Clinical News: Page 1767

Rapamycin may prevent radiation-induced mucositis

By Cynthia E. Keen

Research scientists from the U.S. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research have discovered a drug that protects stem cells and could prevent cancer patients from developing oral mucositis, or painful inflammation and ulcers in the mouth.

September 6, 2012

Texas hospital installs Carestream mobile x-ray

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

San Antonio's University Hospital is one of the first U.S. centers to install Carestream Health's DRX-Revolution mobile x-ray system.

September 6, 2012

DraxImage, Positron to boost radiopharma supply

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Canadian radiopharmaceutical firm Jubilant DraxImage (JDI) said it is teaming with PET vendor Positron to increase the sourcing and supply of strontium-82 and rubidium-82 generators.

September 6, 2012

Planning APBI treatment for patients with pacemakers

By Cynthia E. Keen

Breast cancer patients with cardiac pacemakers implanted on the same side of the body as the diseased breast may require surgical relocation of the device prior to radiotherapy. However, if the patient qualifies for accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) using high-dose brachytherapy, the surgery might not be necessary.

September 6, 2012

AuntMinnie.com Radiation Oncology Insider

By Cynthia E. Keen

September 5, 2012

$2.8B U.S. market predicted for digital x-ray

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. market for x-ray systems is becoming saturated, with slow growth predicted to lead to a value of $2.8 billion by 2016, according to technology information firm Millennium Research Group.

September 5, 2012

NFL funds $30M in brain research grants

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The National Football League (NFL) will contribute $30 million in medical research funding to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

September 5, 2012

GE partners with Advocate to trim CT dose

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare said it is teaming up with Advocate Health Care in a long-term commitment to reduce radiation dose in diagnostic CT imaging.

September 5, 2012

Nordion posts mixed Q3, 9-month results

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nordion posted mixed results for its third-quarter and nine-month revenues for fiscal 2012.

September 5, 2012

Scannerside aims to bring dose tracking to the masses

By Erik L. Ridley

Radiation dose tracking can be time-consuming and expensive to implement. But a start-up firm called Scannerside aims to make that process easier with a Web-based service that can provide cumulative dose tracking for CT and angiography procedures for all types of medical imaging scanners.

September 5, 2012

NIH awards grant for PET/CT standardization

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year research project grant to the Universities of Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Washington to identify harmonized PET/CT reconstruction parameters for use in clinical trials, according to the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.

September 5, 2012

Viztek debuts wall-mounted Opal-CR II

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Imaging informatics firm Viztek announced it has introduced a wall mounting kit for its Opal-CR II computed radiography unit.

September 5, 2012

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