Clinical News: Page 2196

Naviscan touts PEM study

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PET developer Naviscan said that a recent study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting showed that its positron emission mammography (PEM) technology helped evaluate response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

May 25, 2010

VisEn debuts new agents

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Optical imaging developer VisEn Medical has introduced two new imaging agents at this week's 2010 European Molecular Imaging Meeting (EMIM) in Warsaw, Poland.

May 25, 2010

Targeson lands supplemental funding

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ultrasound imaging technology developer Targeson is receiving funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health for its kidney disease therapy initiative.

May 25, 2010

Cardiac CT finds resectable lung cancers at wide FOV

By Eric Barnes

Korean radiologists found plenty of unsuspected lung cancers in a large cohort of patients being scanned for heart disease, according to a new study in Radiology. Most lesions were resectable, but most were seen only when the images were read using wider fields-of-view (FOV).

May 25, 2010

Japanese group finds lower VC sensitivity for carpet lesions

By Eric Barnes

Some lateral spreading tumors, more commonly known as carpet lesions, can be hard to spot on virtual colonoscopy, say researchers from Japan, although others say the lesions are readily visible, noting VC's known shortcomings in detecting some flat lesions.

May 25, 2010

Optical imaging deciphers truth within oil painting layers

By Nicole Pettit

How can the hidden past of artwork be revealed without damaging the creation itself? Since 2003, researchers in Poland have been looking to optical coherence tomography for answers, using the technology to detect suspected forgeries in paintings and unearth hidden inscriptions, among other applications.

May 25, 2010