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GE Healthcare

By Kate Madden Yee

GE Healthcare will highlight its full-field digital mammography (FFDM) offerings, including Senographe DS, a new FFDM system that debuted at last year's RSNA show. The Waukesha, WI-based company will also showcase its original FFDM system, Senographe 2000D.

November 9, 2004

GE Lunar

By Kate Madden Yee

GE Lunar, the bone densitometry division of GE Healthcare of Waukesha, WI, will showcase Lunar Prodigy Advance Plus, a direct-to-digital bone densitometry system with a cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detector. Prodigy's technology detects bone changes in a variety of clinical applications, and provides advanced hip assessments and dual-energy vertebral assessments, according to the company.

November 9, 2004

Fujifilm Medical Systems USA

By Kate Madden Yee

Fujifilm Medical Systems USA will highlight its Fuji CR for Mammography (FCR-M) technology and a new workstation that can be used with FCR-M and full-field digital mammography (FFDM) systems, as well as other modalities. Unlike dedicated FFDM diagnostic workstations, the Synapse Multi-modality Breast Imaging Workstation Configuration can be used for any imaging exam, which contributes to improved productivity and workflow, according to Stamford, CT-based Fuji.

November 9, 2004

Fischer Imaging

By Kate Madden Yee

Fischer Imaging plans to present a new version of its full-field digital mammography (FFDM) unit, SenoScan, at this year's RSNA show. SenoScan2 will continue to incorporate slot-scanning technology, cesium iodide CCD detectors, and 25-micron resolution, but will boast workflow improvements such as smart technique automatic response (STAR), wheelchair access, automatic paddle recognition, and an expanded family of soft-copy review workstations, SenoView and SenoView Plus.

November 9, 2004

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

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

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

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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