Ultrasound: Page 300

Univ. of Wash. students win ultrasound grant
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A team of University of Washington undergraduate students has won a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test a low-cost ultrasound system in Africa.
November 10, 2010
CT drives imaging growth in emergency departments
By Eric Barnes
Monday, November 29 | 9:05 a.m.-9:15 a.m. | VE21-02 | Room N227Imaging utilization in emergency departments has grown every year from 2000 to 2008 -- but CT is far and away the biggest driver of imaging utilization, according to Vijay Rao, MD, and colleagues from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. And it's mostly radiologists doing it.
November 10, 2010
DBT improves sensitivity, specificity of mammography
By Kate Madden Yee
Thursday, December 2 | 10:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | SSQ01-02 | Arie Crown TheaterDigital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) reduces the problem of tissue superimposition, thus improving both the sensitivity and specificity of mammography in diagnosis and screening, according to researchers from King's College Hospital in London.
November 9, 2010
Targeted ultrasound best for biopsy after incidental breast MRI findings
By Kate Madden Yee
Wednesday, December 1 | 3:10 p.m.-3:20 p.m. | SSM02-02 | Room E450ABreast MRI can find additional lesions when used as an adjunct to mammography and ultrasound, but it's also associated with a higher false-positive rate, according to Italian researchers. Using targeted ultrasound with these incidental MRI lesions offers a way to reduce false positives.
November 9, 2010
Shear-wave elastography improves ultrasound diagnosis of breast masses
By Kate Madden Yee
Wednesday, December 1 | 11:25 a.m.-11:35 a.m. | VB41-13 | Arie Crown TheaterWhen used with B-mode ultrasound, shear-wave elastography -- which quantitatively measures soft-tissue stiffness in real-time -- can improve the modality's specificity without compromising its sensitivity, according to researchers from Imperial College London in the U.K.
November 9, 2010
Targeted 'second-look' ultrasound finds additional, smaller lesions
By Kate Madden Yee
Tuesday, November 30 | 3:40 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | SSJ02-05 | Room E450AUsing ultrasound to take a second look at women with breast cancer who have already undergone mammography and an initial ultrasound can help find additional, smaller malignant lesions, but many of these belong to lower-risk BI-RADS categories, according to researchers from Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid.
November 9, 2010
'Multiple-bilateral' breast mass malignancy rate comparable to similar lesions
By Kate Madden Yee
Tuesday, November 30 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m. | SSJ02-01 | Room E450AMalignancy rates for multiple-bilateral breast masses detected at whole-breast ultrasound are comparable to rates for masses with similar features but not categorized as multiple-bilateral, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station in Lutherville, MD.
November 9, 2010
Targeted breast US identifies cancer BI-RADS 3 lesions found by MRI
By Kate Madden Yee
Monday, November 29 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m. | SSE01-01 | Room E450AUsing targeted ultrasound on breast lesions identified as BI-RADS category 3 by MRI can help identify malignancies, according to researchers from Brown University in Providence, RI.
November 9, 2010
Analog Devices debuts ultrasound receivers
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Analog Devices has launched the fourth generation of its octal (eight-channel) ultrasound receivers.
November 8, 2010
Mindray advances net revenues in Q3
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Strong international sales powered Mindray Medical International to double-digit gains in third-quarter and nine-month net revenues.
November 8, 2010
Ultrasound sufficient for evaluating pediatric appendicitis
By Erik L. Ridley
Point-of-care ultrasound conducted by emergency medicine physicians may be a useful screening tool for evaluating acute appendicitis in children, according to research from Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey.
November 4, 2010
Siemens completes U.K. Acuson order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has installed two Acuson S2000 diagnostic ultrasound systems at Royal Preston Hospital in Preston, U.K.
November 2, 2010
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