Clinical News: Page 1714

Health Canada issues thermography warning

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Health Canada has issued a warning on thermography-based breast imaging to Canadian citizens and healthcare providers.

November 29, 2012

Bayer buys dose software firm Radimetrics

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Bayer HealthCare has announced a deal to buy Radimetrics, a privately held Toronto-based developer of radiation dose measurement software.

November 29, 2012

Techs often bear brunt of media misinformation about imaging

By Cynthia E. Keen

CHICAGO - Do you remember the ruckus last year when television celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz recommended on the "Dr. Oz Show" the use of thyroid shields during mammograms? While Oz appears to have changed his tune, social media continues to promote this misconception, according to an ASRT @ RSNA presentation at the RSNA meeting.

November 29, 2012

Mirada gets XD3 install at Johns Hopkins

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medical imaging software developer Mirada Medical has been selected by Johns Hopkins University to provide its XD3 advanced image review and analysis software.

November 28, 2012

Time to ditch the chest x-ray, researchers conclude

By Eric Barnes

CHICAGO - If cost isn't an issue -- and that's a big if -- it's time to say goodbye to chest radiography, say researchers from Norway who compared chest x-ray to ultralow-dose CT. Results were presented on Thursday at the 2012 RSNA meeting.

November 28, 2012

Philips, Unfors RaySafe partner on new DoseAware

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Philips Royal Electronics and testing-instruments provider Unfors RaySafe have signed of a joint development agreement to develop the next generation of Philips DoseAware system.

November 28, 2012

Unfors RaySafe debuts radiation dose management software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Testing-instruments provider Unfors RaySafe has introduced new software for patient radiation dose management at the 2012 RSNA meeting in Chicago.

November 28, 2012

Radiology decision-support tool captures online knowledge

By Erik L. Ridley

CHICAGO - Semantic Web technology tools can be used to provide radiologists with decision support during image interpretation, according to research presented on Thursday at the 2012 RSNA annual meeting.

November 28, 2012

CT helps identify belly fat as osteoporosis risk factor in men

By Edward Susman

CHICAGO - Accumulation of deep visceral fat in men is a risk factor for bone loss and decreased bone strength, which may lead to osteoporosis, researchers reported at the 2012 RSNA annual meeting.

November 28, 2012

Organ doses for CT exams line up with SSDE dose estimates

By Eric Barnes

CHICAGO - Absorbed organ doses are very close to size-specific dose estimates (SSDE) in CT exams of the abdomen and pelvis, confirming the validity of radiology's new and more accurate dose measurement technique, according to a study presented at the RSNA meeting.

November 28, 2012

Philips Ingenia ranks top in KLAS MRI report

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare's 1.5-tesla Ingenia MRI system has earned top ranking in a new KLAS report, "MRI 2012: Broadening Your Field of View."

November 27, 2012

IBA launches QA line, sales network

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiopharmaceutical provider Ion Beam Applications (IBA) announced that its Dosimetry unit has launched the MagicMaX medical imaging quality assurance (QA) product line and a North American sales and service network at the 2012 RSNA meeting in Chicago.

November 27, 2012

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