Clinical News: Page 2407

Mammographers must step up to manage high-risk patients
By Cynthia E. Keen
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - Women who have a high risk of developing breast cancer need to be identified. But which healthcare professional has this responsibility? And once a high-risk patient is identified, who's responsible for managing her care? The topic was very much on the collective minds of breast imaging specialists at the Society of Breast Imaging's biannual meeting this week.
April 29, 2009
IDSI appoints managing director for India
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
CT laser mammography developer Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI) has hired a managing director for India.
April 29, 2009
Varian reports Q2 sales growth
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems reported decreases in revenue and net earnings for the second quarter of 2009.
April 29, 2009
SharpView touts image-enhancing software results
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish firm SharpView, a partner of ContextVision, has received welcome clinical results from Massachusetts General Hospital that suggest its image-enhancing software helps reduce CT radiation dose.
April 29, 2009
CT perfusion catches stroke cases that CTA misses
By Charlene Laino
SEATTLE - CT perfusion imaging with a 64-slice scanner is highly useful in evaluating patients with acute stroke, detecting abnormalities in nearly a third of patients in whom no occlusion is identified on conventional CT angiography (CTA), researchers reported at the 2009 American Academy of Neurology meeting.
April 29, 2009
VC's high positive predictive value important for colonoscopy follow-up
By Eric Barnes
If virtual colonoscopy is to function effectively as a screening tool, it must not only deliver consistently high sensitivity for clinically relevant lesions, but also show a low number of false positives and a high degree of concordance with optical colonoscopy. Fortunately, VC appears to be keeping its end of the bargain, according to new research.
April 29, 2009
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AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Insider
By Kate Madden Yee
April 29, 2009
MRI helps find fractures among elderly female ED patients
By Wayne Forrest
BOSTON - Emergency department (ED) physicians should strongly consider MRI scans for elderly female patients who present with complaints of pelvic or hip pain, according to a presentation at this week's American Roentgen Ray Society meeting.
April 28, 2009
Indian firm launches upgraded DR product
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Indian medical device developer Nucleotech Medical Systems International of Mumbai has launched the third generation of its digital radiography (DR) technology.
April 28, 2009
Philips launches wireless DR detector
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare has begun U.S. shipments of a wireless digital radiography (DR) detector.
April 28, 2009
FDA clears proton positioning system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications and partner ProCure Treatment Centers have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared a patient positioning system for proton therapy systems marketed by the companies.
April 28, 2009
Q2 sales, profit grow at Siemens
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
German industrial giant Siemens reported growth in sales and profit at its Siemens Healthcare division this week, but said that the healthcare market's outlook remains poor.
April 28, 2009
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