Options for MRI Service and Maintenance Bruce Smith, President Medical Systems Technologies If you are reading this there is a good chance you know Acertara for ultrasound and ultrasound probe expertise, test equipment and repair. Did you know the same opportunities for repair exist for MRI? Parts, part repair and independent service are available … Continue reading
Wayne Moore, B.Sc., MBA, FASE 8/8/17 “We found the problem, it’s going to be ok”. When a mom, siting alone in a hospital waiting room, stressing over why their beautiful child is having severe abdominal pain, with a million things going through their mind – all of them bad, those words “it’s going to … Continue reading
The Two-Edged Sword of Social Media Wayne Moore, B.Sc., MBA, FASE 7/11/17 I have never met anyone with a social media strategy that featured ultimate failure as the end-game. So, I asked myself why there were so many good examples of bad examples of social media (SM) implementations. To be clear, I’m speaking about … Continue reading
The Acertara Journey Wayne Moore, B.Sc., MBA, FASE 6/13/17 Starting and growing a company can often distort time. With your head so focused on the development phase of the journey it is easy to lose a sense of other things around you that are not evolving at the same rate of speed; in a sense … Continue reading
A Zero-Sum Game? Wayne Moore, B.Sc., MBA, FASE May 9, 2017 Zero-sum can best be described as a condition in game theory (which if you have some free reading time I suggest you read about game theory, it is a really interesting subject) in which one person’s gain is equivalent to another’s loss, so the … Continue reading
Spatial Distortion and 3D Volumetric Ultrasound Imaging Wayne Moore, B.Sc., MBA, FASE April 11, 2017 In spite of all the amazing new image processing algorithms and mind-numbingly fast electronics there still remains a significant challenge in clearing up one form of spatial image distortion that persists in current ultrasound images – specifically, the correct positions … Continue reading
Current Status – 2017 Wayne Moore, B.Sc., MBA, FASE March 14, 2017 Before going into detail in this month’s article on deep learning I want to take a minute to recognize Moore’s Law (note: not Wayne Moore, rather Gordon Moore, circa 1970). What Moore’s law says is that the number of transistors that can be … Continue reading
G. Wayne Moore, B.Sc., MBA, FASE December 13, 2016 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA): My first RSNA was in 1986 (see photo to the right). MRI was still in its infancy, and ultrasound technology was just becoming digital; producing images that were almost recognizable. All imaging technologies were enhanced by significant advances in image … Continue reading
G. Wayne Moore 11/8/16 0.005%: Data mining in a flawed tunnel and then announcing a conclusion based on flawed data is not a compelling way to make a point. During the recent FDA Docket workshop on 3rd Party Repair the attendees, of which I was one, were treated to an amazingly dubious finding based on … Continue reading
G. Wayne Moore, B.Sc., MBA, FASE October 11, 2016 Rumors are unverified information statements that people circulate to make sense of an unclear situation or to deal with a possible threat. Rumors are about issues or situations of topical interest. Rumors are like news except that news is accompanied by solid evidence; rumor is not. … Continue reading
