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SPECT/CT improves sentinel node detection in overweight breast cancer patients
By Shalmali Pal
Excessive weight and a high body mass index (BMI) pose a host of complications in breast cancer patients. Nuclear medicine specialists have proposed using SPECT/CT in these women to improve sentinel node identification and spatial resolution, as well as overall image quality. SPECT/CT results in this population can directly affect surgical management, according to a study in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
February 13, 2007
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MR colonography reveals significant extracolonic findings
By Eric Barnes
MRI has joined the parade of extracolonic findings detected at virtual colonoscopy, in a study of 375 symptomatic individuals in Germany. In evaluating dark-lumen MR colonography (MRC) for assessing extracolonic organs, researchers from University Hospital Essen found clinically significant findings in 12% of their cohort.
February 13, 2007
IDC, VirtuRad team up on install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Digital radiography vendor Imaging Dynamics and Phoenix-based VirtuRad have partnered in the delivery of digital imaging capabilities to a Santa Monica, CA-based orthopedic group.
February 12, 2007
TomoTherapy plans IPO
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm TomoTherapy has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) of shares of its common stock.
February 12, 2007
Agfa readies new printer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare will be introducing a new tabletop printer at next month's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) meeting in Vienna.
February 11, 2007
ISET talks stress imaging know-how in AAA endograft, relative safety of UFE
By Edward Susman
Interventionalists who perform endograft procedures to correct abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) can't afford to "scrimp" on their understanding of imaging if they are going to choose the right modality for their patients, according to a presentation at the 2007 International Symposium on Endovascular Technology (ISET). Other talks at the meeting focused on the safety of uterine fibroid embolization (UFE).
February 11, 2007
Ultrasound -- with liberty and justice for whom?
By Dr. Lars Thorelius
AuntMinnie.com presents a critique of ultrasound in clinical practice by Dr. Lars Thorelius, a radiologist at Linköping University Hospital in Sweden. Thorelius charges that ultrasound's increasingly minor role is a result of poor management and training, rather than any shortcomings in the modality.
February 11, 2007
Study: U.S. medical device market will reach $246 billion
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Dublin-based Research and Markets estimates that the U.S. medical device and equipment market will be worth $246 billion by 2011.
February 8, 2007
Elekta to install Gamma Knife in London
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta of Stockholm will install its Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion at the London Gamma Knife Centre in the U.K.
February 8, 2007
Fonar reports drop in Q2 revenues
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI vendor Fonar of Melville, NY, attributes a slowdown in capital equipment purchases for a decline in revenues in its second quarter (end-December 31) of fiscal 2007.
February 8, 2007
GE grants license to Applied Biosystems
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has completed a license agreement with Applied Biosystems granting the Foster City, CA, company GE's patents for the biomagnetic isolation of nucleic acids.
February 8, 2007
AFP posts profitable Q2
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Digital x-ray device developer AFP Imaging of Elmsford, NY, reported a growth in revenues for the company's 2007 fiscal second quarter, as well as a nearly 100% gain in net income.
February 8, 2007
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