Womens Imaging: Page 472

SonoSite launches S-GYN system

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Compact-ultrasound developer SonoSite has launched its new S-GYN system, designed for gynecologists who want to perform imaging for diagnosis and procedural guidance in the patient exam room.

December 1, 2008

Contrast variations prove main factor for breast cancer visibility

By Kate Madden Yee

CHICAGO - The Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST) of 2005 involved nearly 50,000 asymptomatic women who presented for screening mammography at 33 sites in the U.S. and Canada. Researchers have now used the DMIST data to evaluate which factors contribute to lesion visibility in both digital and analog mammography.

December 1, 2008

Brachytherapy preserves cosmesis in breast cancer patients with implants

By Edward Susman

CHICAGO - Researchers suggest they have a better option than mastectomy and breast reconstruction for women with breast augmentation implants who have been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. Dr. Robert Kuske provided details about the brachytherapy technique at the 2008 RSNA conference.

November 30, 2008

Siemens highlights new dual-source CT, breast MRI, DBT systems

By Brian Casey and Erik L. Ridley

CHICAGO - The latest generation of its dual-source CT technology, an MRI scanner optimized for breast imaging, and a work-in-progress digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) technology are highlights for Siemens Healthcare at this year's RSNA show.

November 30, 2008

iCAD expands CAD portfolio

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Computer-aided detection (CAD) firm iCAD launched new CAD software for CT and MRI at this week's RSNA show in Chicago.

November 30, 2008

Sentinelle signs distribution deal with Toshiba

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MRI technology developer Sentinelle Medical announced a new OEM distribution agreement with Toshiba America Medical Systems to offer its Vanguard T-Series breast coils with Toshiba's Vantage Atlas and Vantage Titan MRI scanners.

November 30, 2008

MRgFUS effective, safe for outpatient fibroid treatment

By Edward Susman

CHICAGO - MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) can successfully destroy more than 50% of fibroids with little or no pain, researchers reported at the 2008 RSNA conference in Chicago.

November 30, 2008

MRI helps predict breast cancer invasiveness at surgery

By Kate Madden Yee

CHICAGO - The use of breast MRI has increased by double-digits this year, a boost some industry watchers attribute to increased awareness of how the technology helps clinicians detect and treat breast cancer earlier in high-risk women.

November 30, 2008

Ultrasonix debuts new ultrasound products

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Canadian ultrasound developer Ultrasonix Medical of Richmond, British Columbia, launched new breast imaging and mobile radiology systems for its OpenSonix platform at this week's RSNA conference in Chicago.

November 29, 2008

Assessing response to chemotherapy: MRI bests mammography

By Kate Madden Yee

CHICAGO - MRI proves better than mammography for measuring breast tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, according to research performed at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and eight other U.S. academic institutions for the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) 6657 study.

November 29, 2008

Annual breast screening more effective than biennial

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Australian researchers found that women diagnosed with cancer who had received annual mammography screening had smaller tumors than those who were screened every two years.

November 27, 2008

Dual-head gamma camera increases breast lesion detection

By Kate Madden Yee

In what they believe is the first clinical study conducted using a dual-head configuration of a molecular breast imaging system, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, explored whether the use of this kind of system would increase the sensitivity of this modality.

November 27, 2008

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