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Management strategies evolve as CT finds more lung nodules
By Eric Barnes
CT's rapidly advancing capabilities, aimed at catching more cancers while they're potentially curable, have been the driving force behind the growth of lung cancer screening trials over the past decade. But what to do with the proliferation of lung nodules? Two thoracic imaging experts discuss the impact of CT's growing screening database, and offer advice on which nodules to biopsy, follow, or even ignore.
August 18, 2005
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Serious extracolonic findings prevalent in screening, symptomatic VC patients
By Eric Barnes
Asymptomatic screening subjects were nearly as likely as symptomatic patients to have extracolonic findings at virtual colonoscopy, radiologists in Italy have reported. The study, in a very mixed population of symptomatic and screening patients, also found a similarly high prevalence of serious extracolonic pathologies between the two groups.
August 16, 2005
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Toshiba nets 64-slice CT deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba Medical Systems reported that it has sold five of its 64-slice Aquilion CT scanners to BMI Healthcare of London.
August 15, 2005
AuntMinnie.com CT Radiology Insider
By Eric Barnes
August 14, 2005
Nebraska launches free CT lung cancer screening
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A statewide consortium in Nebraska said it will soon begin recruiting smokers and former smokers for a statewide lung screening study, with CT scans to be performed annually for five years.
August 14, 2005
SPECT/CT pilots prostate brachytherapy in community setting
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
It can be difficult to adapt a technique that was developed in an academic venue for use in a community hospital environment. However, a group from Aultman Hospital in Ohio has taken a research-based SPECT/CT immunoscintigraphy-guided radiation therapy methodology developed at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and successfully adopted the protocol into its practice.
August 14, 2005
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CT doesn't hurt when evaluating emergency chest pain
By Eric Barnes
Can CT pinpoint the cause of acute chest pain in the emergency room? Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore sought to answer the question by scanning patients who presented to their emergency department with acute chest pain.
August 14, 2005
Cedara releases PET/CT workstation
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Cedara Software unit of Merge Healthcare has released new software for viewing and processing PET/CT images.
August 11, 2005
E-Z-EM joins new Nasdaq index
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Contrast and virtual colonoscopy firm E-Z-EM said it has been chosen to be a founding member of the new Nasdaq Health Care Index.
August 9, 2005
Even in pregnancy, CT rules for ruling out PE
By Eric Barnes
There's no cause for misgivings when CT pulmonary angiography is needed to rule out pulmonary embolism in a pregnant woman. CTPA not only provides the most definitive diagnosis available in such patients, it does so with less radiation than scintigraphy.
August 7, 2005
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Colon CAD: VC's extra eyes face new challenges
By Eric Barnes
Prototype colon CAD systems are proliferating, and thanks to years of painstaking development work they're doing a pretty good job, outperforming all but the best radiologists in the detection of colonic lesions. VC CAD expert Dr. Hiro Yoshida from Harvard Medical School in Boston discusses the major innovations that have produced today's complex CAD systems, and the moving target CAD developers face in keeping up with new performance standards.
August 4, 2005
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Observational EBT study finds estrogen-only HRT slows atherosclerosis
By Shalmali Pal
The onset of menopause has been tied to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but the exact role of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is still a gray area. In a study using electron beam tomography (EBT), investigators from California evaluated the progression of coronary artery calcification (CAC) in relation to HRT in asymptomatic, postmenopausal women.
August 2, 2005
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