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Breast cancer risk assessment starts with the right questions
By Kate Madden Yee
To effectively care for women at high risk for breast cancer, screening must become much more tailored, taking into account individual women's risk factors and using additional imaging modalities if necessary, according to a researcher from the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville.
March 22, 2010
Closer follow-up reduces postmammography diagnosis delays
By Kate Madden Yee
For low-income women with abnormal mammograms, using a case management approach for follow-up is an effective tool that can deliver a more timely diagnostic resolution, according to a study published online March 16 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
March 21, 2010
Naviscan teams with Alliance Imaging
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services firm Alliance Imaging will provide positron emission mammography imaging services in Florida through San Diego-based PET developer Naviscan.
March 21, 2010
GE adds two ultrasound execs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has added two imaging veterans to its ultrasound business.
March 21, 2010
Toshiba launches V-TRACE for MRA
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems has introduced variable true rate angiography with combined encodings (V-TRACE), an MR angiography (MRA) sequence available on all Vantage Titan and Vantage Atlas MRI systems.
March 21, 2010
Study offers more nuanced view of U.S. imaging use rates
By Kate Madden Yee
Substantial regional variations in imaging utilization rates exist across the U.S., but the differences are not as high as reported in previous studies, according to new research published in the April issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
March 21, 2010
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Can DBT unseat MRI for screening high-risk women?
By Kate Madden Yee
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has the potential to be a useful tool for screening women with dense breasts. But the fact that it adds more radiation exposure is problematic, especially when compared to MRI, according to a speaker at this week's National Consortium of Breast Centers conference in Las Vegas.
March 21, 2010
SNM warns of 'significant disruptions' in Mo-99 supply
By Wayne Forrest
With a confluence of nuclear reactor shutdowns around the world this week, SNM is warning nuclear medicine practitioners to brace for the "one of the most significant disruptions ever in the supply of molybdenum-99" (Mo-99) from March 21 to April 11.
March 21, 2010
AuntMinnie.com Digital X-Ray Insider
By Brian Casey
March 18, 2010
Siemens' PETNet offers free F-18 NaF
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare will use its PETNet Solutions wholly owned subsidiary and its national network of 47 radiopharmacies to distribute F-18 sodium fluoride (F-18 NaF) free of charge to help alleviate the effects of the global molybdenum shortage.
March 18, 2010
Cascade Tech buys Spectral Molecular
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cascade Technologies has closed on its acquisition of privately held Los Angeles-based medical device developer Spectral Molecular Imaging.
March 18, 2010
Analog Devices debuts data converter for MRI
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Analog Devices has unveiled a new digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that would allow MRI systems to see smaller anatomical structures and abnormalities, such as breast cancer cells.
March 18, 2010
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