Womens Imaging: Page 423

Fuji combines units, hits FFDM milestone
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Fujfilm Medical Systems USA will absorb Fuji's Problem Solving Concepts (ProSolv) and Empiric Systems subsidiaries, effective August 2.
July 28, 2010
Hologic secures panel date for tomo PMA
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women's healthcare vendor Hologic has received a date for review of its Selenia Dimensions 3D digital mammography tomosynthesis system by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
July 26, 2010
Study offers comparison of conebeam breast CT to mammo
By Kate Madden Yee
Conebeam breast CT can image the entire breast from chest wall to nipple with sufficient resolution and at a radiation dose within the range of conventional mammography, according to a new study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
July 26, 2010
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Double readers top CAD in finding breast tissue deformities
By Kate Madden Yee
A single reader using a computer-aided detection (CAD) system won't find parenchymal deformities in screening mammograms as well as double readers, according to new data from the Computer-Aided Detection Evaluation Trial II (CADET II) published in the August issue of Radiology.
July 25, 2010
Intelerad nets IntelePACS order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS vendor Intelerad Medical Systems has implemented its IntelePACS breast imaging software at Insight Medical Imaging of Edmonton to screen and diagnose mammography studies.
July 19, 2010
Young women have highest cancer risk from body CT scans
By Erik L. Ridley
PHILADELPHIA - The age and gender of patients are significant determining variables in calculating the risk of radiation-induced cancer from body CT scans, with young women at highest risk, according to research presented Monday at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting.
July 19, 2010
Former VA rad makes waves; FDA shuts down PET lab; SCCT and AAPM reports
By Brian Casey
July 19, 2010
New technologies show promise for breast imaging
By Kate Madden Yee
Conebeam CT, breast MRI, and dual-energy mammography show promise as techniques to quantify breast density, which is linked to a higher risk of breast cancer, according to two new studies to be presented at this week's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting in Philadelphia.
July 19, 2010
SAVI breast brachytherapy produces good 2-year outcomes
By Cynthia E. Keen
The treatment and outcomes of more than 100 breast cancer patients who received radiotherapy treatments delivered by a multichannel single-entry brachytherapy device have been so positive that radiation oncologists are suggesting that its use be expanded.
July 15, 2010
HHS rules support earlier mammography
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued new guidelines that require new private health plans to cover preventive services, including mammography starting at age 40.
July 13, 2010
U.K. cancer survival rates grow
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women treated in England and Wales for breast and ovarian cancers are twice as likely to survive for at least 10 years as compared to patients diagnosed and treated in the early 1970s, while long-term survival for men treated for prostate cancer has more than tripled, according to new statistics from Cancer Research UK.
July 13, 2010
IDSI completes Indian install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI) has installed its CT Laser Mammography system at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India.
July 11, 2010
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