Womens Imaging: Page 382

Obese patients require special attention during rad therapy

By Cynthia E. Keen

It's quite a challenge to treat severely obese women diagnosed with cervical cancer. Radiation oncologists at an Alabama cancer center described the techniques they have developed to treat such patients, which they believe can be easily replicated at other hospitals, in an article in Practical Radiation Oncology.

January 17, 2012

Health Canada OKs SonoCine system

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

SonoCine has received approval by Health Canada to sell and market its automated whole-breast acquisition screening system (AWBASS) as an adjunct to mammography for screening asymptomatic women for breast cancer.

January 16, 2012

Leaders in Imaging: A conversation with Dr. Marcia Javitt

By Kate Madden Yee

For this Leaders in Imaging installment, we spoke with Dr. Marcia Javitt, section editor for women's imaging at the American Journal of Roentgenology, about the challenges faced by women in radiology, as well as the unique skills they bring to the professional table.

January 16, 2012

BSGI helps detect more breast cancer, alter treatment

By Wayne Forrest

Breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) confirmed mammography, ultrasound, and MRI results in 55% of patients and identified additional malignant lesions, clarified ambiguous findings, or significantly changed patient management in 20% of cases, according to a study from California researchers.

January 12, 2012

Konica Minolta gets FDA nod for digital mammo

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for its Xpress computed radiography full-field digital mammography system.

January 11, 2012

Naviscan completes Texas install

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PET developer Naviscan has installed its high-resolution positron emission mammography technology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

January 10, 2012

Response: Canadian breast cancer guidelines rely on faulty data

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

New guidelines for breast cancer screening that recommend women avoid routine mammography until age 50 are based on faulty methodology and will result in an "untold number of lives lost" if implemented across Canada, according to a response article published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

January 9, 2012

Breast, detector size mismatch leads to higher radiation dose

By Kate Madden Yee

Using a full-field digital mammography system with small detectors to image women with large breasts can result in nearly 50% higher radiation dose compared to imaging women whose breasts are a better match for the detector, according to researchers from Boston.

January 9, 2012

Radiology dominates ECRI list of healthcare tech issues

By Brian Casey

Topics related to either diagnostic or therapeutic use of radiation dominated a top 10 list of important hospital technology topics for 2012, published this week by nonprofit technology research firm ECRI Institute.

January 5, 2012

Automated breast US finds more cancer than mammo alone

By Kate Madden Yee

Automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) finds cancers in dense breast tissue that mammography alone would not, according to a recent study. The findings indicate that ABUS could have a role in a screening environment for women with dense breasts.

January 4, 2012

Cancer's rarity may lead to mammography misses

By Kate Madden Yee

A new study from researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital indicates that the rarity of breast cancer may contribute to the relatively high miss rate found in screening mammography, in which radiologists are estimated to miss 20% to 30% of cancers.

December 27, 2011

IDSI completes China CTLM order

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI) has sold a CT laser mammography (CTLM) system to a private imaging center near Hangzhou, China.

December 20, 2011

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