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Prospectively gated coronary CTA nearly equals normal-dose scans
By Eric Barnes
Researchers in Italy report that low-dose prospectively gated coronary CT angiography (CTA) scans are nearly equivalent to retrospectively gated exams in diagnostic accuracy, while reducing radiation dose by up to 72%, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
July 16, 2009
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Reina to debut DR accessories at AHRA show
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
X-ray service and accessories company Reina Imaging plans to showcase a new line of accessories for digital radiography (DR) at the upcoming American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) meeting in Las Vegas.
July 16, 2009
Carestream nets European orders for DRX-1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health has won contracts with nine European healthcare facilities for its Carestream DRX-1 system.
July 15, 2009
Boston Scientific wins Taxus clearance
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer Boston Scientific has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Taxus Liberté Long paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system.
July 15, 2009
GE launches dose-monitoring service
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has launched a new service to monitor patient radiation dose remotely for users of its Innova interventional angiography systems.
July 15, 2009
Konica Minolta gets SoCal ortho install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA has received an order for its digital x-ray technology from an orthopedic clinic in Southern California.
July 15, 2009
Does PACS software cause DR data loss?
By Brian Casey
If you routinely interact with digital radiography (DR) images on a PACS workstation, could you inadvertently be causing data loss to the original images? If so, would that data loss affect image interpretation? Those are a few of the questions posed by a new study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
July 14, 2009
iCRco completes Coast Guard install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computed radiography (CR) vendor iCRco has installed its iCR3600 CR system aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy.
July 12, 2009
AuntMinnie.com Digital X-Ray Insider
By Brian Casey
July 9, 2009
Carestream plans new CR cassette launch
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health will introduce a new computed radiography (CR) cassette at next month's 2009 American Healthcare Radiology Administrators conference in Las Vegas.
July 8, 2009
Gadolinium-based contrast agents alone don't cause NSF, study finds
By Wayne Forrest
Even at very high doses, gadolinium-based contrast agents alone are not sufficient to cause nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in patients with kidney problems, and there are ways to diminish the likelihood of NSF occurring to nearly zero, according to a study from the Mayo Clinic.
July 7, 2009
SIR publishes Standards supplement
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has published its 2009 Standards Division Guidelines as part of a special supplement to the July issue of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.
July 6, 2009
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