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Digital mammo market could top $1.3B in 2017
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The global market for full-field digital mammography could expand at a compound annual growth rate of 8% over the next five years, according to a new report by market research firm GlobalData.
January 19, 2012
Medicare mammo screening rises; PACS market growth to continue
By Brian Casey
January 18, 2012
More Medicare beneficiaries getting breast cancer screening
By Kate Madden Yee
Recent studies have documented a drop in mammography screening rates in the U.S., but the trend doesn't appear to extend to women in the Medicare system. These women experienced rising rates of screening mammography from 2004 to 2009, according to researchers from Thomas Jefferson University.
January 18, 2012
Agfa gets FDA nod for CR mammo unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for its DX-M digitizer with needle-based detectors.
January 17, 2012
Health Canada OKs SonoCine system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SonoCine has received approval by Health Canada to sell and market its automated whole-breast acquisition screening system (AWBASS) as an adjunct to mammography for screening asymptomatic women for breast cancer.
January 16, 2012
BSGI helps detect more breast cancer, alter treatment
By Wayne Forrest
Breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) confirmed mammography, ultrasound, and MRI results in 55% of patients and identified additional malignant lesions, clarified ambiguous findings, or significantly changed patient management in 20% of cases, according to a study from California researchers.
January 12, 2012
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Konica Minolta gets FDA nod for digital mammo
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for its Xpress computed radiography full-field digital mammography system.
January 11, 2012
Naviscan completes Texas install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET developer Naviscan has installed its high-resolution positron emission mammography technology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
January 10, 2012
Response: Canadian breast cancer guidelines rely on faulty data
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
New guidelines for breast cancer screening that recommend women avoid routine mammography until age 50 are based on faulty methodology and will result in an "untold number of lives lost" if implemented across Canada, according to a response article published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
January 9, 2012
Breast, detector size mismatch leads to higher radiation dose
By Kate Madden Yee
Using a full-field digital mammography system with small detectors to image women with large breasts can result in nearly 50% higher radiation dose compared to imaging women whose breasts are a better match for the detector, according to researchers from Boston.
January 9, 2012
Radiology dominates ECRI list of healthcare tech issues
By Brian Casey
Topics related to either diagnostic or therapeutic use of radiation dominated a top 10 list of important hospital technology topics for 2012, published this week by nonprofit technology research firm ECRI Institute.
January 5, 2012
Automated breast US finds more cancer than mammo alone
By Kate Madden Yee
Automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) finds cancers in dense breast tissue that mammography alone would not, according to a recent study. The findings indicate that ABUS could have a role in a screening environment for women with dense breasts.
January 4, 2012
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