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Eastman Kodak Health Imaging
By Kate Madden Yee
Eastman Kodak Health Imaging of Rochester, NY, will introduce a new mammography support package, DirectView PACS System 5 Mammography Upgrade. The package consists of an ergonomically designed image review and storage workstation that supports full-field digital mammography (FFDM), ultrasound, and MRI products from multiple vendors, and includes two 5-megapixel monitors.
November 9, 2004
DOBI Medical International
By Kate Madden Yee
DOBI Medical International will display its Dynamic Optical Breast Imaging (DOBI) ComfortScan system, a noninvasive adjunct device to mammography. Instead of using x-rays, ComfortScan employs near-infrared light and gentle external pressure to detect the growth of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) in suspicious areas of the breast.
November 9, 2004
Dobi
Dilon Technologies
By Kate Madden Yee
Dilon Technologies will showcase its dedicated scintimammography system, Dilon 6800, in its RSNA booth. Configured much like a mammography unit, Dilon 6800 allows a woman to sit upright with her breast lying on the detector.
November 9, 2004
Dilon
Confirma
By Kate Madden Yee
Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer Confirma plans to highlight its breast MR image processing CAD technology, CADstream. Updated to version 3.1 in July, the device features multiplanar reformatting, angiogenesis maps, maximum intensity projections, and a CAD analysis tool, SureLoc, for MR-guided interventional procedures.
November 9, 2004
Confirma
Sectra to install FFDM in Munich clinic
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
RIS/PACS vendor and digital mammography developer Sectra of Linköping, Sweden, will install its MicroDose Mammography full-field digital mammography (FFDM) system in a private radiology practice in Munich, Germany.
November 7, 2004
Emageon gets OK for digital mammo viewing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image management firm Emageon has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to use its UltraVisual advanced visualization software for soft-copy viewing of digital mammography images in conjunction with FDA-approved display hardware.
October 27, 2004
Rising breast cancer cases create need for increasing awareness
Breast cancer is rapidly emerging as the most common cancer among urban Indian women, and the breast cancer rate in India is likely to double in the next 10 years. The rising rate calls for the need to increase the awareness of breast cancer and emphasize the importance of mammography screening.
October 26, 2004
CAD may unmask unsuspected cancers in diagnostic mammo
By Shalmali Pal
Radiologists from California studied whether computer-aided detection (CAD) could enhance diagnostic mammograms, potentially picking up secondary cancers. They found that CAD systems could help radiologists identify cancers and suspicious areas that were not a clinical concern initially.
October 26, 2004
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Aurora ships first breast MRI unit outside U.S.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast MRI technology developer Aurora Imaging Technology has installed its first dedicated breast MRI system outside of the U.S.
October 25, 2004
IHS brings mobile mammo to High Plains
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Indian Health Service (IHS) will be dedicating a mobile women's health clinic next week in Belcourt, ND, to serve women in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska.
October 19, 2004
Fischer, Philips partner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Mammography vendor Fischer Imaging and multimodality vendor Philips Medical Systems have signed a three-year global agreement under which Philips will sell, service, and support a specialized version of Fischer's digital mammography system integrated with Philips' Unique image processing and user interface.
October 14, 2004
OmniCorder scores Italian install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Infrared imaging technology provider OmniCorder Technologies has delivered its BioScanIR system to Italy's National Tumor Institute in Milan, according to the East Setauket, NY-based vendor.
October 14, 2004
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