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Danaher buys Imaging Sciences

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Dental equipment firm Danaher has purchased 3D dental imaging developer Imaging Sciences International.

January 3, 2007

Temporal subtraction technique improves diagnostic accuracy, speed

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

Although bone scintigraphy is one of the more widely used nuclear medicine studies, interpreting the images is time-intensive, and detecting interval changes can be problematic. Now researchers from Chicago have developed a computerized temporal subtraction technique used between successive whole-body bone scans that may reduce physicians' reading time and improve their accuracy.

January 3, 2007

Siemens finalizes Bayer buy

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Siemens Medical Solutions has completed its acquisition of Bayer Healthcare's diagnostic division.

January 2, 2007

AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Insider

By Shalmali Pal

January 2, 2007

MRI pegs cognitive dysfunction as noteworthy clinical feature in multisystem APS

By Shalmali Pal

Cerebral microvasculopathy could be an underlying mechanism for cognitive dysfunction, based on MR studies performed in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), according to Greek investigators.

January 2, 2007

CT finds differences in omental infarction between children, adults

By Eric Barnes

Omental infarction is an uncommon cause of severe abdominal pain in both children and adults. It rarely requires surgery, but it can be mistaken for other conditions, such as acute appendicitis, that do need quick intervention. Thus correct diagnosis is critical. Researchers from Pittsburgh examined CT images from omental infarction patients and found predictable patterns and presentations that could speed diagnosis and decision-making, and perhaps avoid unnecessary intervention.

January 2, 2007

MR offers insight into tennis leg injuries

By Brian Casey

January 1, 2007

QSUM expands biopsy product line

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Breast biopsy accessories developer QSUM Biopsy Disposables said it has released new products for the stereotactic, ultrasound, and MR biopsy markets.

January 1, 2007

Philips, Bioscan partner on NanoSPECT marketing

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Philips Medical Systems has signed an agreement giving it the rights to co-market and co-distribute molecular imaging developer Bioscan's NanoSPECT and NanoSPECT/CT devices.

January 1, 2007

MRI proves tennis leg injuries are more than just a racket

By Sydney Schuster

Tennis elbow, sure, but tennis leg? Yes, it exists, and it's not a reference to the endless gams on Maria Sharapova either. Instead, this injury of the medial head of the gastrocnemius can occur when the calf muscle is overstretched. Despite its moniker, tennis leg plagues nonathletes as well. However the injury happens, MRI -- and ultrasound to some extent -- are important for making the definitive diagnosis.

January 1, 2007

ICD-9-CM 2007 changes: What and why

On October 1, 2006, there were 234 new International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) diagnosis codes, 29 invalid codes, and more than 100 revised code descriptions that became effective. Deepa Malhotra of Health Care Educational Resource Services walks you through the changes, which offer more detailed information about certain disease processes.

January 1, 2007

Radiologists should discuss cardiac implant disposal with patients

By Edward Susman

Tens of thousands of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators are placed inside patients on an annual basis by multispecialty teams. The physicians involved in putting in pacemakers and defibrillators -- and that includes the radiologist -- must follow through with a plan for removing them, according to a researcher from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

December 31, 2006

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