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Japan expands CyberKnife uses
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Accuray has received approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to market its CyberKnife G4 robotic radiosurgery system in Japan to treat tumors noninvasively anywhere in the body, including the head and neck.
August 3, 2010
MR spectroscopy with MRI detects prostate cancer recurrence
By Wayne Forrest
Combining MR spectroscopy with T2-weighted MR imaging "significantly improves" the diagnostic accuracy of endorectal MRI to detect locally recurrent prostate cancer after external-beam radiation therapy, according to a study in the August issue of Radiology.
August 3, 2010
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Enhanced reference standard boosts CTA accuracy
By Eric Barnes
Borrowing a technique from the virtual colonoscopy playbook, researchers from South Carolina and Germany found that coronary CT angiography (CTA) is better than previously thought compared to catheter-based coronary angiography -- in fact the two tests are essentially equivalent, they said.
August 3, 2010
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Carestream completes DRX install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health has installed a Carestream DRX-Evolution dual-detector digital radiography (DR) room in the accident and emergency department at Worthing Hospital in West Sussex, U.K.
August 2, 2010
GenSpera inks patent deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GenSpera has acquired a patent application from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark for imaging technology that incorporates derivatives of thapsigargin.
August 2, 2010
Italray nets 2 DRF orders
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Italian x-ray vendor Italray has received two orders for its Clinodigit Omega DRF system.
August 2, 2010
Medrad signs distribution pact
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Contrast injector technology firm Medrad has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with WFR-Aquaplast/Qfix Systems for the company's Pro-Tekt endorectal balloon device.
August 2, 2010
MGH develops EMR search tool
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston have developed an advanced search tool designed to help radiologists and other physicians extract useful data from a patient's electronic medical record (EMR), according to the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
August 2, 2010
Simultaneous PET/MRI creates diagnostic-quality images
By Wayne Forrest
Structural, functional, and molecular imaging of patients with brain tumors is feasible with diagnostic imaging quality using simultaneous hybrid PET/MR image acquisition, according to a study in the August issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
August 2, 2010
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CT brings struggles of Red Sea coral to surface
By Nicole Pettit
Though global warming may remain a popular topic of debate, its damage to a major coral species in the Red Sea is clear to a group of U.S. researchers, thanks to CT. By adapting 3D CT techniques to examine Diploastrea heliopora, they found that growth of the coral has declined by 30% since 1998.
August 2, 2010
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Hologic grows sales, though profit slips
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women's healthcare vendor Hologic reported 4% growth in revenue for the company's third fiscal quarter, although net income fell slightly.
August 1, 2010
Positron reports lower debt
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Molecular imaging developer Positron is reporting that it has significantly reduced its debt levels.
August 1, 2010
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