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Medicsight gets CE Mark, financing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image analysis software developer Medicsight has received the European CE Mark for Release I of its CT recognition application.
October 7, 2003
R2 installs lung CAD system in Greece
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) firm R2 Technology has installed the first commercial lung CT CAD system at IASO General Hospital in Athens, Greece.
October 6, 2003
AuntMinnie.com's Virtual Colonoscopy Radiology Insider
By Eric Barnes
As radiologists perfect their methods of performing and interpreting virtual colonoscopy, technical researchers are finding ways to make the whole process easier. Today's Insider highlights the contributions of technical innovators on two continents.
October 5, 2003
Cubism shapes the art of virtual colonoscopy
By Eric Barnes
Investigators from the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam compared conventional 3-D interpretation with a new cubed display technique. The new system speeded up interpretation time significantly, while increasing the area of mucosal surface examined.
October 5, 2003
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Mayo 'whole-body' screening keeps an eye on the brand
By Eric Barnes
The Mayo Clinic doesn't offer whole-body CT screening, not really. Not if you mean the take-all-comers, heck-with-follow-up kind of scans sold at shopping malls like stressed denim. But if you're talking about careful CT assessment of adults who happen to be asymptomatic, well then, the Rochester, MN-based practice might be able to help.
October 2, 2003
MR proves accurate and comfortable for colon imaging
By Leanne McKnoulty
Dr. Jörg Debatin from the University Hospital Essen in Germany said the two most important qualities of any screening test are diagnostic accuracy and patient acceptance -- requirements that MR colonography appears to fulfill. The procedure has been shown to be accurate for the detection of clinically relevant colonic polyps larger than 10 mm.
October 1, 2003
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AuntMinnie's CT Radiology Insider
By Eric Barnes
Dr. Frank Earnest, director of CT practice for the Rochester, MN-based group, discusses the group's go-slow approach to CT screening at the 2003 International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT.
September 28, 2003
CT follow-up improves confidence in borderline kidney lesions
By Tracie L. Thompson
In this month’s American Journal of Roentgenology, Dr. Morton Bosniak offers further suggestions from his experience with the lesions he places in Category IIF, where F stands for follow-up.
September 28, 2003
Philips to outfit Wisconsin Heart Hospital
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical device developer Philips Medical Systems has signed a multimillion dollar six-year partnership agreement with the Wisconsin Heart Hospital to provide imaging technologies to the Milwaukee-based facility.
September 24, 2003
Researchers settle on 'best' CT protocol for multislice virtual colonoscopy
By Eric Barnes
German researchers have added painstaking detail to what has become a consensus among virtual colonoscopy providers: that thin collimation and reconstruction intervals produce better images, and improved detection of smaller polyps.
September 24, 2003
Locally advanced rectal cancer benefits from pre-op chemo and radiation
By Shalmali Pal
Pairing 5-fluourouacil (5-FU) chemotherapy with preoperative radiation can increase tumor response to treatment and potentially contribute to sphincter preservation in rectal cancer patients, according to a new study.
September 24, 2003
MDCT finds predictive value in soft plaque
By Eric Barnes
Investigators in Germany used contrast-enhanced multidetector-row CT to quantitatively assess noncalcified coronary plaque. They found that the exam had predictive value for detecting some cases of coronary artery disease that would have gone undetected using traditional CT calcium screening methods.
September 23, 2003
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