Womens Imaging: Page 502

Elasticity imaging finds breast tumors based on shape, volume
By Edward Susman
Real-time elasticity imaging can improve the characterization of breast lesions while also serving as a tool to determine if biopsy is necessary, according to a multicenter study presented at the 2007 RSNA meeting in Chicago. The investigators presented an update of the results of a 2006 single-center study on breast elasticity imaging.
December 13, 2007
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Carestream releases digital mammo CAD software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health has launched new computer-aided detection (CAD) software for its CR-based mammography systems in Europe and Canada.
December 10, 2007
Florida insurer requires preauthorization for digital mammo
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Florida Today is reporting that Brevard County's largest healthcare insurer, Health First Health Plans, is requiring women who want digital mammograms for breast cancer screening to first receive authorization from the company.
December 10, 2007
iCAD adds two CAD patents
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer iCAD has received two new patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
December 9, 2007
AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Insider
By Shalmali Pal
December 9, 2007
GE licenses fetal ultrasound technique
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Multimodality vendor GE Healthcare has secured an exclusive license on a technique patented by an Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) obstetrician that can automate the acquisition of ultrasound images used by physicians to diagnose fetal heart defects. GE will use the software in its 3D/4D ultrasound systems.
December 6, 2007
Hologic to issue $1.5 billion note
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women's imaging vendor Hologic of Bedford, MA, yesterday priced an offering of convertible senior notes worth $1.5 billion.
December 5, 2007
Sectra grows sales in Q2
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Increased international sales of its medical systems powered Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra to improved financial results in the first half of the Linköping-based company's fiscal year.
December 3, 2007
Hamartoma with digital breast tomosynthesis
DBT has demonstrated the ability to reduce false-positive results.
December 2, 2007
Digital x-ray market to hit $7 billion in 2008
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The global market for digital x-ray systems is expected to produce $7 billion in sales in 2008 and hit $8.3 billion by 2011, according to a recently released report by market research firm InMedica, a division of IMS Research of Wellingborough, U.K.
December 2, 2007
U.S. bill introduced to hike bone densitometry payments
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A bill that would increase Medicare reimbursement for bone mass measurement has been introduced in the U.S. Congress.
November 29, 2007
Triple-negative breast cancers show marked clinical features
By Kate Madden Yee
CHICAGO - Women diagnosed with triple negative (TN) breast cancer -- in which the tumor is estrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor-negative, and HER2-negative -- tend to have fewer treatment options and worse prognoses than women with non-TN tumors. But certain characteristics and imaging features may help clinicians diagnose these tumors earlier, according to a presentation at the RSNA 2007 meeting.
November 28, 2007
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