Ultrasound: Page 273

3D/4D prenatal ultrasound raises potential bioeffects concerns
By Erik L. Ridley
Sunday, November 27 | 11:25 a.m.-11:35 a.m. | SSA09-05 | Room E351A researcher from the Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University in China has found that dynamic 3D ultrasound scanning can induce abnormal morphological changes and apoptosis in the brains of fetal mice.
November 13, 2011
Adding strain ratio fails to improve thyroid elastography
By Erik L. Ridley
Sunday, November 27 | 11:25 a.m.-11:35 a.m. | SSA21-05 | Room S504ABIn this scientific session, a South Korean team will explain how incorporating strain ratio into thyroid elastography did not yield better clinical performance.
November 13, 2011
Ultrasound-guided procedure provides better outcome in epitrochleitis
By Erik L. Ridley
Sunday, November 27 | 11:15 a.m.-11:25 a.m. | SSA13-04 | Room E451AAn Italian team has found that an ultrasound-guided combined procedure can provide faster and longer-lasting pain relief in patients with epitrochleitis.
November 13, 2011
Study determines rate, causes of failure for US tracking of HCC
By Erik L. Ridley
Sunday, November 27 | 11:15 a.m.-11:25 a.m. | SSA06-04 | Room E353AThis scientific session will review a study from the University of Toronto that analyzed ultrasound surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
November 13, 2011
In vivo compression improves thyroid elastography results
By Erik L. Ridley
Sunday, November 27 | 10:55 a.m.-11:05 a.m. | SSA21-02 | Room S504ABIn this Sunday scientific presentation, researchers will share how in vivo compression can improve interobserver agreement and intraobserver reproducibility in thyroid elastography.
November 13, 2011
ASE says it's happy with Definity label change
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) said that it's pleased that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has made positive revisions to the U.S. label for Lantheus Medical Imaging's Definity ultrasound contrast agent.
November 10, 2011
MedaPhor wins 1st U.S. contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
U.K. ultrasound training developer MedaPhor said it has won its first U.S. contract, with the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
November 10, 2011
Informatics tools improve teleultrasound services in developing nations
By Cynthia E. Keen
Thursday, December 1 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSQ07-09 | Room S402ABIn this scientific presentation, the founders of Imaging the World, a nonprofit organization that provides teleultrasound to rural villages in Uganda, will describe how imaging informatics technology is improving the quality of its service.
November 10, 2011
Structured templates don't improve accuracy, speed for ultrasound reports
By Cynthia E. Keen
Thursday, December 1 | 11:40 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | SSQ07-08 | Room S402ABThe use of structured templates to produce reports of abdominal ultrasound exams at the Ottawa Hospital in Ontario was inefficient, according to an analysis that will be presented in this scientific session.
November 10, 2011
RIS integration eliminates paper ultrasound measurement forms
By Cynthia E. Keen
Tuesday, November 29 | 12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m. | LL-INS-TU8A | Lakeside Learning CenterA Web-based data entry form to record ultrasound measurements has not only eliminated the use of paper forms in the radiology department of Staten Island University Hospital, it has improved the accuracy of communications between technologists and radiologists.
November 10, 2011
FDA accepts U-Systems' PMA for ABUS
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted ultrasound developer U-Systems' premarket approval (PMA) application for use of the firm's somo.v automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) system for breast cancer screening.
November 9, 2011
Physicians with financial ties order more cardiac stress tests
By Eric Barnes
Physicians who stand to gain financially from nuclear stress tests or stress echo exams ordered more of the imaging studies for their patients as a follow-up to cardiac interventional procedures, concludes a new study published November 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
November 8, 2011
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