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Personalized breast screening | CCTA for stable angina | Building a better PACS workstation
By Erik L. Ridley
February 15, 2016
Clear Guide lands FDA nod for ultrasound/CT fusion unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Johns Hopkins University spin-off Clear Guide Medical has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Scenergy ultrasound/CT fusion and image guidance technology.
February 15, 2016
CCTA a good choice for patients with stable angina
By Eric Barnes
The routine use of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) rather than nuclear cardiac scans for the initial evaluation of patients with stable chest pain is "reasonable," concludes a just-published analysis of two large studies in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
February 15, 2016
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How safe is image-guided liver biopsy? | Expanding CT lung screening | PET for Alzheimer's
By Brian Casey
February 10, 2016
Guerbet lands FDA nod for contrast injector
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Contrast agent manufacturer Guerbet has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its OptiOne single-head CT contrast delivery system.
February 10, 2016
Mass. jury says Marlboro smokers don't need screening
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris USA is not obligated to pay for annual low-dose lung cancer CT screening for healthy smokers of Marlboro cigarettes, a Massachusetts federal jury decided on Wednesday, according to an article on Law360.
February 10, 2016
Radiologists prefer optical colonoscopy over CTC
By Eric Barnes
Citing the certainty provided by conventional optical colonoscopy results, a majority of radiologists would choose it over CT colonography (CTC) for their own colorectal cancer screening, according to the results of a small survey reported in the February American Journal of Roentgenology.
February 10, 2016
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Finnish imaging center to test Carestream CBCT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
HUS Medical Imaging Center, based in Helsinki, is launching the first European clinical test study of Carestream Health's work-in-progress conebeam CT (CBCT) scanner.
February 9, 2016
Smokers ineligible for screening have same lung cancer rate
By Eric Barnes
Long-term smokers who are at high risk for lung cancer but don't qualify for CT screening under the strict guidelines of the National Lung Screening Trial nevertheless have the same rate of cancers as those who do qualify, concludes a study in the February Journal of the American College of Radiology.
February 9, 2016
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Article blasts LNT theory of radiation harm
By Eric Barnes
An article in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology calls for the abandonment of the linear no-threshold (LNT) model, which holds that even low levels of radiation -- similar to those used in medical imaging -- can be harmful.
February 4, 2016
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Extracolonic findings on CTC are rare but often important
By Eric Barnes
Extracolonic findings are relatively uncommon in CT colonography (CTC) screening, but the few that require follow-up tend to be highly significant to the patient's health, according to a new report in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
January 31, 2016
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More former smokers should get CT lung screening
By Eric Barnes
Low-dose CT lung cancer screening should be expanded to include smokers who gave up the habit long ago, concludes a new study published in the February issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
January 27, 2016
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