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FDA clears Zetta's CT dose management software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Z-Dose29 CT dose management software from Zetta Medical Technologies.
May 11, 2017
Carestream adds imaging analytics to clinical software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health plans to highlight new imaging analytics tools it has added to its Clinical Collaboration Platform at the upcoming Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine conference in Pittsburgh.
May 10, 2017
Deep learning for lung cancer advances goals
By Eric Barnes
SAN JOSE, CA - Deep-learning algorithms based on convolutional neural networks are advancing a number of cherished goals in lung cancer analysis that will soon help patients live longer -- and even predict how long they might expect to live, according to a May 10 talk at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference.
May 10, 2017
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Chinese team wins machine-learning competition
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Two researchers from China with no formal medical background were the winners of this year's Data Science Bowl, a competition held by consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and data science community Kaggle to facilitate the development of machine-learning algorithms through crowdsourcing.
May 10, 2017
GE reaches development milestone in Check-Cap deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has successfully completed the initial development milestone in its collaboration to manufacture miniature x-ray sources for colon capsule developer Check-Cap.
May 8, 2017
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FDA OKs CurveBeam's conebeam CT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
CurveBeam has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for InReach, a conebeam CT imaging system primarily designed for the hand, wrist, and elbow, and lower extremities in nonweight-bearing positions.
May 8, 2017
Groups join forces to reduce pediatric cardiac dose
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Image Gently Alliance has joined with a coalition of academic pediatric and cardiology organizations to raise awareness about the need to reduce radiation dose in pediatric heart imaging studies.
May 7, 2017
Ottawa Hospital slashes lung cancer treatment time
By Louise Gagnon
What's the best way to reduce time to treatment for patients with abnormal CT scans who are referred for suspected lung cancer? The radiology department at a Canadian hospital was able to cut the time to treatment in half for referred patients, according to a presentation at last month's Canadian Association of Radiologists meeting in Montreal.
May 7, 2017
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Diagnostic reference levels reduce CT doses
By Eric Barnes
Establishing diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) for radiation dose is a powerful tool for reducing radiation exposure in CT, according to a study by Canadian researchers published in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
May 4, 2017
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ARRS: Do NLST results translate to the real world?
By Kate Madden Yee
NEW ORLEANS - When the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) in 2011 reported a 20% lung cancer mortality reduction for high-risk smokers who were screened annually with low-dose CT, professional organizations lined up behind CT lung screening. But does the patient population studied in the NLST reflect the real world?
May 3, 2017
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GE gets FDA nod for Visipaque CCTA indication
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for a new indication for its Visipaque contrast agent.
May 1, 2017
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Photon-counting breast CT shows promise
By Eric Barnes
Tests of a prototype photon-counting detector breast CT scanner show that the system could be useful as an adjunct to low-dose breast CT by separating the energy levels of different types of materials within the breast to assess tissue composition and improve cancer diagnosis.
April 26, 2017
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