Ultrasound: Page 237

Shear-wave elastography, ABUS help classify breast lesions

By Kate Madden Yee

CHICAGO - High tumor stiffness at shear-wave elastography appears to predict lymph node metastasis in women with invasive breast cancer, and automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) turned in a similar diagnostic performance to handheld ultrasound, according to two studies presented on Sunday at the RSNA meeting.

November 30, 2013

SuperSonic to showcase new Aixplorer at RSNA

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

SuperSonic Imagine will debut the newest version of its Aixplorer ultrasound system at the upcoming RSNA meeting.

November 26, 2013

ContextVision to debut image enhancement packages at RSNA

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image enhancement developer ContextVision said it will debut four real-time ultrasound image enhancement packages at RSNA 2013.

November 24, 2013

Ultrasound improves prenatal care in rural Uganda

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A recent study has shown that providing pregnant women in rural Uganda with access to ultrasound screenings resulted in overall improved quality of maternal and newborn care.

November 21, 2013

CIVCO's EX3 Stepper gets FDA OK

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

CIVCO Medical Solutions now can market its EX3 Stepper low-dose-rate and high-dose-rate ultrasound-guided brachytherapy system.

November 20, 2013

Seno Medical taps Stavros as medical director

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Optoacoustic imaging developer Seno Medical Instruments has named Dr. Thomas Stavros as its medical director.

November 19, 2013

Cephasonics debuts new ultrasound unit

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ultrasound technology and subsystems developer Cephasonics has introduced a new ultracompact ultrasound scanner, cQuest Dragonfly.

November 18, 2013

Esaote to debut cardio tool at Istanbul meeting

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ultrasound vendor Esaote has chosen next month's EuroEcho-Imaging conference, to be held in Istanbul from 11 to 14 December, to highlight its Prevention Suite.

November 17, 2013

Practice of Ultrasound: Part 13 -- Liver fat and fibrosis

By Dr. Jason Birnholz

AuntMinnie.com presents the 13th in a series of columns on the practice of ultrasound from Dr. Jason Birnholz, one of the pioneers of this modality. In this edition, Dr. Birnholz addresses the challenges of imaging liver fat and fibrosis in the age of obesity.

November 11, 2013

How does US compare to CT for identifying ovarian torsion?

By Kate Madden Yee

Thursday, December 5 | 11:40 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | SSQ05-08 | Room N226Pelvic ultrasound is considered the best imaging modality for evaluating ovarian torsion, but CT may offer comparable diagnostic value, according to researchers from Alpert Medical School at Brown University.

November 11, 2013

Adding whole-breast US finds cancers DBT misses

By Kate Madden Yee

Thursday, December 5 | 11:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | SSQ01-06 | Arie Crown TheaterIn this presentation, Yale University researchers will discuss how supplemental whole-breast ultrasound performed in addition to digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) can detect cancers DBT misses.

November 11, 2013

Radiologists equally confident in automated and handheld US

By Kate Madden Yee

Thursday, December 5 | 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m. | SSQ01-04 | Arie Crown TheaterRadiologists show equal confidence in imaging suspicious masses with automated breast volumetric scanning and handheld breast ultrasound, according to research from the University of North Carolina.

November 11, 2013

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