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Why do rad therapy costs vary? And, US beats CT for kidney stones; PET/CT for breast cancer
By Brian Casey
September 17, 2014
MRI aids differentiation of traumatic cerebral fat embolism
By Philip Ward
An Egyptian-led team of MRI researchers reported at last week's International Congress of Radiology that cerebral fat embolism (CFE) can be differentiated from diffuse axonal injury because CFE has a higher incidence of increased T2-FLAIR and diffusion-weighted imaging lesions.
September 17, 2014
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Lantheus touts flurpiridaz F-18 clinical data
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lantheus Medical Imaging is highlighting clinical data that show reductions in radiation exposure and improved image quality with flurpiridaz F-18 PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) compared to SPECT MPI.
September 17, 2014
FDA clears Siemens' Somatom Scope CT scanner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared Siemens Healthcare's Somatom Scope, a 16-slice CT scanner.
September 17, 2014
GE installs new cath lab software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has made the first installation of new business operations and analytics software for cardiac catheterization labs.
September 17, 2014
PET sheds light on trauma symptoms
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Using PET imaging, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have linked a receptor in the brain associated with emotions to a narrow cluster of trauma symptoms, including sadness, emotional detachment, and listlessness.
September 17, 2014
Report: GE approval will spur DBT sales
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The approval of a digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) system from GE Healthcare will invigorate the mammography market and lead to growth in overall DBT sales, according to a new market research report by research and consulting firm GlobalData.
September 17, 2014
ASTRO: Surgery beats rad therapy for some lung cancers
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer who are otherwise healthy do better over time when they undergo conventional surgical treatment rather than radiosurgery, according to a new study presented on Wednesday at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in San Francisco.
September 17, 2014
EOS gets FDA nod for new 3D software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
EOS Imaging has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for version 1.6 of its sterEOS 3D imaging software.
September 17, 2014
Fuji VisualSonics adds to Vevo line
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Fujifilm VisualSonics is highlighting its Vevo 3100 high-frequency ultrasound system at this week's World Molecular Imaging Congress in Seoul, Korea.
September 17, 2014
ASTRO: Radiation therapy cost analysis suggests inefficiency
By Kate Madden Yee
SAN FRANCISCO - A new analysis of radiation therapy costs presented at this week's American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting has found wide variations that aren't related to patient or disease factors. Costs varied between standalone centers and hospital departments -- a variance that has since been flattened by changes in Medicare reimbursement.
September 17, 2014
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Ultrasound should be 1st choice for suspected kidney stones
By Erik L. Ridley
Ultrasound should still be the first imaging test of choice for evaluating patients with suspected nephrolithiasis, according to research published in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study found that using CT first didn't yield better clinical outcomes.
September 17, 2014
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