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Elekta upgrades Synergy

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta said it has enhanced its Synergy digital linear accelerator with advancements in conebeam image quality and faster reconstruction of large volumetric images.

August 18, 2005

Management strategies evolve as CT finds more lung nodules

By Eric Barnes

CT's rapidly advancing capabilities, aimed at catching more cancers while they're potentially curable, have been the driving force behind the growth of lung cancer screening trials over the past decade. But what to do with the proliferation of lung nodules? Two thoracic imaging experts discuss the impact of CT's growing screening database, and offer advice on which nodules to biopsy, follow, or even ignore.

August 18, 2005

Martinez joins RITA

Oncology device developer RITA Medical Systems has appointed Mario Martinez to the newly created position of vice president of operations, general manager.

August 17, 2005

Male mammograms: Positioning tips to ensure image quality

Each year approximately 215,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer; 1,450 will be men -- 450 of whom will die from the disease. Male patients are enough of a presence that most facilities should consider taking action to ensure that they are comfortable and that image quality is high.

August 17, 2005

Serious extracolonic findings prevalent in screening, symptomatic VC patients

By Eric Barnes

Asymptomatic screening subjects were nearly as likely as symptomatic patients to have extracolonic findings at virtual colonoscopy, radiologists in Italy have reported. The study, in a very mixed population of symptomatic and screening patients, also found a similarly high prevalence of serious extracolonic pathologies between the two groups.

August 16, 2005

FDG-PET predicts early response to chemo in metastatic breast lesions

By Shalmali Pal

Properly identifying tumor response in the early treatment stages is vital, either to determine if additional courses of therapy are needed or if treatment should be discontinued. A group of gynecologists and radiologists have proposed using sequential F-18 FDG-PET for the early prediction of chemotherapy response, and hypothesized that changes in the pattern of FDG uptake would correlate with overall survival rates.

August 16, 2005

RITA launches safety needle

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Oncology device developer RITA Medical Systems of Fremont, CA, has debuted its LifeGuard Vision safety needle.

August 15, 2005

Nebraska launches free CT lung cancer screening

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A statewide consortium in Nebraska said it will soon begin recruiting smokers and former smokers for a statewide lung screening study, with CT scans to be performed annually for five years.

August 14, 2005

SPECT/CT pilots prostate brachytherapy in community setting

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

It can be difficult to adapt a technique that was developed in an academic venue for use in a community hospital environment. However, a group from Aultman Hospital in Ohio has taken a research-based SPECT/CT immunoscintigraphy-guided radiation therapy methodology developed at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and successfully adopted the protocol into its practice.

August 14, 2005

American Shared opens new Gamma Knife center

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

American Shared Hospital Services of San Francisco has opened its 21st Gamma Knife radiosurgery center, at a hospital in Oklahoma.

August 11, 2005

Colon CAD: VC's extra eyes face new challenges

By Eric Barnes

Prototype colon CAD systems are proliferating, and thanks to years of painstaking development work they're doing a pretty good job, outperforming all but the best radiologists in the detection of colonic lesions. VC CAD expert Dr. Hiro Yoshida from Harvard Medical School in Boston discusses the major innovations that have produced today's complex CAD systems, and the moving target CAD developers face in keeping up with new performance standards.

August 4, 2005

Infrared Sciences raises $2 million

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Digital infrared imaging developer Infrared Sciences has raised $2.1 million in financing through a stock offering, according to the Stony Brook, NY-based firm.

August 3, 2005

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