Ultrasound: Page 464

OmniSonics names Geffken as CFO
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Vascular ultrasound developer OmniSonics Medical Technologies of Wilmington, MA, has appointed Daniel Geffken as its chief financial officer.
December 15, 2003
Cedara, Alion to develop US guidance application
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cedara Software has signed a development agreement with Chicago-based Alion Science and Technology to supply the U.S. military with ultrasound guidance surgical technology, according to the Mississauga, Ontario-based vendor.
December 15, 2003
AuntMinnie Ultrasound Radiology Insider
By Erik L. Ridley
Most surgically resected ovarian masses turn out to be benign, owing to the high incidence of benign ovarian pathology, and to their non-specific appearance on ultrasound. But according to researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, adopting a classification system for these lesions could significantly reduce the number of unnecessary resections.
December 15, 2003
ContextVision debuts GOPView UST
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Software developer ContextVision of New York City unveiled its real-time image enhancement for ultrasound systems or review stations, GOPView UST, at the recent RSNA show.
December 11, 2003
Analogic Q1 revenues, income sag
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging equipment developer Analogic reported first-quarter revenues of $75 million, down 43% from the $132.3 million booked in the same quarter last year.
December 10, 2003
OmniSonics nets three new patents
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Vascular ultrasound developer OmniSonics Medical Technologies of Wilmington, MA, has been granted three U.S. patents covering its OmniWave technology for treatment of vascular occlusive disease, the company said.
December 9, 2003
US, CT show approximate parity for diagnosing appendicitis
By Tracie L. Thompson
For decades, imaging specialists have sought a solution to a very common diagnostic dilemma: When a patient presents with severe abdominal pain, how can one tell if it’s acute appendicitis?
December 9, 2003
External therapeutic US accelerates thrombolysis in heart attack patients
By Jill Stein
External therapeutic ultrasound (ETUS) can enhance the thrombolytic efficacy of streptokinase in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (MI), especially in those who present long after the onset of symptoms, according to researchers at the 2003 American Heart Association (AHA) meeting in Orlando.
December 8, 2003
US technology images blood flow to breast, kidney tissue
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
California start-up Sensant of San Leandro unveiled clinical images of micro-vessel blood flow inside breast and kidney tissue at this year’s RSNA show. The images were generated with Sensant’s new ultrasound probe technology, Silicon Ultrasound, which uses silicon-based transducers rather than conventional piezoelectric, crystal-based probes, along with the SonoVue ultrasound contrast agent from Esaote of Genoa, Italy. Silicon Ultrasound technology is based on work performed at Stanford University on capacitive microfabricated ultrasonic transducers (cMUTs).
December 2, 2003
Doppler ultrasound may predict early spontaneous abortion due to fetal heart dysfunction
By Peggy Peck
CHICAGO - Doppler ultrasound examinations conducted early in the first trimester of pregnancy can identify fetal heart anomalies similar to congestive heart failure in adults -- a defect that might be implicated in 40% of early miscarriages, according to Dr. Jason Birnholz, president of Diagnostic Ultrasound Consultants, Oak Brook, IL.
December 1, 2003
Emergency physicians are ordering more x-ray and US but reading less
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
CHICAGO - An eight-year retrospective study of U.S. Medicare reimbursement data shows an increase in the volume of ultrasound and conventional radiographic studies in the emergency department and a decrease in the number of exams performed by emergency medicine physicians, according to radiology researchers from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.
December 1, 2003
Nonradiologists outpace radiologists in skyrocketing use of ultrasound
By Erik L. Ridley
CHICAGO - Ultrasound utilization by cardiologists grew more than three times as rapidly as use by radiologists between 1993 and 2001, according to research from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
November 30, 2003
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