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Ga. mammo tech indicted; radiation risk and pregnant women
By Brian Casey
September 8, 2010
Siemens readies preclinical additions
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare is showing a number of new enhancements to its Inveon preclinical imaging platform at this week's World Molecular Imaging Congress in Kyoto, Japan.
September 8, 2010
BK unveils surgical US scanner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Analogic subsidiary BK Medical has added a surgical ultrasound system to its Flex Focus line.
September 8, 2010
Radiologists identify and treat 'self-embedding' teens
By Cynthia E. Keen
Using ultrasound and a minimally invasive procedure, radiologists can identify and treat patients who engage in a self-injury behavior known as self-embedding, according to a study published online September 7 in Radiology.
September 8, 2010
Technologist indicted over false mammo results
By Kate Madden Yee
A radiologic technologist at a Georgia hospital has been indicted on 20 charges of submitting false mammogram results by marking mammography studies as completed even though they hadn't been reviewed by a physician.
September 8, 2010
Study finds VC cost-effective if tiny polyps are ignored
By Eric Barnes
Virtual colonoscopy is cost-effective for colorectal cancer screening, assuming that only patients with polyps 6 mm or larger are referred for polypectomy, a new French study has concluded. Removing the smallest lesions is not only prohibitively expensive, the yield in terms of additional cancer is minimal.
September 8, 2010
Midtreatment boost during WBRT reduces skin dermatitis
By Cynthia E. Keen
A radiation boost scheduled midway through whole-breast radiation therapy (WBRT) for breast cancer patients significantly reduced the occurrence of grade III dermatitis, according to a study published in the August 1 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.
September 8, 2010
CT and nuclear med radiation doses pose minimal risk to fetus
By Cynthia E. Keen
When a pregnant woman needs to undergo a CT or nuclear medicine procedure, the risk that her fetus will develop cancer as a child is less than one-tenth of 1%, according to a population-based cohort study of 1.8 million maternal-child pairs living in Ontario, Canada.
September 7, 2010
AllPro debuts body/dental CR system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Digital imaging technology developer AllPro Imaging has debuted ScanX Quantum, a computed radiography (CR) system capable of handling both dental and medical radiography.
September 7, 2010
New Monte Carlo sources enable high-resolution simulations of RT
By Tami Freeman
Advanced radiation therapy (RT) modalities employ sophisticated dose calculation engines for treatment planning. As such, Monte Carlo simulations could prove invaluable for patient-specific treatment plan quality assurance of these complex beam delivery techniques.
September 7, 2010
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Advanced CT may have role in noncalcified plaque assessment
By Eric Barnes
Advanced MDCT scanning may be ready to play an important role in assessing noncalcified coronary artery plaque, say German researchers, who used a 256-detector-row scanner and plaque-volume measurement software to compare interobserver variability in patients with different types of plaque.
September 7, 2010
AuntMinnie.com Ultrasound Insider
By Erik L. Ridley
September 6, 2010
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