As the year comes to a close and everyone gears up for the new one, we know that often means making new budget plans and investigating your next capital equipment purchases. To assist you, we’re compiling a few of the best imaging equipment articles into lists by modality. To start things off, here are the top C-Arm machine articles to help you make future plans regarding all things C-Arm:

The best imaging equipment maintenance tip we can give you is regular preventative maintenance. You're probably thinking, “Coming from a service company, they’ll play it off like the world would stop spinning if I missed a PM”. We won’t go that far, but we do want to give you a deeper look at why service companies and engineers so strongly advocate consistently scheduled preventative maintenances.

Refurbished CT scanners carry compelling price tags, especially when compared to the cost of brand-new equipment.

As a refurbished imaging equipment company, we spend a lot of money on the RSNA annual meeting in Chicago. It represents the most substantial marketing expense we have each year. Many people are wowed and impressed by the booth and the team we have present every year.

 Watch the video below to see the flexibility of the GE XRD Digital rad room demonstrated in one of the staging bays at our Holt, Michigan refurbishment facility.

“Computer-aided detection,” with a name like that, what’s not to love? Everyone can use a helping hand from time-to-time, right? Of course, but is CAD the best kind of help? Opinions among Mammography experts differ.

Although Hurricane Sandy seems to be slipping off the front pages and opening reels of major news outlets, recovery from the storm is still very much a work in progress. Documentation, formalities, red tape; there are a lot of hoops to jump through and only so much time in each day to jump through them.
 

Here to Help 

Block Imaging wants all our industry colleagues in the Northeast to know that we can offer a way to help expedite the process and alleviate at least a portion of your frustration.
 

Working with Insurers

Many of you will be working with your insurers to recuperate from equipment damage. Before the amount of a payout is settled, you’ll often need to provide up-to-date assessments of the equipment being covered. Block Imaging is here to help on that front with basic fair market valuations at no cost (formal valuations available for a small fee). Our team knows and understands the secondary market as well as any and is happy to assist with this logistical step to get your facility back in action as quickly as possible.

CT scanner phraseology is the focus of this week's installment of our ongoing series. Dig into the following and expand your radiology vocabulary!

You’ve bought an expensive, top of the line wireless DR plate (digital radiography). It’s only been out of the box for two days when your lead tech, who is used to working with inexpensive CR plates, drops it. Do you have DR plate drop coverage?

Sorting through the GE cath lab product line for the best system to meet your hospital or imaging center’s needs can involve a great deal of research and communication. If you’ve managed to narrow the field to “the one”, congratulations! But now is hardly the time to rest on your laurels. Planning for cath lab equipment installation takes longer than you might think.  A host of cabinets, workstations, tables, and arms will eventually be on their way to your facility and, in truth, the decision-making has only just begun. The next choices you make will help balance both optimum workflow and a logical cath lab networking layout for your OR.

The FDA auditor is in your office, ready to inspect your imaging equipment, when you hear him say, “Can I see a copy of the 2579 form that was filed for this equipment?” Panic sets in because either you have no idea what he is talking about (click here if you don’t) or you have no idea where it is. Don’t worry, there are a couple of things you can do to locate this form:

This week, we’ll be continuing our journey into the wilds of the imaging lexicon with common mammography acronyms and phrases.

See a virtual tour of Block Imaging's refurbished imaging equipment facilities in Holt, Michigan. State-of-the-art staging bays, qualified engineers, equipment testing, and calibration to OEM specification ensure refurbished imaging equipment you can be proud of.

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When our sales staff talks to cath lab customers about “refurbished cath labs” the ambiguity of the phrase frequently comes to light. There are a number of imaging equipment vendors who offer refurbished systems, but many of them don’t really discuss what they do when they refurbish a cath lab.

Welcome to the first installment of our Alphabet Soup series! We'll kick things off by demystifying some of the acronyms and abbreviations that make up the shorthand of bone densitometry.