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Radiation exposure linked to illness, not socioeconomic class
By James Brice
Individual medical histories affect how much ionizing radiation poor people accumulate from medical imaging more than their socioeconomic status, according to a mammoth study of poverty and medical practice performed at New York City's Montefiore Medical Center.
February 16, 2011
MDDX debuts image transmission software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging software developer MDDX has released its Moving Pictures image communication software package.
February 15, 2011
320-row perfusion CT finds malignant lung nodules
By Eric Barnes
Owing to its high resolution and wide anatomic coverage, dynamic first-pass perfusion 320-detector-row CT outperforms PET/CT for distinguishing benign from malignant lung nodules, researchers from Japan report in Radiology.
February 15, 2011
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Canada investigates 'unqualified' radiologists
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Two radiologists in British Columbia, Canada, are being investigated for reading CT and ultrasound scans without appropriate credentials or experience, in a case that may affect more than 3,000 patients.
February 13, 2011
AngioDynamics expands product line
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology developer AngioDynamics has added a new Morpheus Smart peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) bedside insertion kit and a new 5-French dual-lumen PICC to its product line.
February 13, 2011
Image Gently launches fluoro campaign on 3rd anniversary
By Cynthia E. Keen
Image Gently's new campaign to reduce patient exposure to radiation dose during diagnostic fluoroscopy procedures represents a new milestone for the initiative, which in just three years has made major strides in raising radiation dose awareness among both patients and healthcare providers.
February 13, 2011
Toshiba installs Aquilion One with Dose Check
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems has placed the first Aquilion One CT system that includes its Dose Check software.
February 13, 2011
CT screening study tracks reader agreement in nodule follow-up
By Eric Barnes
A study based on National Lung Screening Trial data found that agreement between readers on nodule growth and screening results at follow-up was acceptable, but it could be better, according to researchers from the University of Alabama and several other U.S. centers.
February 13, 2011
CAD helps expert radiologists detect difficult polyps on VC
By Erik L. Ridley
Computer-aided detection (CAD) software can boost the performance of even expert radiologists in finding challenging polyps on virtual colonoscopy studies, say researchers from the University of Chicago.
February 13, 2011
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VC reading is faster with 'panoramic view' software
By Eric Barnes
Virtual colonoscopy studies can be read nearly twice as fast using an advanced panoramic view technique compared to conventional 3D endoscopic views, according to researchers at the Medical University of Vienna.
February 10, 2011
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ACR issues criteria for suspected victims of child abuse
By Cynthia E. Keen
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has released an updated set of appropriateness criteria on a troubling topic -- imaging procedures for children suspected of being abused. The guidelines were published in the February Journal of the American College of Radiology.
February 10, 2011
AuntMinnie.com Virtual Colonoscopy Insider
By Eric Barnes
February 9, 2011
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