Clinical News: Page 2705

SonoSite buys LumenVu
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Compact-ultrasound developer SonoSite of Bothell, WA, has acquired LumenVu, a privately held company in Philadelphia that has developed a new technology for improving the accuracy of catheter placement.
July 30, 2007
Biofield licenses rights to Hong Kong firm's CAD
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast technology developer Biofield of King of Prussia, PA, has licensed rights to its breast cancer detection technology to MacKay Group of Hong Kong.
July 30, 2007
Interest surges in use of imaging for tracking radiation therapy
By Kathlyn Stone
MINNEAPOLIS - How will the imaging community respond to the challenge of quantitative imaging for treatment response? That was the question that multiple speakers set out to answer in a symposium at last week's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting. MRI, PET, and SPECT are all being thoroughly scrutinized in order to meet the increasing demand for noninvasive imaging biomarkers that can not only customize treatment, but also track treatment response.
July 30, 2007
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Computer-assisted MR guidance improves prostate biopsy
By Eric Barnes
An automated prostate biopsy system based on real-time guidance with high-field MRI earned high scores for accuracy and image quality, according to German researchers. They found that using a transgluteal needle approach to the prostate with the patient prone was accurate and safe when used in combination with the pneumatically driven needle positioning system.
July 30, 2007
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Siemens gets IND for study of FLT tracer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions has received an investigational new drug exemption from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct a phase I clinical trial of a new radiopharmaceutical for cancer detection.
July 29, 2007
AccuBoost lands Texas install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy developer AccuBoost of Billerica, MA, has installed one of its systems at Texas Cancer Clinic (TCC) in San Antonio.
July 29, 2007
Varian opens factory in Beijing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy developer Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, CA, has opened a new manufacturing plant in Beijing.
July 29, 2007
AuntMinnie.com Molecular Imaging Insider
By Wayne Forrest
July 29, 2007
AuntMinnie.com MRI Insider
By Shalmali Pal
July 29, 2007
Emergency bedside US may not rule out appendicitis
By Erik L. Ridley
While it does offer fairly high specificity, bedside ultrasound for appendicitis (BUSA) by emergency physicians can't be relied upon to diagnose acute cases, according to researchers from the University of California - Irvine Medical Center in Orange, CA.
July 29, 2007
PACS data-mining technique tackles CR dose creep
By Brian Casey
Looking for a way to deal with dose creep resulting from your digital x-ray systems? If you have a PACS, the solution to the problem might be as close as your data archive, according to a group from the University of Washington in Seattle. They implemented a software application that mines data from their PACS archive to help monitor computed radiography (CR) radiation dose, cutting the dose nearly in half for some applications.
July 29, 2007
SIR warns of 40% payment cut for IR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) is warning members of new federal legislation that it claims could result in reimbursement cuts of up to 40% for minimally invasive surgical procedures, including interventional radiology.
July 26, 2007
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