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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
Fahey becomes SNMMI president
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Frederic Fahey, DSc, has taken the reins as president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) for the next 12 months.
June 17, 2012
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Federal suit names Fla. radiation oncologists, hospitals
By Cynthia E. Keen
Two radiation oncologists who run the radiation therapy departments at one hospital and a large multispecialty clinic in Pensacola have been hit with federal charges that they billed Medicare and other government healthcare agencies for procedures without providing supervision as required by federal law. The hospital and clinic have also been named as defendants in the case.
June 17, 2012
Study shows patients unclear about radiologists' role
By Kate Madden Yee
Radiologists may be the critical link between ordering physicians and patients, but their role is not clearly understood by the patient population -- and that's bad news for the ongoing vitality of the profession, according to a new study published in this month's Academic Radiology.
June 17, 2012
Colonoscopy linked to lower cancer mortality
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Comparing patients who died from colorectal cancer with a larger control group, researchers writing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that those who had undergone optical colonoscopy were far less likely to have died.
June 14, 2012
EEG, fMRI help predict early PTSD
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers at Tel Aviv University are using functional MRI (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to identify people who are more susceptible to longstanding disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) if exposed to a traumatic event.
June 14, 2012
Report ties keepsake ultrasound to fetal gender tests in Canada
By Rosemary Frei
An investigative report has caused a stir in Canada after it revealed that keepsake ultrasound clinics are willing to provide the gender of fetuses before 20 weeks of gestation. This is early enough for women to request an abortion and feeds into the phenomenon of female feticide in some immigrant communities in Canada.
June 14, 2012
Postmortem CT shows cause of death after acute chest pain
By Eric Barnes
Postmortem CT angiography combined with image-guided biopsy can nearly always determine the cause of death in patients who succumb after acute chest pain, a question that has often gone unanswered, according to a Swiss study published in Radiology.
June 14, 2012
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AuntMinnie.com CT Insider
By Eric Barnes
June 13, 2012
ISCT video stream starts Sunday; more news from SNMMI 2012
By Brian Casey
June 13, 2012
Integrated Diagnostics creates PET probe unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Integrated Diagnostics has launched InDi Imaging, an operating division designed to create a new generation of PET imaging probes using the company's protein-catalyzed capture agent technology.
June 13, 2012
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