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Philips nets CE Mark for PET/MRI
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare has received the CE Mark for its whole-body Ingenuity TF PET/MRI system.
January 24, 2011
GE settles Omniscan case before trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has settled one of the first lawsuits scheduled to go to trial over charges that its Omniscan MRI contrast agent caused nephrogenic systemic fibrosis.
January 24, 2011
CMS continues to eye imaging overutilization
By Kate Madden Yee
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to keep its eye on imaging utilization: The agency is planning a meeting for January 31 to discuss whether to add new imaging exams to a data reporting program designed to track overutilization.
January 24, 2011
Maryland court upholds state self-referral law
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Maryland State Court of Appeals has ruled against the practice of self-referral of advanced medical imaging and radiation therapy, reaffirming the state's physician self-referral law, according to the American College of Radiology.
January 24, 2011
3D MRI stress perfusion accurate for myocardium evaluation
By Eric Barnes
New research from Germany shows how cardiac MRI can assess myocardial function by combining cine imaging, stress perfusion, and scar imaging to produce a high percentage of correct diagnoses and high-quality images, according to results published January 25 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
January 24, 2011
Siemens nets 3T MRI order from U.K.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has sold a Magnetom Verio 3-tesla MRI scanner to Russells Hall Hospital, part of the Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the U.K.
January 23, 2011
FDA panel gives nod to Bayer's Gadovist MRI contrast agent
By Wayne Forrest
An advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today voted unanimously to recommend approval for Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals' Gadovist 1.0 (gadobutrol), a gadolinium-based contrast agent for contrast-enhanced MRI of the central nervous system.
January 20, 2011
Lantheus signs national contract with Novation
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lantheus Medical Imaging said that it has signed a national contract with group purchasing organization Novation of Irving, TX.
January 20, 2011
Oldelft brings Oasis to Netherlands
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging equipment supplier Oldelft Benelux has received an order for the first Oasis 1.2-tesla open MRI scanner from Hitachi Medical to be installed in the Netherlands.
January 18, 2011
Colored wristbands solve MR safety problem at Mayo Clinic
By James Brice
MRI personnel at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, have learned to look for teal-colored wristbands on patients administered minimal sedation during MRI scans. The colorful wristbands indicate that patients require a nurse's assessment to determine when it is safe for them to go home.
January 16, 2011
AuntMinnie.com MRI Insider
By Brian Casey
January 12, 2011
QSUM gets draping patents
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast biopsy accessories developer QSUM Biopsy Disposables has received two patents from draping products used on women's imaging devices.
January 12, 2011
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