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iCAD raises $5.9 million

Computer-aided detection firm iCAD of Nashua, NH, has entered into an agreement with institutional investors for a private placement of 1.26 million units of securities at $5 per unit.

November 24, 2003

SenoRx receives CMS pass-through reimbursement

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Breast cancer interventional device company SenoRx said that it has received a transitional device pass-through reimbursement code for its tissue localization excision medical device products from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

November 24, 2003

Hologic signs Clarian

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Hologic has inked an exclusive, three-year agreement to provide Clarian Health Partners with its Lorad line of analog and digital mammography products and stereotactic breast biopsy systems.

November 24, 2003

Four-tesla MRS tumor measurement cuts out unnecessary breast biopsies

By Bruce Sylvester

The combination of 4-tesla MRI with spectroscopy could offer an accurate and noninvasive method of diagnosing breast cancer, University of Minnesota researchers report in the online issue of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Nov. 21, 2003).

November 24, 2003

Hologic, Confirma team up

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Breast imaging developer Hologic and computer-aided detection (CAD) provider Confirma have partnered to distribute Confirma’s MRI CADstream system to the mammography market.

November 20, 2003

PenRad adds to IS portfolio

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Mammography information systems provider PenRad Technologies will be building out its product line at next week’s 2003 RSNA meeting in Chicago.

November 20, 2003

Detours mark the road to U.S. adoption of digital mammo

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

William Dunlap, a radiologic technologist who got his start with mammography by performing xeromammography in the 1970s, shared his experience with digital imaging at the 2003 American Healthcare Radiology Administrators imaging center administrator conference in Tampa Bay, FL.

November 20, 2003

Imaging Diagnostic Systems lands Argentina order

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Imaging Diagnostic Systems has received an order for its CT laser breast imaging system (CTLM) from the Institutos Médicos de Alta Tecnología in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

November 17, 2003

Women’s imaging firm Hologic and Suros Surgical Systems have signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement, giving Bedford, MA-based Hologic distribution rights to the Suros automated breast biopsy and tissue excision (ATEC) system.

November 17, 2003

iCAD, Fischer expand relationship

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Computer-aided-detection (CAD) developer iCAD and mammography vendor Fischer Imaging have inked an expanded development and distribution agreement.

November 16, 2003

Sectra lands Norwegian breast imaging PACS order

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Swedish PACS firm Sectra has received an order for a PACS network dedicated to breast imaging from Brystsentrum, a breast screening center in Tönsberg, Norway.

November 16, 2003

VuComp

By Kate Madden Yee

CAD startup VuComp will introduce M-Vu, its first product in a CAD line based on image-understanding algorithms.

November 16, 2003

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