Womens Imaging: Page 484

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

Sentinelle to show new Aegis version

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MRI technology developer Sentinelle Medical will show its Aegis 3D technology with Bright 2.0 software at next week's 2008 RSNA meeting in Chicago.

November 25, 2008

U-Systems to initiate breast US study

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Breast ultrasound systems developer U-Systems plans to conduct a multicenter breast cancer screening study named somo-InSIGHT, using its proprietary automated breast ultrasound system.

November 25, 2008

Study: Early x-ray exposure may increase breast cancer risk

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Women who have a BRCA mutation and have chest x-rays before the age of 30 are at an 80% increased risk of breast cancer compared to those who don't carry the gene.

November 25, 2008

PACSGear launches mammo product

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PACS accessories firm PACSGear has introduced its new PacsScan Film for mammography, an application specifically designed for digitizing film-based mammography images.

November 24, 2008