Draft Guidance for Marketing Clearance of Diagnostic Ultrasound Systems and Transducers G. Wayne Moore, B.Sc., MBA, FASE 10/10/17 Inertia is a tough customer. I learned this lesson almost 15 years ago when we had our first paper on transducer degradation and the effect of dead elements on image quality published in the Journal of Diagnostic … Continue reading
The 2017 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium G. Wayne Moore, B.Sc., MBA, FASE 9/12/17 I am writing a short overview of one of my favorite meetings to attend – the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. If you are an ultrasound technology geek this is the place to be. This year’s meeting was in Washington D.C. and was very well … Continue reading
In case you missed the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine webinar featuring Acertara’s Jim Gessert and Nick Ellens, check out the YouTube below from the AIUM channel. “In this video, James Gessert, BSc Physics, BSEE and Nicholas Ellens, PhD, discuss the measurement process and issues associated with determining the acoustic parameters (MI/TI) displayed on diagnostic … Continue reading
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
