Womens Imaging: Page 524

AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Insider
By Shalmali Pal
April 15, 2007
Multivendor digital mammo project makes mark in Germany
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
Digital mammography is often deployed in a heterogeneous IT environment with different developers' RIS, PACS, and archive products interacting with the modality, presenting a host of integration concerns. A group of information systems administrators in Germany recently faced the challenge of bringing CR mammography online and discovered that successfully assimilating the modality into the enterprise is not just an issue of interfacing the technology.
April 15, 2007
IDSI drops China distributor
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI) has modified its China distribution arrangements to accelerate market penetration of its CT Laser Mammography (CTLM) system.
April 10, 2007
Sectra to distribute iCAD
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer iCAD of Nashua, NH, said that it has signed a distribution agreement with healthcare technology developer Sectra of Linkoping, Sweden.
April 9, 2007
Measuring breast's electromagnetic properties ups contrast
By Shalmali Pal
The electromagnetic properties of breast tissue offer high contrast for depicting malignancies, and electromagnetic imaging can boost the contrast between normal tissue and abnormal findings, according to Dartmouth University-based researchers. But their prototype scanners still require fine-tuning before they'll be useful in a high-throughput clinical setting.
April 9, 2007
NEJM study pans CAD, draws attention and criticism
By Erik L. Ridley
Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology has long shown promise, both scientifically and anecdotally, for increasing breast cancer detection. Given that experience, the mammography community is sure to be rocked by a large study published in today's New England Journal of Medicine that found CAD to actually have a negative effect on screening mammogram interpretation.
April 4, 2007
Breast imaging expert: ACP mammo screening policy teeming with misinformation
The American College of Physicians (ACP) released new guidelines this week suggesting that women ages 40-49 may not benefit from annual mammography screening. While the ACP claims to be champions of informed decision-making, they continue to ignore the facts and mislead women, according to Dr. Daniel Kopans, who explains why he considers the ACP's recommendation that screening be based on an individual's risk level to be unsupportable.
April 4, 2007
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SenoRx prices IPO
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast cancer interventional device firm SenoRx will offer 5.5 million shares of its common stock in an initial public offering (IPO) at a price of $8 per share.
March 29, 2007
Harvard researchers develop breast cancer contrast agent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Scientists at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, MA, have developed a contrast agent that selectively targets and highlights malignant microcalcifications in the breast, while ignoring similar microcalcifications found in benign breast conditions.
March 29, 2007
Breast studies: Persistence a must with noncompliant patients; race-based tissue density not a risk factor
By Shalmali Pal
Compliance rates for diagnostic mammography and the effect of race on breast density are highlighted in two studies in the April issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. While Michigan researchers looked at the costs associated with a system designed to encourage patients to return for additional imaging, a group in Massachusetts sought to determine if innate racial differences in breast density might explain differences in breast cancer risk.
March 29, 2007
Breast MRI screening gets nod from American Cancer Society
By Brian Casey
March 28, 2007
Aurora gets California install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast MRI technology developer Aurora Imaging Technology has installed its dedicated 1.5-tesla scanner at Aurora Breast MRI of Orange County.
March 28, 2007
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