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Renaissance Ultrasound adds contracts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound system training and clinical applications staffing firm Renaissance Ultrasound has signed three contracts to provide customized ultrasound support.
July 26, 2010
SonoSite posts revenue, earnings gains
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Strong growth in SonoSite's U.S. hospital channel and contributions from recently acquired CardioDynamics helped the compact-ultrasound developer to an 18% increase in second-quarter revenue.
July 26, 2010
Study offers comparison of conebeam breast CT to mammo
By Kate Madden Yee
Conebeam breast CT can image the entire breast from chest wall to nipple with sufficient resolution and at a radiation dose within the range of conventional mammography, according to a new study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
July 26, 2010
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Newer dosimeters find big errors in head CT perfusion doses
By Eric Barnes
Traditional radiation dose measurements are grossly inaccurate for perfusion CT head scans, which are being performed with increasing frequency for patients with suspected stroke, according to a study presented on July 22 at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine meeting in Philadelphia.
July 26, 2010
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BrainLab adds IGRT monitoring
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image-guided therapy firm BrainLab has introduced ExacTrac Infrared Monitoring, a device for monitoring patient position during image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) treatments.
July 25, 2010
Myocardial echo bests SPECT in assessing hibernating myocardium
By Erik L. Ridley
Myocardial contrast echocardiography can outperform SPECT for assessing hibernating myocardium in ischemic cardiomyopathy, London researchers report in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.
July 25, 2010
Double readers top CAD in finding breast tissue deformities
By Kate Madden Yee
A single reader using a computer-aided detection (CAD) system won't find parenchymal deformities in screening mammograms as well as double readers, according to new data from the Computer-Aided Detection Evaluation Trial II (CADET II) published in the August issue of Radiology.
July 25, 2010
Bard sales climb in Q2
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology provider C. R. Bard has posted financial results for the second quarter of 2010.
July 22, 2010
GE, Varian collaborate in India
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) has announced that it will open 10 cancer treatment centers by June 2011 to meet the growing need for diagnostic and treatment cancer facilities in rural India. The majority of the financing for the $45 million investment is being provided by GE Healthcare South Asia and Varian Medical Systems as part of a strategic partnership with KIMS.
July 22, 2010
Report: Senator delays isotope bill
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Sen. Christopher Bond (R-MO) reportedly continues to delay debate in the U.S. Congress on the American Medical Isotopes Production Act, asserting that the bill designed to promote the production of medical isotopes in the U.S. could have the opposite effect.
July 22, 2010
Resolution calculation measures digital detector performance
By James Brice
A fast and easy way of calculating digital x-ray resolution promises to give medical physicists a better measure of digital radiography performance, according to a presentation at this week's American Association of Physicists in Medicine meeting.
July 22, 2010
3T MRI aids success of surgical meniscus repairs
By Wayne Forrest
With 3-tesla MR images to help determine the appropriate surgical technique, patients who undergo longitudinal meniscus repairs can return to a high level of function at long-term follow-up, according to a study presented last week at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's annual meeting.
July 22, 2010
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