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Illinois AG joins leasing suit against MRI centers

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Illinois attorney general has joined a whistleblower lawsuit against several imaging center companies in the Chicago area, charging them with paying kickbacks to referring doctors under cover of phony equipment leasing arrangements.

January 17, 2007

New tracer shows promise for PET/CT prostate imaging

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

One in six men in the U.S. will get prostate cancer during his lifetime, according to recent data. Unfortunately, conventional imaging techniques are limited for detecting, staging, and restaging this carcinoma. But a study by scientists at Emory University in Atlanta and researchers in Japan finds that a new radiotracer shows promse in evaluating and staging prostate cancer.

January 17, 2007

Multiple MR protocols pose triple threat in prostate cancer screening

By Shalmali Pal

Prostate cancer screening with a combination of MR techniques can accurately detect and localize prostate cancer -- and possibly avoid needless biopsy, according to researchers from Tokyo. They used three different image interpretation protocols and found that each one offered something unique in prostate cancer detection.

January 17, 2007

AuntMinnie.com MarketStat #46: Cath lab device budgets for 2006

As of IMV's 2006 Cardiac Cath Census Survey, 21% of the cath labs had device budgets of less than $200K, 23% had $200K-$599K budgets, 13% had $600K-$999K budgets, and 43% had device budgets of $1 million or more.

January 17, 2007

AuntMinnie.com Digital X-Ray Insider

By Brian Casey

January 16, 2007

Siemens to acquire GSD

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Siemens Medical Solutions has agreed to purchase longtime partner Gesellschaft fur Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen (GSD), a German developer of health information systems.

January 16, 2007