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ONI signs Denmark deal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Extremity MRI developer ONI Medical Systems reported that Aarhus County in Denmark has ordered two of the company's OrthOne 1-tesla systems.

April 10, 2006

Invivo gets $500,000 grant

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MR accessories firm Invivo of Orlando, FL, a subsidiary of MRI components provider Intermagnetics General, has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Defense.

April 10, 2006

Is 3-tesla MRI worth the hassle?

April 10, 2006

Expanded role looms for 3D in breast imaging

By Cynthia E. Keen

The increasing utilization of cross-sectional modalities and digital mammography will drive breast imaging practices to switch to soft-copy reading within the next five years, according to Dr. Mitchell Schnall from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. And as part of this transition, mammographers will find 3D visualization tools to be a growing part of their daily activities.

April 10, 2006

When MRI throughput means more than revenue

While regions within the U.S. are overpopulated with diagnostic imaging centers, Canada has backlogs for CT and MRI patients that extend for months. What could these two wildly different supply and demand situations have in common? The need for improved patient throughput, according to MRI architectural consultant Tobias Gilk.

April 10, 2006

Cardiac imaging dazzles, but radiologists can't compete alone

Noninvasive cardiac imaging modalities, especially CT and MRI, have transformed the face of cardiac imaging in recent years, opening up an all-but-limitless future for detecting and managing heart disease. But in the long run, radiologists cannot succeed without formal and significant ties to cardiologists, according to a presentation at the recent European Congress of Radiology (ECR).

April 9, 2006

Fonar adds Las Vegas customer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MRI vendor Fonar has sold an Upright MRI scanner to Axiom Imaging of Las Vegas, NV, according to Melville, NY-based firm.

April 6, 2006

Imaging helps dermatologists dig a little deeper

By Shalmali Pal

One discipline stays above the surface while the other hunts for what lies beneath, so it makes perfect sense that dermatology and radiology can complement one another. At the 2006 American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) meeting in San Francisco, imaging and skin specialists offered advice on how to select the appropriate modality for evaluating cutaneous masses or defects.

April 5, 2006

Aurora installs breast MRI at Texas center

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Breast MRI technology developer Aurora Imaging Technology said its Aurora 1.5-tesla dedicated breast MRI system has been installed and is operating at the Elizabeth Jekot, M.D. Breast Imaging Center of Richardson, TX.

April 4, 2006

Siemens inks deal with IMRIS

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Multimodality vendor Siemens Medical Solutions of Malvern, PA, has signed an OEM agreement with intraoperative MRI developer IMRIS of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

April 3, 2006

3-tesla MR shows promise for abdominal, pelvic imaging

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

PHOENIX - Three-tesla MRI offers improved signal-to-noise and contrast-to-noise ratios compared with 1.5-tesla for body imaging, according to a presentation at the 2006 Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance (SCBT/MR) meeting. However, several issues such as cost, weight, safety, and modified imaging protocols may mitigate these advantages.

April 3, 2006

Massachusetts bill takes aim at physician self-referral

By Kate Madden Yee

Radiology advocates in the U.S. have become increasingly frustrated at their inability to get the federal government to restrict physician self-referral. Now there are signs that such efforts may bear more fruit at the state level, with the state of Massachusetts mulling a ban on the practice for MRI, PET, and linear accelerator services.

April 3, 2006

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