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MRI Interventions nets patent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MRI-guided interventional technology developer MRI Interventions (formerly SurgiVision) has received another patent for its MRI-guided medical procedure technology.

June 18, 2012

Judicial panel hears Juweid case

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The case of suspended University of Iowa radiology professor Dr. Malik Juweid flared back up again during a June 15 hearing to consider whether Juweid should be disciplined for allegations that he threatened coworkers and violated patient privacy laws.

June 18, 2012

Waiting period expires for Hologic's Gen-Probe buy

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Women's imaging vendor Hologic said that the initial 30-day waiting period required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act has expired without a request for additional information from the Federal Trade Commission.

June 18, 2012

Siemens gets clearance for Definition Edge

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its Somatom Definition Edge single-source CT scanner.

June 18, 2012

China color ultrasound market heats up

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Thanks to extensive reform to healthcare services and improved local supplier offerings, demand for color ultrasound is surging in China, according to a new report from market research firm InMedica.

June 18, 2012

Training bolsters MRI reading accuracy for appendicitis

By Wayne Forrest

Proper training and guidance from more-experienced radiologists can improve the diagnostic accuracy of less-experienced readers in evaluating abdominal MR images for acute appendicitis, according to a study published online June 14 in Radiology.

June 18, 2012

Endocrine society advises DEXA for at-risk men

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Endocrine Society has included bone densitometry testing in its clinical practice guidelines for managing osteoporosis in at-risk men.

June 18, 2012

CT screening of COPD patients could boost cancer detection

By James Brice

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may carry a high enough risk for lung cancer to qualify them along with middle-aged smokers for annual low-dose CT lung cancer screenings -- even though they aren't covered under recently released guidelines.

June 18, 2012

ISCT: Dose-reduction technique explores reader perceptions

By Eric Barnes

SAN FRANCISCO - An evolving CT dose-reduction technique looks beyond simulated image noise as a measure of image quality, and instead aims to optimize dose based on what the radiologist needs to see, according to a presentation on Monday at the International Society for Computed Tomography (ISCT) annual meeting.

June 17, 2012

FFDM fails to lower missed-cancer percentage, study shows

By Kate Madden Yee, Erik L. Ridley

Full-field digital mammography (FFDM) does not improve upon the performance of film-screen mammography, at least in terms of the percentage of missed interval and screening-detected cancers, Norwegian researchers reported in a study published online June 14 in Radiology.

June 17, 2012

Toshiba touts CT study at ISCT

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Toshiba America Medical Systems said that a study to be presented on Monday at the International Society for Computed Tomography (ISCT) meeting in San Francisco found that its adaptive iterative dose reconstruction (AIDR) 3D software can lower dose while maintaining CT image quality.

June 17, 2012

RTOG names TRP subcommittee liaisons

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) has named James Hodge, PhD, as the liaison for the Translational Research Program (TRP) Committee's new immunomodulation subcommittee and Peter Houghton, PhD, as liaison for TRP's sarcoma subcommittee.

June 17, 2012

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