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Montreal facility to evaluate ART's SoftScan

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Ville-Marie Medical and Women's Health Center in Montreal will evaluate ART Advanced Research Technologies' SoftScan optical breast imaging system.

July 12, 2007

NEJM study prompts Oregon payor to cancel CAD reimbursement

By Cynthia E. Keen

In a move certain to send chills through the imaging community, an Oregon health insurer has stopped offering reimbursement for computer-aided detection (CAD) for radiology exams. The decision could have major ramifications for the CAD industry should it ripple to other third-party payors.

July 10, 2007

Chest CT a handy adjunct to breast MR

By Eric Barnes

Dedicated breast CT scanners aren't on the market yet, or even close to market, truth be told. But breast CT happens every day -- with every chest and cardiac CT exam -- and it's the radiologist's job to read the scan for the frequent incidental findings it can yield. CT can even be used to guide breast intervention in some cases, according to Dr. Jeffrey Mendel of Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston.

July 10, 2007

New York schools land infrared research grant

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Researchers from the City College of New York (CCNY) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have received a $1.36 million grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Breast Cancer Research Program.

July 9, 2007

Sectra places two more MicroDose units

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography provider Sectra has won a contract to install two of its Sectra MicroDose Mammography systems at Värmland County Council in Stockholm, Sweden.

July 4, 2007

MR shows broad spectrum of findings in pregnant women with suspected appendicitis

By Shalmali Pal

Although acute appendicitis is not terribly common in pregnant women, it does pose a diagnostic challenge because of anatomic and histologic changes that occur in these patients. CT carries a radiation risk while ultrasound, which is the established modality in this population, doesn't always deliver the whole story. Instead, Boston-based imagers have found success with MRI for evaluating the appendix, and more, in the gravid patient.

July 2, 2007