Clinical News: Page 1760

Australia to build Mo-99 facility

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Australian government is allocating $168 million ($174 million U.S.) to build a nuclear medicine manufacturing plant to produce the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).

September 19, 2012

Radiation doses OK in 1st Thailand pediatric CT survey

By Eric Barnes

Researchers in Thailand have published the country's first pediatric radiation dose survey based on data from three university hospitals. The group found that CT dose levels generally are reasonable for brain, chest, and abdominal exams.

September 19, 2012

AuntMinnie.com CT Insider

By Eric Barnes

September 19, 2012

CAD may lead to incomplete searching of images

By Erik L. Ridley

The advantages of computer-aided detection (CAD) software can be sharply reduced if readers focus their attention primarily on areas of images with CAD marks, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School have found.

September 19, 2012

GE, RadNet to collaborate in breast cancer detection

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare is joining with imaging services firm RadNet to pilot GE's Best Pathways initiative, a breast cancer detection optimization model.

September 18, 2012

Digisonics wins Pa. contract

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ultrasound image management firm Digisonics has won a contract for its structured reporting software with a Pennsylvania hospital.

September 18, 2012

Hitachi installs 1st Echelon Oval MRI

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Hitachi Medical Systems America's first Echelon Oval high-field MRI scanner has been installed and is in use at ProScan Imaging's Eastgate facility located in Cincinnati.

September 18, 2012

Toshiba wins Fla. MRI contract

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Toshiba America Medical Systems has won a contract with the University of Florida for two of its Vantage Titan 3-tesla MR systems.

September 18, 2012

Elekta launches updated version of Monaco

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation oncology firm Elekta announced it has released a new version of its Monaco treatment planning system.

September 18, 2012

ASCO BSC: Long-term APBI outcomes are favorable

By Cynthia E. Keen

Long-term outcomes of breast cancer patients participating in a clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) continue to be favorable, according to a presentation in San Francisco last week at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) Breast Cancer Symposium (BCS).

September 18, 2012

STIR MRI needs no contrast to visualize lower cranial nerves

By Wayne Forrest

High-resolution short-tau inversion-recovery (STIR) MRI without contrast is feasible for the simultaneous evaluation of lower cranial nerves and the vessels in the posterior fossa, according to a study in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

September 18, 2012

One-size-fits-all radiology reports may not please everyone

By Erik L. Ridley

While various radiology report formats may not produce differences in efficiency or reading comprehension, efforts to standardize reporting formats may be complicated by disparate reader habits and preferences, according to research from the University of Arizona and the University of Maryland.

September 18, 2012

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