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GE gets FDA nod for Discovery IQ PET/CT system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its Discovery IQ PET/CT system.
September 22, 2014
Irish radiology department finds it's not easy being green
By Kate Madden Yee
A new survey found that radiology staff members at a hospital in Ireland were reluctant to take simple actions that could save thousands of dollars in energy costs. Administrators may therefore need to take more extreme actions, such as programming computers to automatically go into sleep mode overnight, to wring out cost savings.
September 22, 2014
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ASNC: Should nuclear technologists read SPECT MPI scans?
By Wayne Forrest
BOSTON - Nuclear medicine technologists were nearly as accurate as cardiologists in reading stress-first SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) studies, according to research presented at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) meeting. The study hints at a role for technologists in determining which patients could avoid the rest portion of the scans.
September 21, 2014
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Imaging tool could reduce repeat breast cancer surgeries
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A type of spectrometry imaging may help reduce the number of additional surgeries for women with breast cancer, according to research published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
September 21, 2014
Kromek gets $1M to produce detectors for color CT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Kromek has received $1 million to develop and supply cadmium zinc telluride-based multispectral detectors for producing high-resolution color x-ray images by CT scanners.
September 21, 2014
MRI tracks therapeutic cells in cancer patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers have developed a perfluorocarbon tracing agent and used it to track therapeutic cells injected into colon cancer patients with MRI, according to a new report in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
September 21, 2014
Stanford team develops faster MRI coils for kids
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A team of researchers from Stanford University has developed dedicated pediatric MRI coil technology that enables the acquisition of scans in less time, potentially reducing the amount of anesthesia that needs to be used.
September 21, 2014
Mobius gets NIH grant to boost rad therapy safety
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation oncology software provider Mobius Medical Systems said it has received a phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve the safety of radiation therapy.
September 21, 2014
Big spectral CT project launches in New Zealand
By Eric Barnes
You've heard of dual-energy CT, but how about eight-energy CT? That's the goal of researchers in New Zealand, who this month received funding for a project to build a CT scanner capable of detecting eight different energies at once in scans of humans. They hope the new spectral scanner will offer functional imaging that is unprecedented for CT, with a lower radiation dose to boot.
September 21, 2014
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Digisonics integrates CVIS with GE's echo software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Digisonics said it has integrated its cardiovascular information system (CVIS) with EchoPAC software from GE Healthcare for analyzing 3D and 4D echo studies and strain rate.
September 18, 2014
Accuray wins 3-year contract with Premier
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Accuray has won an exclusive, three-year group purchasing agreement with Premier for its CyberKnife M6 and TomoTherapy HDA devices.
September 18, 2014
Lung cancer patients do better when they quit smoking
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have quit smoking or never started in the first place have a lower risk of developing secondary primary lung cancers than NSCLC patients who keep smoking, according to a study presented at the just-completed American Society for Radiation Oncology meeting.
September 18, 2014
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