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Toshiba touts new Infinix VF-i outfit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems is displaying its Infinix VF-i biplane x-ray system at this year's American College of Cardiology meeting in Atlanta.
March 14, 2010
Stress leads to more heart attacks among police, firefighters
By Eric Barnes
Police officers and firefighters are far more likely than the general population to suffer heart attacks or sudden cardiac death on the job. But their coronary CT calcium scores don't differ all that much from those of the general population, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Atlanta.
March 14, 2010
Women sent to cath lab twice as often as men
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women with stable chest pain are twice as likely to be sent for invasive angiography as men with the same symptoms, according to a new study presented Sunday at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting in Atlanta.
March 14, 2010
Calcium findings on abdominal CT linked to heart attack risk
By Edward Susman
ATLANTA - The presence of calcified aortic plaques -- often spotted as incidental findings on CT scans -- appear to be strong predictors of coronary artery disease and mortality, researchers reported at this week's American College of Cardiology meeting.
March 14, 2010
Best Theratronics plans cyclotron production
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Best Theratronics has announced plans to manufacture a range of cyclotrons and locate them around the world for the production of diagnostic and therapeutic medical isotopes.
March 14, 2010
Diagnosoft Plus v2.5 debuts at ACC
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image analysis software firm Diagnosoft will launch Diagnosoft v2.5 at this week's American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting in Atlanta.
March 14, 2010
Elekta posts 9% sales gain
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish oncology firm Elekta achieved a 9% gain in net sales for the first nine months of fiscal year 2010.
March 14, 2010
SPIE: New uses for focused ultrasound to treat brain diseases defined
By Tami Freeman
Focused ultrasound therapy can noninvasively deliver targeted energy deep into the body with precision. Adding MR imaging enables real-time guidance and visualization of heating and ablation effects. And while the technique may not traditionally be associated with brain treatments, focused ultrasound could prove a perfect fit for treating a range of brain diseases.
March 14, 2010
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FDG-PET falls short in assessing some para-aortic lymph node metastases
By Wayne Forrest
While FDG-PET performs well in detecting para-aortic lymph node (PALN) metastasis among patients with a relatively high probability of the disease, the modality falls short in evaluating para-aortic lymph nodes based solely on cervical cancer, according to a new study in the March Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
March 14, 2010
Varian to fill U.K. Clinac order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has received an order for two Clinac iX accelerators with RapidArc capability from the Kent Oncology Centre in the U.K.
March 11, 2010
WSJ: Philips mulls bid for Hologic
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A March 11 article in the Wall Street Journal highlighting rumors that multimodality vendor Philips Healthcare might buy women's imaging company Hologic has led to a surge in the latter's stock price.
March 11, 2010
AECL delays NRU restart to May
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) again has delayed the restart of its National Research Universal (NRU) nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario.
March 11, 2010
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