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FDA clears GE FFDM unit for mobile use

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its Senographe Essential full-field digital mammography (FFDM) system for mobile use.

August 21, 2007

Varian nets Dutch order

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, CA, will supply advanced radiotherapy equipment to the Dr. Bernard Verbeeten Institute (BVI) in Tilburg, Netherlands.

August 21, 2007

iCRco moves to new headquarters

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Computed radiography (CR) vendor iCRco of Torrance, CA, has moved into a new 75,000-sq-ft facility, doubling the size of its previous location.

August 21, 2007

E-Z-EM launches blood analyzer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Contrast and virtual colonoscopy developer E-Z-EM of Lake Success, NY, is planning to begin commercial shipments of a new blood analyzer for use with imaging procedures.

August 21, 2007

Presence of osteoarthritis influences bone bruise prognosis

By Shalmali Pal

Bone bruises are thought to result from microfractures of the medullar trabeculae. They are often radiographically occult and hidden on arthroscopy. In a new paper in the September issue of American Journal of Roentgenology, Dutch radiologists looked at whether the natural course of bone bruises, as seen on MRI, had any prognostic value.

August 21, 2007

Ground-glass lung nodules need extra scrutiny

By Eric Barnes

Ground-glass opacities (GGOs) are different from solid nodules found at thoracic CT, and they need more frequent follow-up. Dr. Ella Kazerooni of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor recently reviewed the why and how of GGOs, a troublesome result of CT screening that radiologists are encountering more frequently as more smokers and former smokers are screened.

August 21, 2007