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Hitachi brings Scenaria CT to Fla.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Hitachi Medical Systems America has installed its first Scenaria 128-slice CT scanner in Florida.
April 15, 2014
NC hospital deploys GE ABUS system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
CaroMont Regional Medical Center of Gastonia, NC, has installed an automated breast ultrasound system (ABUS) from GE Healthcare.
April 15, 2014
Image Wisely releases 3rd safety case
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Image Wisely campaign has launched its third radiation safety case, this time on CT brain perfusion dose optimization.
April 15, 2014
MITA publishes radiation therapy gating standard
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) has released its RT 1-2014 gating interface standard.
April 15, 2014
MRI finds marijuana-induced brain changes
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI results suggest that young adults who smoke marijuana at least once a week could experience size and shape changes in two brain regions associated with emotion and motivation.
April 15, 2014
Digital mammography finds DCIS most likely to become cancer
By Kate Madden Yee
Digital mammography finds more small, invasive breast cancers, but it also identifies more ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) -- some of which may never cause harm if undetected. But a new study in the April issue of Radiology claims that digital mammography tends to find DCIS lesions that are more likely to progress to cancer.
April 15, 2014
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Ga. technologist gets jail time for entering false mammo records
By Brian Casey
A radiologic technologist in Georgia accused of marking nearly 1,300 mammograms as normal when they were never interpreted by a radiologist today pleaded guilty in the case and has received a sentence of at least five months in jail.
April 14, 2014
VuCOMP updates M-Vu Breast Density software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
VuCOMP has unveiled version 2.0 of its M-Vu Breast Density software for calculating and assessing breast density on mammograms.
April 14, 2014
Accountable Radiology Advisors adds consultant
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Consulting firm Accountable Radiology Advisors has signed Dr. Stacey Funt as a consultant.
April 14, 2014
Ground Fluor receives $728K grant
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical developer Ground Fluor Pharmaceuticals has received a $728,000 phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant.
April 14, 2014
DTI-MRI sheds light on mild traumatic brain injury
By Wayne Forrest
Researchers using diffusion-tensor MRI (DTI-MRI) believe they have identified parts of the brain that cause people with mild traumatic brain injury to become dizzy or have vision problems, according to a study published online April 15 in Radiology.
April 14, 2014
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PET/CT details hint at survival of head and neck cancer patients
By Wayne Forrest
Japanese researchers have found that several PET/CT parameters -- in particular, a ring-shaped area of FDG uptake -- are reliable predictors of survival for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Results of their study were published in the April issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
April 14, 2014
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