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Richardson to distribute Planar mammo display

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Display vendor Richardson Electronics said it will distribute Planar Systems' DomeC5i flat-panel system for displaying and viewing mammograms.

August 25, 2004

Aurora adds Northwest Arkansas to client roster

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Breast MRI technology developer Aurora Imaging Technology has completed the installation of its 1.5-tesla dedicated breast MRI system with bilateral rotating delivery of excitation off-resonance (RODEO) imaging technology at the Breast Center of Northwest Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR.

August 24, 2004

IMS adds iCAD to FFDM

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Mammography and x-ray firm Internazionale Medico Scientifica (IMS) of Bologna, Italy, and computer-aided detection (CAD) developer iCAD of Nashua, NH, have signed a three-year worldwide licensing and distribution agreement for CAD for digital mammography, according to the firms.

August 23, 2004

FDA approves Siemens FFDM system

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Multimodality vendor Siemens Medical Solutions has received FDA premarket approval for its Mammomat Novation DR full-field digital mammography system.

August 22, 2004

Barco pairs up with Fuji France

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Diagnostic display provider Barco has fulfilled the first orders for its Coronis 5MP Mammo LCD display system with Fuji Médical Systèmes France, according to the Kortrijk, Belgium-based firm.

August 18, 2004

PET sharpens treatment plan for advanced breast cancer

By Shalmali Pal

Previous reports have shown that FDG-PET complements traditional breast cancer imaging modalities with regard to staging, metastatic or recurrent disease, and treatment planning. But does it follow that all breast cancer patients benefit from the information offered by PET scans?

August 15, 2004