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TechniScan begins phase II warm bath US study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast ultrasound imaging developer TechniScan has begun phase II of its grant study for its warm bath ultrasound system at the University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
March 8, 2010
UltraSPECT products support T1-201 imaging
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm UltraSPECT announced that its two cardiac products, Xpress.Cardiac and Xpert3.Cardiac, will support thallium (Tl-201) imaging.
March 8, 2010
Report: Sonographer training lacking in Eastern Europe
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
More than half of cardiologists surveyed across Russia and Eastern Europe had not received training on how to get the best use of their ultrasound imaging equipment, according to a new survey from market research firm InMedica.
March 8, 2010
ECR 2010: Reducing CT dose; eyeing mild contrast reactions; managing malpractice
By Brian Casey
March 8, 2010
Thales unveils new detector
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
French technology company Thales Group unveiled a new digital detector at the recent European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, Austria.
March 7, 2010
Hologic debuts upright biopsy at ECR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
VIENNA - A new digital upright biopsy system, called Affirm, was among the new product launches at this week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) meeting in Vienna by women's imaging vendor Hologic of Bedford, MA.
March 7, 2010
Organ-based tube-current modulation cuts breast dose
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Radiation doses to the breast can be cut by nearly 40% using a new organ-based dose modulation technique in combination with a noise-optimized image reconstruction method. The two techniques must be used together if the resulting images are to remain readable, researchers reported.
March 7, 2010
CMS OKs F-18 NaF imaging coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved coverage of F-18 sodium fluoride (F-18 NaF) PET and PET/CT imaging to identify bone metastasis of cancer under certain conditions.
March 7, 2010
Breast MRI CAD yields high sensitivity, specificity
By Erik L. Ridley
VIENNA - Breast MRI computer-aided detection (CAD) technology can effectively distinguish between benign and malignant lesions, according to research from Germany presented at the 2010 European Congress of Radiology.
March 7, 2010
Interpretation errors top clinical negligence claims in U.K.
By Rob Skelding
VIENNA - Compared with the U.S., the U.K. is perhaps not seen as a strongly litigious country, but a new analysis of clinical negligence claims in radiology presented at the European Congress of Radiology reveals a clear rise in recent years in the number and financial burden of malpractice suits.
March 7, 2010
Toshiba sponsors Speckle Tracking by Echo substudy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems is sponsoring a coronary heart disease study with its wall motion tracking ultrasound technology, the company said.
March 7, 2010
Economical DR, extremity MRI among GE ECR highlights
By Brian Casey
VIENNA - A new digital radiography (DR) system designed for developing markets and a recently acquired extremity MRI scanner are among the highlights in the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) booth of multimodality vendor GE Healthcare.
March 7, 2010
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