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BioSphere launches HepaSphere in Europe
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer BioSphere Medical of Rockland, MA, will launch its proprietary HepaSphere Microspheres, an embolic agent intended for the embolization of liver tumors, in Europe next month.
September 22, 2005
Avoiding false negatives on breast ultrasound
By Erik L. Ridley
Vigilance and a high degree of suspicion are needed to avoid missing breast cancers with atypical features, according to Dr. Dona Hills of Queens-Long Island Medical Group in North Babylon, NY.
September 22, 2005
GE, Oxford partner on colorectal cancer research
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Multimodality vendor GE Healthcare has joined forces with Oxford University in Oxford, U.K., to study the pathology of colorectal cancer.
September 21, 2005
NAS gets China OK for Peacock
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm North American Scientific (NAS) reported that its Nomos radiation oncology division has received regulatory approval from the People's Republic of China State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) to sell its Peacock product, a serial tomotherapy system designed for cancer treatment with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).
September 20, 2005
Intraop notches Polish Mobetron order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Intraoperative radiation therapy firm Intraop Medical of Santa Clara, CA, has received an order for its Mobetron radiation therapy system from the Wielkopolskie Centrum Onkologii Cancer Center in Poznan, Poland.
September 19, 2005
MDS Nordion to supply yttrium-90 to Berlex
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian radioisotope developer MDS Nordion of Kanata, Ontario, has been selected by Berlex Canada to supply yttrium-90 chloride sterile solution (Y-90) for use with Berlex's Zevalin radioimmunotherapy indicated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL).
September 19, 2005
TeraMedica debuts oncology software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical informatics firm TeraMedica has introduced Evercore Oncology Information Manager, a software package designed to integrate and manage all radiation oncology and radiation therapy data into a single infrastructure.
September 19, 2005
Midwest RF unwraps MR head coil
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MR coil developer Midwest RF has received Food and Drug Administration clearance for its Radiation Oncology Head Array (ROH) coil.
September 19, 2005
MR colonography shows promise, with drawbacks, in diverticulitis
By Eric Barnes
Overall, dark-lumen MR colonography (MRC) does a good job of detecting sigmoid diverticulitis, researchers from University Hospital in Essen, Germany, concluded in the online edition of European Radiology. But the study also revealed shortcomings in the technique.
September 18, 2005
CT falls short in differentiating pheochromocytomas
By Radiology Review
(Radiology Review) Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio recently evaluated the prevalence of incidental and symptomatic pheochromocytomas and their CT imaging characteristics. They found no CT parameters that enabled differentiation of the pheochromocytomas. Results of their study were published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
September 15, 2005
3TP debuts prostate MRI software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI computer-aided detection developer 3TP Imaging Sciences of White Plains, NY, has launched ProStream, a new software package designed to analyze contrast-enhanced prostate MRI studies.
September 14, 2005
InSightec begins clinical trial enrollment
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
InSightec has initiated enrollment for clinical trials evaluating its ExAblate 2000 MRI-guided focused-ultrasound treatment system in pain palliation of metastatic bone tumors.
September 14, 2005
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