Clinical News: Page 2717

Sectra signs Polish distributor

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography provider Sectra has inked a distribution agreement with Polish imaging products distributor Edo Med.

June 24, 2007

PDI inks CR deal with Radlink

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Imaging services firm Precise Diagnostic Imaging (PDI) has signed an agreement making computed radiography (CR) developer Radlink of Redondo Beach, CA, as the exclusive provider of CR systems to PDI facilities.

June 24, 2007

Automated analysis tools vary in pulmonary nodule measurements

By Erik L. Ridley

Different automated analysis tools vary in determining the size of pulmonary nodules, according to a multi-institutional research group. With data from a lung nodule detection study, the researchers used commercially available automated analysis packages to quantify the variations in nodule maximum diameter and volume among the different software tools. They found maximum dimension is an unreliable marker of tumor size, even when using automated analysis software.

June 24, 2007

Fully automated VC CAD system solves tagging problems

By Eric Barnes

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have built a computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme that can find polyps in tagged virtual colonoscopy images, without getting bogged down by the oral contrast.

June 24, 2007

Firm launches breast MRI enhancement device

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image Engineering Laboratories of Avondale, PA, has launched a new device developed to improve the image quality of breast MRI studies.

June 21, 2007

Philips launches 3D TEE probe at ASE show

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Philips Medical Systems of Andover, MA, launched a new ultrasound probe for 3D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) at this week's American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) conference in Seattle.

June 21, 2007

Hologic to buy mammo pad firm BioLucent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Hologic of Bedford, MA, is continuing its acquisition spree. The company yesterday announced that it plans to buy BioLucent, the developer of the MammoPad breast cushion device.

June 21, 2007

CMS, Toshiba collaborate on Idaho installation

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation treatment planning firm CMS of St. Louis is partnering with Tustin, CA-based Toshiba America Medical Systems to provide imaging and virtual simulation technology to St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute (MSTI) in Boise, ID.

June 21, 2007

NVIDIA introduces new GPUs

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Graphic-processor developer NVIDIA of Santa Clara, CA, has unveiled a new class of processors based on a new graphics-processing unit (GPU) that will benefit some radiology applications.

June 21, 2007

CT, MR, CR, and digital mammo are critical to archive storage forecasts

By Wayne Forrest

Which modalities are the biggest storage hogs for archive storage? Computed tomography (CT), computed radiography (CR), MRI, and digital mammography, according to the information systems group at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Eugene Mah, a MUSC medical physicist, and colleages reviewed 11 years' worth of data in the medical school's PACS to determine how much archive storage space different modalities required, and developed a model to forecast future storage needs.

June 21, 2007

Correlating symptoms with lumbar spine MR: Challenges to the radiologist and referring clinician

Degenerative and herniated disks may lead to potentially disabling disorders and greatly reduce the quality of life of a significant proportion of the population. For the referring clinician, MRI can differentiate between normal age-related disk changes and pathological disks. Chiropractor Dr. Gerald Anzalone offers a primer on disk morphology, as well as some tips for imaging professionals on the information clinicians hope to gain from an MR exam.

June 21, 2007

Aurora completes Washington installation

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Aurora Imaging Technology of North Andover, MA, has installed its Aurora 1.5-tesla dedicated breast MRI system at Overlake Breast MRI (OBMRI) in Bellevue, WA.

June 20, 2007

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