Womens Imaging: Page 563

Physical, procedural changes boost breast imaging efficiency

By Shalmali Pal

By becoming "pod" people, breast imaging professionals at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, have increased their productivity while streamlining their workload. But such efficiency wasn't always the case at this high-volume screening mammography center.

December 20, 2005

Breast CT developers aim to 'revolutionize' mammography

By Eric Barnes

Researchers in California are hoping to revolutionize mammography quite literally -- with the aid of a prototype conebeam CT scanner that acquires images in a single revolution around the breast. In a preliminary study, its sensitivity for the detection of breast cancer was comparable to that of two-view mammography.

December 19, 2005

CTI shifts focus

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Thermal breast imaging developer Computerized Thermal Imaging said it will be taking a new approach, redirecting its energies to its CTI Thermal Imaging Processor (TIP) and its photonic stimulator products.

December 18, 2005

Adding MRS to MRI ups specificity for finding breast lesions

By Shalmali Pal

Combining MR spectroscopy (MRS) with dynamic, contrasted-enhanced MRI in the breast results in higher sensitivity and specificity, according to Italian radiologists. They presented the results of their study at the 2005 RSNA meeting in Chicago.

December 15, 2005

Breast MRI CAD yields specificity gains

By Erik L. Ridley

The use of breast MRI computer-aided detection (CAD) software can offer improvements in specificity, according to researchers from the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

December 11, 2005

Kodak to supply mammo CAD to Consorta

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Eastman Kodak Health Group of Rochester, NY, has received a contract from group purchasing organization Consorta for mammography computer-aided detection (CAD) systems.

December 6, 2005

Sectra turns in positive Q2

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Swedish imaging informatics and digital mammography developer Sectra reported fiscal 2005 second-quarter net sales of 144.7 million Swedish kronor ($18.7 million U.S.).

December 5, 2005

Medipattern gets Canadian clearance

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Canadian computer-aided detection (CAD) software developer Medipattern of Toronto has received a medical device license from Health Canada for its B-CAD for breast ultrasound application.

December 5, 2005

AuntMinnieTV: Tomosynthesis targets breast cancer

By Brian Casey

December 4, 2005

Dual-time-point breast PET increases diagnostic accuracy

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

Dual-time-point imaging is promising technique that can increase PET's sensitivity and specificity by maximizing the uptake of F-18 FDG in malignant tissue, while allowing for the decrease of the radiopharmaceutical in inflammatory tissue. A group of researchers from Philadelphia recently put this technique to the task of improving breast cancer diagnosis with PET.

December 1, 2005

Mammary Rosai-Dorfman mimics malignancy on imaging, biopsy reveals truth

By Shalmali Pal

Rosai-Dorfman disease is an idiopathic proliferative disorder of the histiocytes in the lymph nodes. The disease can infiltrate the breast, and imaging can help make the differential diagnosis between this disease and other breast disorders, according to a number of published reports. But even imaging has its pitfalls.

December 1, 2005

CAD Sciences, Hitachi partner on MR protocol

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MRI computer-aided detection developer CAD Sciences and Hitachi Medical Systems America have collaborated on an MR image acquisition protocol for breast imaging.

November 30, 2005

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