Clinical News: Page 1770

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

U-Systems lands final clearance for somo.v for dense breasts

By Erik L. Ridley

Automated breast ultrasound technology developer U-Systems has become the first vendor to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance to market a device specifically for use in screening women with dense breasts.

September 17, 2012

RaySearch lands RayStation order

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation therapy firm RaySearch has receive an order from First Coast Oncology in Jacksonville, FL.

September 17, 2012

Navidea launches phase II trial

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiopharmaceutical developer Navidea Biopharmaceutical has enrolled the first patient in a phase II trial of its fluorine-18 NAV4694 radiopharmaceutical candidate, which is designed as an aid in detecting cerebral beta-amyloid plaque in subjects diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's disease.

September 17, 2012

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