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Study: Less breast screening leads to more palpable cancers
By Kate Madden Yee
Women who present with palpable breast tumors tend to be those who don't undergo annual screening mammograms, according to a new study. And these palpable tumors are larger and at more advanced stages of disease when they are discovered.
March 15, 2010
UFE fertility rates compare to surgery
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women who undergo uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) have comparable fertility rates to those who have their fibroids surgically removed by myomectomy, according to a new study presented at this week's Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) meeting in Tampa, FL.
March 14, 2010
Women sent to cath lab twice as often as men
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women with stable chest pain are twice as likely to be sent for invasive angiography as men with the same symptoms, according to a new study presented Sunday at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting in Atlanta.
March 14, 2010
FDG-PET falls short in assessing some para-aortic lymph node metastases
By Wayne Forrest
While FDG-PET performs well in detecting para-aortic lymph node (PALN) metastasis among patients with a relatively high probability of the disease, the modality falls short in evaluating para-aortic lymph nodes based solely on cervical cancer, according to a new study in the March Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
March 14, 2010
WSJ: Philips mulls bid for Hologic
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A March 11 article in the Wall Street Journal highlighting rumors that multimodality vendor Philips Healthcare might buy women's imaging company Hologic has led to a surge in the latter's stock price.
March 11, 2010
House bill would bar use of USPSTF guidelines to deny coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A New Jersey representative has introduced legislation to the U.S. House of Representatives that would ensure preventive services, such as mammograms, could not be denied coverage for service by a group health plan or health insurance issuer as a result of federal guidelines.
March 10, 2010
Prenatal MRI discovers often-misdiagnosed genetic disease
By Wayne Forrest
In what is believed to be a first in the U.S., radiologists at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Stanford, CA, have used prenatal MRI to detect a rare genetic disease in a newborn.
March 9, 2010
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Carestream passes mammo test
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health's computer radiography (CR)-based mammography imaging systems and multimodality breast imaging workstation have passed Mammography Image Integration Profile testing conducted by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise International at its recent North America Connectathon in Chicago.
March 9, 2010
TechniScan begins phase II warm bath US study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast ultrasound imaging developer TechniScan has begun phase II of its grant study for its warm bath ultrasound system at the University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
March 8, 2010
Hologic debuts upright biopsy at ECR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
VIENNA - A new digital upright biopsy system, called Affirm, was among the new product launches at this week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) meeting in Vienna by women's imaging vendor Hologic of Bedford, MA.
March 7, 2010
Organ-based tube-current modulation cuts breast dose
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Radiation doses to the breast can be cut by nearly 40% using a new organ-based dose modulation technique in combination with a noise-optimized image reconstruction method. The two techniques must be used together if the resulting images are to remain readable, researchers reported.
March 7, 2010
Breast MRI CAD yields high sensitivity, specificity
By Erik L. Ridley
VIENNA - Breast MRI computer-aided detection (CAD) technology can effectively distinguish between benign and malignant lesions, according to research from Germany presented at the 2010 European Congress of Radiology.
March 7, 2010
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