Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 380

CIVCO parent buys Medtec
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The parent company of ultrasound device developer CIVCO Medical Instruments of Kalona, IA, has acquired radiation oncology device firm Medtec of Orange City, IA.
December 11, 2005
NCI's caBIG imaging group to hold first meeting
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) will host the first meeting this week of a new collaborative effort designed to improve the sharing of medical imaging technology and research data.
December 11, 2005
Impac notches French sale
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation oncology information systems developer Impac Medical Systems, a Mountain View, CA-based subsidiary of Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta, said it has received an order to deploy its Impac IT products to 12 networked sites in France.
December 7, 2005
PET/CT shows potential for detecting unknown primary cancers
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
Detecting the primary lesion in patients presenting with cancer and an unknown primary is one of the more demanding tasks in diagnostic medical imaging. At the recent RSNA conference in Chicago, a pair of presentations put PET/CT to the task of detecting unknown primary cancers.
December 7, 2005
New 510(k) for Varian
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has received FDA 510(k) clearance for a new proton therapy eye dose calculation module that has been incorporated into company's Eclipse radiation therapy treatment planning system.
December 6, 2005
Advanced BioPhotonics, SUNY ink deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Infrared imaging technology developer Advanced BioPhotonics has signed a research agreement with the Research Foundation of the State University of New York (SUNY).
December 4, 2005
Elekta acquires Medical Intelligence firm
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta said that it has acquired Schwabmünchen, Germany-based patient handling, positioning, and immobilization device developer Medical Intelligence.
December 1, 2005
PET/CT demonstrates high sensitivity in pulmonary nodule staging
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
CHICAGO - FDG-PET/CT showed higher sensitivity than contrast-enhanced CT in the nodal staging of pulmonary lesions, according to information from an Italian research team. However, contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) revealed a higher specificity than FDG-PET/CT in characterizing pulmonary lesions, the group reported.
December 1, 2005
Dual-time-point breast PET increases diagnostic accuracy
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
Dual-time-point imaging is promising technique that can increase PET's sensitivity and specificity by maximizing the uptake of F-18 FDG in malignant tissue, while allowing for the decrease of the radiopharmaceutical in inflammatory tissue. A group of researchers from Philadelphia recently put this technique to the task of improving breast cancer diagnosis with PET.
December 1, 2005
Personalized training of mammo decision support tool unnecessary
By Erik L. Ridley
CHICAGO - Customized training of a probabilistic system used in mammography decision support yields no significant difference in the system's diagnostic performance, according to research presented Thursday at the 2005 RSNA meeting.
November 30, 2005
Fine-needle aspiration biopsy useful for smallest lung nodules
By Eric Barnes
CHICAGO - In the RSNA's interventional lung session on Wednesday, Dr. Demetris Patsios from the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, presented a study on the efficacy of MDCT-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of subcentimeter nodules, concluding that FNAB is a useful tool, if less accurate than FNAB of larger lesions.
November 30, 2005
Cedara exhibits oncology software at RSNA
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cedara Software, of Mississauga, Ontario, is showing a line of works-in-progress software for oncology diagnosis and treatment analysis at this week's RSNA 2005 in Chicago.
November 29, 2005
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