angeles General Medical Center (also known as LA General and formerly known as Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, County/USC, County General or by the abbreviation LAC+USC) is a 600-bed public teaching hospital located at 2051 Marengo Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and one of the largest academic medical centers in the United States.
At the same time, CT imaging technology progressed rapidly and Genant and Boyd worked with one of EMI's first whole body CT systems in the late 1970s and early 1980s to apply the quantitative CT method to the spine, coining the term "QCT." Genant later published several articles on spinal QCT in the early 1980s with Christopher E. Cann, PhD.
Codfish vertebra refers to the biconcave appearance of the vertebra in sagittal radiographs due to pathological changes, such as demineralisation. [1] [2] [3] Codfish appearance of the vertebra is seen in several conditions such as osteoporosis, steroid or heparin therapy, Cushing syndrome, idiopathic, sickle cell disease, leukemia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and homo-cystinuria. [4]