Clinical News: Page 1763

Quantum adds Okla. customer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiography equipment vendor Quantum Medical Imaging has completed the installation of a single-detector digital x-ray system at the Seminole Family Medicine Clinic in Seminole, OK.

September 13, 2012

Agfa debuts DX-D Retrofit detector in North America

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare is now selling its DX-D Retrofit with Musica2, a detector that upgrades x-ray equipment to digital radiography, in North America.

September 13, 2012

Piramal moves ahead with florbetaben PET for Alzheimer's

By Wayne Forrest

Since its acquisition of Bayer Pharma's molecular imaging agent portfolio five months ago, Piramal Imaging has been making steady progress in advancing its PET tracer designed to detect beta-amyloid deposits in the brain, which have been linked to early signs of Alzheimer's disease.

September 13, 2012

ASCO BCS: Mammography use dropped 5% after USPSTF change

By Kate Madden Yee

SAN FRANCISCO - Use of screening mammography among women ages 40 to 49 dropped 5% in private health plans after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) changed its guidelines in 2009, according to a study presented on September 13 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) Breast Cancer Symposium (BCS).

September 12, 2012

AuntMinnie.com MRI Insider

By Wayne Forrest

September 12, 2012

SonoSite partners with Soma Access

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Handheld-ultrasound firm SonoSite has signed an agreement with Soma Access Systems to bring that company's AxoTrack needle visualization technology to market on SonoSite ultrasound systems.

September 12, 2012

Nordion realigns into 2 business units

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nordion is realigning to create two business units: Targeted Therapies and Specialty Isotopes. The Specialty Isotopes segment will include Sterilization Technologies and Medical Isotopes.

September 12, 2012

European panel confirms value of breast screening

By Philip Ward

After a steady flow of skeptical reports over recent months, a new review of breast cancer screening services in Europe has concluded the benefits in terms of lives saved outweigh the harms caused by overdiagnosis, with screening mammography cutting breast cancer deaths by as much as half.

September 12, 2012

ASNC: U.S. cardiologists using less imaging

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

U.S. cardiologists are seeing more patients than ever before, yet on average they are performing fewer advanced nuclear imaging tests on those patients, according to a new report from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC).

September 12, 2012

Some imaging studies not needed for breast cancer metastasis

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The routine use of bone scans, liver ultrasound, and chest radiography in the staging evaluation of primary breast cancer patients is of little value in detecting metastatic disease in women with clinical stage I and II cancers, according to an abstract to be presented at the upcoming American Society of Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Symposium in San Francisco.

September 12, 2012

Cephasonics signs Japanese distributor

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ultrasound technology and subsystems provider Cephasonics has signed a distribution agreement with Altima, a Japanese electronics distributor, the company said.

September 12, 2012

Large 3D imaging lab runs a high volume with efficiency

By Cynthia E. Keen

NEW YORK CITY - There aren't many hospitals that have 3D imaging services the size of the lab at Massachusetts General Hospital. Director Gordon Harris, PhD, described the lab's operation and its teleradiology 3D service at this week's New York Medical Imaging Informatics Symposium.

September 12, 2012

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