Ultrasound: Page 277

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
Automated whole-breast US finds more cancer than mammo alone
By Kate Madden Yee
Monday, November 28 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m. | SSE02-01 | Room E450AAutomated whole-breast ultrasound finds cancers in dense breast tissue that mammography alone would not, according to researchers who will present their finding in this Monday afternoon session.
November 8, 2011
BSGI more sensitive than ultrasound, mammography
By Kate Madden Yee
Monday, November 28 | 10:10 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | MSVM21-08 | Arie Crown TheaterBreast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) has greater sensitivity and comparable specificity compared with ultrasound and mammography, according to researchers at the Hospital of Central Connecticut, and it could be a valuable additional procedure when these imaging modalities fail to provide a clear diagnosis.
November 8, 2011
Handheld screening breast US effective in dense breasts
By Kate Madden Yee
Sunday, November 27 | 11:25 a.m.-11:35 a.m. | SSA01-05 | Arie Crown TheaterHandheld screening breast ultrasound performed by technologists and offered to women with dense breast tissue does fine in detecting small cancers missed by mammography, although the overall positive predictive value of the modality is low, according to researchers at Yale University.
November 8, 2011
Interpretation error rate in screening US comparable to mammo, MRI
By Kate Madden Yee
Sunday, November 27 | 11:05 a.m.-11:15 a.m. | SSA01-03 | Arie Crown TheaterIn this scientific paper presentation, University of Pittsburgh researchers will discuss how interpretation errors in screening ultrasound are similar in frequency to interpretation errors in mammography and MRI.
November 8, 2011
BI-RADS 3 lesions common on screening US
By Kate Madden Yee
Sunday, November 27 | 10:55 a.m.-11:05 a.m. | SSA01-02 | Arie Crown TheaterBI-RADS 3 lesions are seen in nearly 20% of participants after three rounds of screening ultrasound, but they are rarely malignant, according to researchers from Southwoods Imaging Center in Youngstown, OH.
November 8, 2011
ContextVision adds clients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image enhancement developer ContextVision said it has signed three new OEM partners in North America.
November 7, 2011
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