Womens Imaging: Page 386

AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Insider
By Kate Madden Yee
August 17, 2011
Mammography screening face-off; do radiologists overestimate malpractice risk?
By Brian Casey
August 17, 2011
Carestream launches updated mammo film
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health said it has launched a new version of its Kodak MIN-R 2000 film for mammography that delivers image quality enhancements along with improved processing stability and reduced processing artifacts.
August 17, 2011
Mammography debate livens pages of September Radiology
By Kate Madden Yee
The screening mammography debate has come to the September issue of Radiology through a pair of articles from the most vociferous advocates on either side: One group is led by Dr. Daniel Kopans of Massachusetts General Hospital and the other by Drs. Peter Gøtzsche and Karsten Jørgensen of the Nordic Cochrane Centre.
August 16, 2011
U-Systems' somo.v nets Canadian license
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound developer U-Systems has received a medical device license from the Medical Devices Bureau of Health Canada to sell and market its somo.v automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) system as an adjunct to mammography for screening asymptomatic women for breast cancer.
August 15, 2011
Stanford group shrinks MRI coil for better breast imaging
By Wayne Forrest
Researchers at Stanford University are working on a dedicated breast MRI coil with smaller coil elements, which they believe could result in sharper images and up to three times the sensitivity of standard MRI coils.
August 15, 2011
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IsoRay Cs-131 used for gyn procedure
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cesium-131 (Cs-131) brachytherapy seeds from medical isotope developer IsoRay Medical have been used at the University of Kentucky for gynecological cancer in a female patient whose disease recurred after previous radiation treatment.
August 14, 2011
FDA to require PMA for IDSI system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will require Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI) to file a premarket approval (PMA) application rather than a 510(k) for its CT laser mammography (CTLM) system.
August 8, 2011
News from AAPM show; comments on CAD study
By Brian Casey
August 1, 2011
Breast CAD specialists respond to JNCI study
By Kate Madden Yee
The debate about the efficacy of mammography computer-aided detection (CAD) took another turn last week, when the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on July 27 released a study that found the technology doesn't improve the accuracy of mammography and increases a woman's risk of being called back unnecessarily.
August 1, 2011
Naviscan touts PEM study results
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET developer Naviscan is touting the results of a study in which positron emission mammography (PEM) found a correlation between FDG uptake values and the factors that predict breast cancer survival.
August 1, 2011
Hologic revenue, earnings up in Q3
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Growth in all four of its operating segments contributed to a 7.2% increase in revenue for women's imaging firm Hologic in its fiscal third quarter.
August 1, 2011
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