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Beyond images: futuristic lung atlas created with CT

Forget about suspicious nodular opacities. A team of radiologists, pulmonologists and bioengineers are going beyond CT images to create a virtually perfect model of lung morphology and function. The five-year, $7 million research effort is being funded by the National Institute of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

November 20, 2003

Family Imaging to add Anaheim location

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Whole-body CT and preventative health services provider Family Imaging Centers will be opening a new center in Anaheim.

November 18, 2003

Billing for VC: even the reimbursement is virtual

By Eric Barnes

Virtual colonoscopy billing has been likened to creative writing -- for fun, that is, not profit -- because it so rarely pays. Indeed, one of the most plausible ways of getting reimbursed for the exam involves writing a convincing essay.

November 18, 2003

GE introduces AutoBone

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Medical Systems has released a clinical software application, AutoBone, to allow the visualization of vascular anatomy on computed tomographic angiography (CTA) images.

November 17, 2003

AuntMinnie.com's CT Radiology Insider

By Eric Barnes

The group that pioneered virtual bronchoscopy in the 1990s has taken a giant step into the future of lung imaging. Erik Hoffman, Ph.D. and his colleagues at the University of Iowa are leading a new five-year U.S. research effort to create a futuristic model of lung morphology and function.

November 16, 2003

PET/CT is the team to beat for NSCLC staging

By Eric Barnes

In the study, 27 patients with NSCLC underwent whole-body PET/CT for either primary tumor staging or restaging after neoadjuvant therapy.

November 16, 2003

EndoCare to showcase Percryo probes

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Cryoablation provider Endocare will be debuting a new family of CT-compatible cryoprobes, Percryo, at the upcoming RSNA 2003.

November 13, 2003

Thanks to technology, CT lung nodule assessment gets trickier

By Eric Barnes

The distinctions among tumor types have become more important with the rapid evolution of CT image quality. The vendors' latest prototype scanners go even smaller and all of the vendors are headed toward isotropic imaging. What was once an indeterminate finding can now be seen in great detail.

November 13, 2003

Toshiba America Medical Systems

By Brian Casey

A new 16-slice CT scanner optimized for cardiac imaging will be a featured product in Toshiba’s booth. The new system, called Aquilion 16 CFX, was introduced in August and features 0.4-second scanning and Toshiba’s new cardiac function analysis software, SureCardio.

November 13, 2003

Siemens Medical Solutions

By Brian Casey

A Siemens CT highlight will be Speed4D, an upgrade package introduced in October that includes a new x-ray tube, workflow and data-handling protocols, and dose-reduction techniques. At the heart of Speed4D is Straton, a new CT x-ray tube that enables a gantry rotation speed of 0.37 seconds for both cardiac and whole-body applications.

November 13, 2003

Philips Medical Systems

By Brian Casey

Philips is planning to highlight a new version 3.0 software upgrade for its flagship Mx8000 IDT multislice CT scanner. The new software offers improved ease of use, increased performance, new clinical applications, and faster slice reconstructions, as well as additional slice modes, according to the Andover, MA, company.

November 13, 2003

GE Medical Systems

By Brian Casey

LightSpeed Pro16 -- a 16-slice scanner with routine 0.4-second gantry rotation -- will take center stage in the CT section of GE’s booth. The scanner employs the Waukesha, WI, company’s HiLight Matrix II detector, which supports imaging at 16 x 0.625-mm and 16 x 1.25-mm slice thicknesses in all scan modes and at all scan speeds, according to the company. The device was introduced in June 2003.

November 13, 2003

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