Womens Imaging: Page 576

iCAD, MagView sign technology deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology developer iCAD and radiology reporting software developer Applied Software of Burtonsville, MD, have signed a technology partnership agreement.
August 22, 2005
Confirma signs InSight
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) software developer Confirma has inked a three-year agreement to provide its CADstream MRI CAD software to selected locations within InSight Health's network of 239 fixed-site and mobile facilities.
August 22, 2005
IDSI adds distributor
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
CT laser mammography (CTLM) developer Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI) has appointed LeoMedics as the exclusive distributor of its CTLM system in South Korea.
August 21, 2005
Hologic nets Novation contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women's imaging vendor Hologic reported that it has been awarded two three-year dual-source contracts with Novation, the group purchasing organization that supplies VHA and University HealthSystem Consortium.
August 18, 2005
Male mammograms: Positioning tips to ensure image quality
Each year approximately 215,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer; 1,450 will be men -- 450 of whom will die from the disease. Male patients are enough of a presence that most facilities should consider taking action to ensure that they are comfortable and that image quality is high.
August 17, 2005
GE, InSightec ink new deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has signed a new worldwide sales and marketing agreement with InSightec Image Guided Treatment for the Tirat Carmel, Israel-based vendor's ExAblate 2000 MRI-guided focused ultrasound treatment system.
August 16, 2005
FDG-PET predicts early response to chemo in metastatic breast lesions
By Shalmali Pal
Properly identifying tumor response in the early treatment stages is vital, either to determine if additional courses of therapy are needed or if treatment should be discontinued. A group of gynecologists and radiologists have proposed using sequential F-18 FDG-PET for the early prediction of chemotherapy response, and hypothesized that changes in the pattern of FDG uptake would correlate with overall survival rates.
August 16, 2005
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Empty renal fossa on prenatal ultrasound indicates renal ectopia or agenesis
By Radiology Review
(Radiology Review) Radiologists at Children's Hospital Boston in Massachusetts determined that an empty renal fossa on prenatal ultrasound suggests either an ectopic or congenitally absent kidney, and that this finding is often associated with other fetal anomalies.
August 16, 2005
Breast cancer detected with screening mammo yields better prognosis
By Shalmali Pal
Finally, some good news for breast imagers -- breast cancer screening with mammography does offer a significant survival benefit in comparison to other cancer detection methods, according to an August 17 report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. In addition, this benefit exists in spite of two types of bias -- lead time and length -- that can skew detection data.
August 15, 2005
Fischer shows Q2 slump
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women's imaging vendor Fischer Imaging of Denver reported fiscal 2005 second-quarter revenues of $11.2 million, down from $19.8 million posted in the same period last year.
August 15, 2005
Sectra inks Turkish distribution deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish medical imaging and informatics vendor Sectra of Linköping has signed a partnership agreement with Kurt & Kurt, a Turkish medical distribution company.
August 15, 2005
Practical tips ease 3D/4D ultrasound
By Erik L. Ridley
With experience and proper understanding of pitfalls such as artifacts, users can successfully handle 3D and 4D ultrasound studies, according to Dr. Dolores Pretorius of the 3D US Imaging Group at the University of California, San Diego.
August 11, 2005
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