Womens Imaging: Page 497

Apple, Totoku, Osirix partner on digital mammo workstation

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Apple, Japanese display provider Totoku of Tokyo, and open-source PACS workstation software provider OsiriX of Geneva will show a multimodality workstation for digital mammography and other radiology applications at this week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna.

March 4, 2008

Echocardiography parameters offer screening tool for pregnancy complications

By Erik L. Ridley

Using echocardiography to assess maternal hemodynamics and left ventricular geometry in pregnant women with a gestational age of 24 weeks may predict maternal and fetal complications, according to research published online in Hypertension.

March 4, 2008

Sectra sales climb in Q3

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

New major service and support contracts contributed to an 11.8% increase in third-quarter net sales for Swedish PACS and digital mammography developer Sectra.

March 3, 2008

CAD vendors hope FDA hearings will clear approval bottleneck

By Cynthia E. Keen

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today began a two-day set of hearings that could result in major changes to the way the agency regulates computer-aided detection (CAD) technology. Industry experts are hoping the hearings will clear up a logjam of delayed regulatory applications for CAD software that has been building since last year.

March 3, 2008

Buyer's Guide Update: Options grow for digital mammography

By Brian Casey

March 2, 2008

Breast IMRT without the overspill

By Paula Gould

An alternative intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) planning approach spares healthy structures from small, but significant, levels of radiation. IMRT has been recognized as a promising way to prevent breast cancer recurrence in patients who have opted for conservative surgery. Researchers in Alabama have devised a beam arrangement that delivers the benefits of IMRT, but without upping the low-dose overspill.

March 2, 2008