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IMRIS receives Nasdaq deficiency notice
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image-guided therapy developer IMRIS has received a deficiency notice related to the bid price of its stock from the Nasdaq Stock Market.
April 22, 2015
ARRS: Breast artery calcification predicts coronary calcium
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers have discovered a "striking relationship" between breast artery and coronary artery calcification levels, according to a new study presented at this week's American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Toronto.
April 22, 2015
ARRS: Ungated CT calcium scores downgrade cardiac risk
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ungated CT plus Agatston calcium scoring is sufficient to clarify an individual's cardiac risk, usually reclassifying them downward compared to guidelines that aren't based on imaging exams, researchers reported at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Toronto.
April 22, 2015
Carestream, NY center test CBCT system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health is collaborating with a sports medicine facility in the state of New York to test a 3D conebeam CT (CBCT) scanner it is developing for orthopedic applications.
April 21, 2015
ARRS: Sharing info leads to dramatic CT dose reduction
By Kate Madden Yee
TORONTO - Reducing unnecessary variation in CT radiation dose can be done fairly easily by getting radiology professionals together to share best practices, even across a healthcare system as large as the University of California's, according to a presentation at the annual American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting.
April 21, 2015
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Radiation dose issues climb agenda in Middle East
By Frances Rylands-Monk
New research from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, reveals how the region is targeting ever-optimized dosage in imaging and how dose awareness is becoming of greater importance within the radiological community.
April 21, 2015
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ARRS: Cancer diagnosis leads smokers to quit
By Eric Barnes
Smokers diagnosed with cancer are more likely to quit smoking than other smokers, according to a new study by the American Cancer Society presented at this week's American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting in Toronto.
April 20, 2015
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ARRS: QC system averts CT scanning mishaps
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Mistakes in the use of CT -- such as scanning the wrong patient or body part -- were reduced to zero in a group of more than 36,000 patients following implementation of a new CT quality control (QC) system at a California hospital, according to study featured at this week's American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Toronto.
April 19, 2015
ARRS: Fluid dynamics predict coronary plaques at CT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Australian researchers are using a CT-based technique to analyze blood flow of the coronary arteries in 3D and profile flow changes to predict heart disease, according to a study to be presented at this week's American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Toronto.
April 19, 2015
UC Davis group wins CT lung nodule surveillance grant
By Eric Barnes
Researchers from the University of California, Davis have received $2.3 million to run a new study aimed at improving surveillance practices for patients with small, low-risk lung nodules. The 26-center project will begin June 1.
April 16, 2015
CT technique enables single-kidney GFR calculation
By Eric Barnes
Improvements in CT hardware and software are enabling clinicians to measure glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in a single kidney, an advancement that replaces less accurate options and permits a range of useful new diagnostic tools, according to researchers writing in Radiology.
April 15, 2015
Half of positive SPECT patients negative at CCTA
By Eric Barnes
Nearly half of all patients who test positive on SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging are found to be negative at coronary CT angiography (CCTA), calling into question the routine use of SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, a test that has been a mainstay of the diagnostic workup of patients with a clinical suspicion of coronary artery disease.
April 12, 2015
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