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CompuMed integrates osteoporosis testing with digital mammography
By Kate Madden Yee
Every year osteoporosis affects millions of Americans, and costs the U.S. healthcare system billions of dollars to treat. Postmenopausal women, who are most at risk, are often inconsistently tested for the disease. But bone densitometry and medical informatics firm CompuMed is working to address this issue by linking its osteoporosis detection software system to digital radiography equipment.
February 17, 2005
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Digital mammo display clearance for Barco
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Diagnostic display developer Barco has received Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its Coronis 5MP LCD system for analysis of digital mammography images.
February 13, 2005
McKesson gets workstation 510(k)
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
McKesson Information Solutions - Medical Imaging Group said that it has received 510(k) marketing clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Horizon Rad Station release 11.0 PACS workstation for reading, distributing, and storing full-field digital mammography (FFDM) images.
February 10, 2005
Silver named DOBI VP
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Optical breast imaging developer DOBI Medical International has named Michael Silver, Ph.D., as its vice president of clinical research.
February 10, 2005
AuntMinnieTV: Handheld device digitizes mammograms
By Brian Casey
MaxxVision is a Gainesville, FL, company that's developed a handheld wand that enables users to digitize sections of film-screen mammograms
February 10, 2005
Multimodality breast screening in high-risk women -- how much is too much?
By Shalmali Pal
It's pretty much accepted fact that women who are genetic carriers or have a strong family history of breast cancer need to be monitored more closely than women who aren't at risk. But one issue that still requires sorting out is whether high-risk women would benefit from multimodality screening.
February 10, 2005
R2, FirstChoice contract extended
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer R2 Technology has extended its sole-source contract with FirstChoice Cooperative of Texas, a member-owned purchasing cooperative.
February 9, 2005
Dilon gets Washington install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera developer Dilon Technologies of Newport News, VA, has installed its Dilon 6800 breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) system at Providence Centralia Hospital in Centralia, WA.
February 8, 2005
IDSI adds Italian order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
CT laser mammography (CTLM) developer Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI) said it has shipped and sold a second CTLM system to its European distributor, Rome-based Biomedical International.
February 6, 2005
AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Radiology Insider
By Shalmali Pal
February 6, 2005
PEM development picks up pace
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
Although FDG-PET has demonstrated its capability to identify breast lesions, whole-body PET may not be the most efficient technology to image breast cancer. Positron emission mammography (PEM), however, has several potential benefits over whole-body PET for breast imaging, according to researchers from Duke University in Durham, NC.
February 6, 2005
IDSI starts Czech research project
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
CT laser mammography (CTLM) developer Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI) has signed a clinical collaborative agreement with Charles University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, to gather data to expand diagnostic applications of its CTLM product.
February 2, 2005
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