Clinical News: Page 2722

Viatronix, Medicsight net CE Mark
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Advanced visualization firm Viatronix and computer-aided detection (CAD) partner Medicsight of London have jointly released their integrated virtual colonoscopy CAD offering in Europe.
June 12, 2007
Trixell expands production capacity
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
French x-ray component supplier Thales Electron Devices has expanded the production capacity of its Trixell digital radiography (DR) division at the unit's facility in Moirans.
June 12, 2007
Aurora launches breast MRI hotline
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast MRI developer Aurora Imaging Technology has launched a new hotline for users to get information on reimbursement for breast MRI procedures.
June 12, 2007
Acusphere to raise $20 million
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound contrast developer Acusphere said it intends to raise $20 million in a "registered direct" stock offering to institutional investors.
June 12, 2007
Core Oncology buys Mills brachytherapy unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Core Oncology of Santa Barbara, CA, has completed its acquisition of brachytherapy technology developer Mills Biopharmaceuticals from the division's previous owner, Coloplast.
June 12, 2007
Breast radiotherapy studies propose shorter treatment, confirm lack of cardiac risk
By Shalmali Pal
The toxicity associated with radiation therapy for breast cancer is the focus of two new papers. In the first, Philadelphia-based researchers tightened up the radiotherapy course length, partly in an effort to reduce skin toxicity. And in the second, the authors investigated if radiation treatment increased the risk of cardiac toxicity.
June 12, 2007
GE launches US data management
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has launched a new ultrasound data management system for vascular labs.
June 12, 2007
Renal artery size varies widely; stent filters don't fit
By Eric Barnes
A review of abdominal multidetector-row CT (MDCT) angiograms found significant size differences between left and right renal arteries, between men and women, and between patients. These differences have serious implications for the increasingly common use of distal filtering devices to prevent distal atheroembolization after percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty (PTRA). The devices are designed for carotid and coronary arteries, and more often than not don't fit, according to the study authors.
June 12, 2007
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MRI features of larger lesions predict malignancy in cirrhotic liver
By Radiology Review
(Radiology Review) MRI T1-weighted hypointense lesions on unenhanced in-phase images and T2-weighted hyperintensity or arterial hypervascularity are highly suggestive of malignancy in patients with liver cirrhosis, according to a study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
June 12, 2007
Virtual colonoscopy finds cancers outside the colon
By Brian Casey
June 11, 2007
ContextVision signs OEM contracts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish image enhancement developer ContextVision has signed three long-term North American OEM agreements for its GOPView image enhancement software.
June 11, 2007
iCAD signs pact with Agfa
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer iCAD has signed a development and distribution agreement with Mortsel, Belgium-based Agfa HealthCare to provide its SecondLook Digital CAD product for Agfa's full-field digital mammography systems.
June 11, 2007
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