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Experimental infrared imager pinpoints tumor development in breast cancer
By Shalmali Pal
A real-time, handheld near-infrared device could offer a simple and noninvasive way to conduct breast cancer imaging, according to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
July 18, 2002
Howtek, ISSI merge to form new CAD company
By Robert Bruce
Film digitizer vendor Howtek has completed its acquisition of Intelligent Systems Software (ISSI), a mammography computer-aided detection (CAD) developer headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.
July 17, 2002
Hologic gets approvable letter for Selenia FFDM system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Hologic has received an approvable letter from the FDA for Lorad Selenia.
July 10, 2002
Practical Breast Pathology
Practical Breast Pathology clearly and concisely introduces the specific vocabulary of the pathologist to radiologists, surgeons, oncologists and other breast disease specialists.
July 8, 2002
Reading mammograms: the good, the bad, and the suspicious
By Eric Barnes
CANCÚN, MEXICO - With the world's attention focused on breast imaging, mammography expert Dr. Edward Sickles offered a tour of mammographically discovered lesions at this week's International Congress of Radiology.
July 2, 2002
Teaching Atlas of Mammography
Providing a correlation between mammographic findings, histopathological diagnosis, and follow-up, this teaching atlas is recommended for all radiologists and residents who specialize in mammography screening or are simply interested in breast diseases.
July 2, 2002
CAD algorithm spots spiculated malignant masses in breast
By Shalmali Pal
A new mass-detection algorithm for computer-aided detection (CAD) could be beneficial to mammographers as a second opinion, according to its developers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Nicholas Petrick, Ph.D., and colleagues reported on their results in the latest issue of Radiology.
July 1, 2002
AMA delegates support higher payments for breast imaging
By Edward Susman
Concerned that the crisis in screening-mammography access for women is not improving, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association has asked for an intensified effort by the AMA to get relief in the form of increased payments for the service.
June 30, 2002
ACR blasts New York Times mammography articles
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology of Reston, VA, has deemed the New York Times’ opus on mammography as negative, reckless, and only serving to "deter the progress in the detection and treatment of breast cancer."
June 30, 2002
Mammographers question newspaper’s ‘crusade’ against breast imaging
By Shalmali Pal
Is the New York Times waging a crusade against mammography? That’s what many radiologists are wondering after the newspaper this week published yet another negative series on breast imaging.
June 27, 2002
Will breast MRI increase mastectomy rates?
By Tracie L. Thompson
Researchers have long known that MRI has the ability to detect some breast cancers that can’t be seen with other imaging methods. But that capability is now raising another concern: Will increased use of breast MRI take us back to the "bad old days" of more frequent mastectomies?
June 27, 2002
New York Times takes mammographers to task
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiologists are the "weakest link" and a dangerous "loophole" in the fight against breast cancer, according to a front-page article appearing in today's New York Times
June 26, 2002
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