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Kodak technology to be used at Olympics
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Eastman Kodak Health Imaging will provide a number of its imaging technologies for use at next month's Olympic Games in Athens. The Rochester, NY-based vendor will be installing a PACS and RIS network at the Polyclinic, the primary medical center for the Olympics.
July 13, 2004
California rads nail diagnosis with CT and x-ray
By Brian Casey
If you've been in radiology long enough, chances are you've seen your share of strange cases. But radiologists at a Southern California hospital got a doozy in April, when a construction worker presented with obvious head injuries but no visible sign of their cause.
July 13, 2004
PointDx adds to patent portfolio
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical software developer PointDx has received an additional notice of allowance for its U.S. patent application 09/635,515, entitled "Method and Computer-Implemented Procedure for Creating Electronic, Multimedia Reports."
July 12, 2004
Nailed in the head: X-ray, CT show patient's good luck
By Tracie L. Thompson
When the patient arrived at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, CA, it was clear he'd need more than an x-ray. Plain films were able to answer an immediate question: How many nails had been driven into his head? His physicians then turned to 3D CT images to gauge the extent of the injury and guide treatment.
July 12, 2004
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AuntMinnie.com Virtual Colonoscopy Radiology Insider
By Eric Barnes
Will radiologists and gastroenterologists ever see eye to eye on virtual colonoscopy? Discourse between the two specialties hasn't always been positive. And while gastroenterologists have questioned the accuracy of the virtual exam, radiologists often note that the worst virtual colonoscopy results can be found in gastroenterologist-led studies.
July 11, 2004
iCAD, TeraRecon join forces
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection developer iCAD and 3D software provider TeraRecon have signed a nonexclusive product licensing and distribution agreement.
July 11, 2004
R2 gets FDA nod for lung-nodule CAD
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection developer R2 Technology has received Food and Drug Administration clearance for its ImageChecker CT CAD software. ImageChecker CT was cleared for the detection of solid lung nodules during review of multidetector CT (MDCT) chest exams, according to the Sunnyvale, CA-based vendor.
July 11, 2004
MR colonography finds inflammatory bowel disease in kids
By Eric Barnes
Unprepped MR colonography is a promising new tool for assessing inflammatory bowel diseases in children, offering a number of advantages over conventional colonoscopy, according to radiologists at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in Italy.
July 11, 2004
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Voxar selected for SIGGAR1 VC trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Three-dimensional-software developer Voxar's CT colonography software, Colonscreen, will be used to interpret all virtual colonoscopy studies performed by the Special Interest Group in Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (SIGGAR1) clinical trial in the U.K., according to the Framingham, MA-based firm.
July 7, 2004
Siemens, TechSmith ink partnership
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions and screen-recording software developer TechSmith have signed a multiyear agreement. Under the deal, TechSmith's Camtasia Studio software, which records all activity that appears on a device's monitor, will be embedded on imaging systems such as angiography, colonoscopy, CT, and MR units.
July 7, 2004
Two studies tailor gynecologic imaging, intervention
By Shalmali Pal
Two groups of researchers have recently focused on improving gynecologic imaging as well as intervention. First, investigators from Turkey offer a case report on the multimodality diagnosis of endometrial stromal sarcoma in the myometrium. In the second paper, interventional radiologists discuss a potentially new way to perform nonsurgical fallopian tube occlusion.
July 1, 2004
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Honing MRI, PET/CT protocols for larger patients
By Shalmali Pal
Excess body weight has been linked to a number of serious health complications, such as obesity, Type 2 diabetes, and a menu of cancers. It's a safe bet that imaging specialists are going to have to contend with these heavier patients at some point. Two recent papers focused on the role of weight-related imaging.
June 29, 2004
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