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Sectra shows sales, earnings growth in Q1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish imaging informatics and digital mammography developer Sectra reported fiscal 2005 first-quarter net sales of 100.8 million Swedish kronor ($13.5 million U.S.), a 27% upturn when compared with net sales of 79.4 million kronor ($10.6 million) in same quarter last year, according to the firm.
September 6, 2005
Compression US plus computer analysis classifies solid breast masses
By Shalmali Pal
Korean and Taiwanese physicians have proposed imaging breast elasticity with ultrasound, in combination with computer-aided analysis. They found that continuous ultrasound images, obtained during compression, could accurately classify benign and malignant lesions.
September 6, 2005
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CAD marks: To save or not to save?
By Cynthia E. Keen
The use of computer-aided detection (CAD) has become part of the diagnostic component of a mammography exam. And while there is no legal or professional requirement to keep CAD markings, radiologists may want to save them, according to some healthcare legal experts.
August 31, 2005
Sectra adds Australian PACS site
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish PACS vendor Sectra has won a deal to provide its PACS technology for breast imaging to the BreastScreen New South Wales Central Reading Facility in Sydney, Australia.
August 29, 2005
Online games urge Native American women to b-i-n-go for mammograms
By Shalmali Pal
Native Americans have the poorest cancer screening rates of any ethnic group. But now radiologists and minority health specialists who serve these communities have devised a creative patient outreach plan involving another word that is often associated with American Indian tribes: gaming.
August 29, 2005
ART cites equivalency with mammo
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Optical molecular imaging developer ART Advanced Research Technologies reported that a study in the August issue of the journal Academic Radiology demonstrated the sensitivity of near-infrared (NIR) optical techniques to the metabolic functions of breast tissue in comparison with traditional mammography.
August 25, 2005
iCAD, MagView sign technology deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology developer iCAD and radiology reporting software developer Applied Software of Burtonsville, MD, have signed a technology partnership agreement.
August 22, 2005
Confirma signs InSight
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) software developer Confirma has inked a three-year agreement to provide its CADstream MRI CAD software to selected locations within InSight Health's network of 239 fixed-site and mobile facilities.
August 22, 2005
IDSI adds distributor
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
CT laser mammography (CTLM) developer Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI) has appointed LeoMedics as the exclusive distributor of its CTLM system in South Korea.
August 21, 2005
Hologic nets Novation contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women's imaging vendor Hologic reported that it has been awarded two three-year dual-source contracts with Novation, the group purchasing organization that supplies VHA and University HealthSystem Consortium.
August 18, 2005
Male mammograms: Positioning tips to ensure image quality
Each year approximately 215,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer; 1,450 will be men -- 450 of whom will die from the disease. Male patients are enough of a presence that most facilities should consider taking action to ensure that they are comfortable and that image quality is high.
August 17, 2005
FDG-PET predicts early response to chemo in metastatic breast lesions
By Shalmali Pal
Properly identifying tumor response in the early treatment stages is vital, either to determine if additional courses of therapy are needed or if treatment should be discontinued. A group of gynecologists and radiologists have proposed using sequential F-18 FDG-PET for the early prediction of chemotherapy response, and hypothesized that changes in the pattern of FDG uptake would correlate with overall survival rates.
August 16, 2005
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