General

The following hours apply at Auburn Medical Imaging, Burwood Medical Imaging, Campsie Medical Imaging, Norwest Medical Imaging, Pennant Hills medical imaging and Strathfield Medical Imaging.

December Hours
Saturday 23rd Normal operating hours
Monday 24th 8am-4pm
Tuesday 25th Closed
Wednesday 26th Closed
Thursday 27th Normal operating hours
Friday 28th Normal operating hours
Saturday 29th Closed
Monday 31st 8am-4pm
January
Tuesday 1st Closed
Wednesday 2nd Normal operating hours

NOTE: Lakemba Medical Imaging, Rouse Hill Medical Imaging and Specialist Nuclear Medicine will open 8am – 12:30pm on Monday 24th December. 

 

Saturday 8am-12pm at the following locations:

Auburn Medical Imaging

Burwood Medical Imaging

Campsie Medical Imaging 

Norwest Medical Imaging 

Strathfield Medical Imaging

 

 

The Australian Government has introduced new restrictions, limiting MRI scans of the knee for patients aged 50 or over.

From 1st November 2018, patients aged 50 or over, will not qualify for a Medicare rebate for an MRI of the knee, when referred by a GP.

 

Click here for further information.

 

 

A new computer program can analyse images of patients’ lung tumours, specify cancer types, and even identify altered genes driving abnormal cell growth, a new study shows.

Led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine and published online in Nature Medicine, the study found that a type of artificial intelligence (AI), or “machine learning” program, could distinguish with 97 percent accuracy between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma–two lung cancer types that experienced pathologists at times struggle to parse without confirmatory tests.

Is this the way of the future?

To read more about how artificial intelligence may be the way of the future please follow the links below-

MEDICAL NEWS

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180917/Machine-learning-program-could-distinguish-between-two-lung-cancer-types.aspx

SCIENCE DAILY

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180917111642.htm