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Quantitative stress echo can reliably find coronary artery disease
By Erik L. Ridley
Quantitative stress echocardiography with contrast-based myocardial blood flow measurements can successfully detect coronary artery disease, according to research published online in Heart.
August 17, 2008
Research finds no significant difference in image scrolling methods
By Erik L. Ridley
Radiologists performing stack mode image viewing should be provided a variety of methods to navigate through the image slices, allowing them to choose the technique that works best for them, according to researchers from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.
August 17, 2008
FDG-PET may help detect infection in knee prostheses
By Wayne Forrest
FDG-PET is showing early promise in accurately detecting infected knee prostheses, but researchers caution that more patient samples are needed to verify the imaging technique's efficacy. In a retrospective study, FDG-PET was performed on the affected knees in 52 patients with a painful prosthesis.
August 17, 2008
Xograph completes U.K. install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
U.K. radiology products supplier Xograph Healthcare has installed two digital radiography rooms in the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital.
August 14, 2008
Minrad reports revenue dip in Q2
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional pain management company Minrad International posted slightly lower revenues for its second quarter.
August 14, 2008
MRI evaluation of chest pain cuts acute coronary syndrome
By Eric Barnes
Emergency department physicians improved their ability to predict acute coronary syndrome (ACS) by adding a T2-weighted sequence to their cardiac MRI protocol, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
August 14, 2008
Novel cardiac SPECT system improves attenuation correction
By Wayne Forrest
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and nuclear medicine firm Digirad are developing a new x-ray-based transmission approach for attenuation correction in cardiac SPECT, which shows that high-quality transmission scans can be completed within one minute and with negligible patient dose.
August 14, 2008
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U.S. echo contrast agent use dips in Q2
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The use of echocardiography microbubble contrast agents in the second quarter declined to just 22% of the usage in the U.S. two years ago, according to market research firm Arlington Medical Resources (AMR).
August 13, 2008
Sybermedica's PACSMail provides bridge to China
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
U.K. healthcare software developer Sybermedica said that its PACSMail medical e-mail service is being used to provide an imaging bridge between the U.K. and China during the summer of 2008.
August 13, 2008
Acusphere receives Nasdaq noncompliance notice
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound contrast developer Acusphere has been informed by Nasdaq that it does not comply with the minimum stockholders' equity requirement of $10 million for continued listing on the Nasdaq Global Market.
August 13, 2008
IBA, NeuroSurvival Technologies partner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Belgian radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has signed a collaboration agreement with molecular imaging and therapy developer NeuroSurvival Technologies (NST).
August 13, 2008
RaySearch signs MGH research deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish radiation therapy software developer RaySearch Laboratories has inked a cooperation agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston.
August 12, 2008
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