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MITA issues paper on XR-29 compliance
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) has issued a white paper designed to help healthcare facilities that operate CT scanners achieve compliance with the XR-29 radiation dose reduction standard, also known as MITA Smart Dose CT.
May 31, 2015
Toshiba unveils new CT radiation dose program
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems has unveiled a new program designed to make it easier for its CT customers to reduce radiation dose, improve the performance of their CT scanners, and achieve compliance with the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) Smart Dose standard, also known as XR-29.
May 31, 2015
Medic Vision adds dose reporting
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image reconstruction software developer Medic Vision Imaging Solutions has added a radiation dose reporting capability to its SafeCT dose monitoring software.
May 31, 2015
HeartFlow promotes FFR study at EuroPCR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardiac software developer HeartFlow is promoting a study at this week's EuroPCR 2015 meeting in Paris on the use of its fractional flow reserve (FFR) CT analysis software to assess the severity of coronary artery stenosis.
May 20, 2015
IMRIS executives leave
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image-guided therapy developer IMRIS said that Mike Fritts, executive vice president of global customer service, and Mark Reade, executive vice president of global sales, are no longer with the company.
May 18, 2015
Smoking tied to cancer recurrence in survivors
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Continued smoking after treatment for lung cancer is a significant predictor of cancer recurrence, concludes a new study presented at this week's American Thoracic Society meeting in Denver.
May 18, 2015
Genetic info improves smokers' CT screening compliance
By Eric Barnes
Adding genetic information to the cancer risk profiles of current and former smokers reclassifies their risk in more than 25% of cases, according to a study to be presented at the American Thoracic Society meeting in Denver.
May 17, 2015
ACR debuts CT lung cancer screening education program
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has launched a comprehensive online education program to train radiologists in implementing a CT lung cancer screening program.
May 14, 2015
Analysis: CT lung cancer screening won't break the bank
By Eric Barnes
The costs of population-wide CT lung cancer screening are likely to be reasonable and comparable to the costs of breast or colon cancer screening, according to an article in the May edition of Thoracic Surgery Clinics.
May 14, 2015
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FDA OKs software upgrades to Toshiba's Aquilion One
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for a new package of detector and software enhancements to its Aquilion One family of CT systems.
May 11, 2015
Family wins $21M in damages following CT mix-up
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A Michigan jury has awarded the family of an 81-year-old woman $21 million in damages after staff at a Michigan hospital mixed up her CT scan results with those of another patient and operated on her brain instead of her jaw, according to the Detroit Free Press.
May 10, 2015
NCI awards $2.9M for breast CT study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded a $2.9 million research grant to the University of California, Davis for the development of CT to detect breast cancer.
May 10, 2015
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