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AuntMinnie.com Cardiac Imaging Insider

By Eric Barnes

May 20, 2007

Mansfield honored at namesake ISMRM lecture

BERLIN - Currently recovering from surgery, Sir Peter Mansfield was unable to deliver a lecture on acoustic noise at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), according to Peter Gordon Morris, PhD, head of the Sir Peter Mansfield MR Centre at the University of Nottingham, U.K. Instead, Morris offered an overview of Mansfield's contributions to the field of MR during his talk Monday.

May 20, 2007

Canon hits DR mark

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Digital radiography vendor Canon Medical Systems has installed its 1,500th DR system in the U.S.

May 20, 2007

Siemens taps Löscher as new CEO

German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG has named Peter Löscher as its new president and CEO, replacing Klaus Kleinfeld, who announced in April that he is stepping down.

May 20, 2007

Presurgical fMRI for tumor resection: Are we there yet?

By Shalmali Pal

BERLIN - In theory, functional MRI offers the ultimate noninvasive, presurgical management tool for brain tumor resection. In practice, fMRI techniques have a way to go before they can be as accurate as intraoperative cortical stimulation (ICS), according to Dr. Stefan Sunaert, Ph.D., from the University Hospital of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. Sunaert discussed some of the strengths and weaknesses of fMRI for brain tumor mapping in a talk Sunday at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting.

May 20, 2007

Hologic to buy Cytyc in $6.2 billion deal that unites women's health companies

By Brian Casey

Hologic of Bedford, MA, made an aggressive move to expand into new sectors of the women's health market by announcing an agreement to acquire Cytyc, a Marlborough, MA, firm that makes Pap smear tests and other women's health products.

May 20, 2007