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Jackson Memorial is the centerpiece of the Jackson Health System, owned and operated by Miami-Dade County through the Public Health Trust. The hospital is supported by Miami-Dade County residents through a half-cent sales tax. In 2014, the Public Health Trust received $364 million in unrestricted funds from Miami-Dade County.
Positron emission tomography–computed tomography (better known as PET-CT or PET/CT) is a nuclear medicine technique which combines, in a single gantry, a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner and an x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner, to acquire sequential images from both devices in the same session, which are combined into a single superposed (co-registered) image.
PET-MRI systems don't offer a direct way to obtain attenuation maps, unlike stand-alone PET or PET-CT systems. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Stand alone PET systems' attenuation correction (AC) is based on a transmission scan (mu - map) acquired using a 68 Ge ( Germanium-68 ) rotating rod source, which directly measures photon attenuation at 511 keV.
Positron emission tomography (PET) [1] is a functional imaging technique that uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes, and in other physiological activities including blood flow, regional chemical composition, and absorption.
The Haitian-American OB-GYN has helped hundreds of mothers give birth, many at North Shore Medical Center, a North Miami-Dade hospital that for decades has provided medical care to the surrounding ...
The hospital has more than 400 medical staff and over 700 employees. The hospital serves over 80,000 patients annually. North Shore Medical Center is Florida's first Joint Commission (JCAHO)-accredited chest pain center as well as the first thrombectomy-capable stroke center in Miami Dade. The hospital is also fully accredited by the JCAHO, the ...
Mount Sinai Medical Center is a hospital located at 4300 Alton Road in Miami Beach, Florida, and is the largest private, independent not-for-profit teaching hospital in Florida. The institution was incorporated on March 11, 1946, and opened on its current location on December 4, 1949.
A fisherman was airlifted to a Miami-Dade County hospital Sunday evening after a shark he caught bit him as he tried to remove the hook from its mouth, according to state wildlife police.