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Digital 'blink' comparator boosts lesion detection performance
By Erik L. Ridley
CHICAGO - Using a digital comparison technique that rapidly alternates new and prior images in front of another can yield significant improvement in the detection of lesions, according to a presentation Sunday at the 2006 RSNA meeting.
November 25, 2006
Kodak to collaborate with NDMA on European mammo screening
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Eastman Kodak Health Group has agreed to collaborate with National Digital Medical Archive (NDMA) of Berwyn, PA, on product integration initiatives that will support the European mammography market's move from analog imaging to digital imaging and information technology.
November 25, 2006
Cardiac CT yields significant extracardiac findings
By Eric Barnes
CHICAGO - Cardiac CT yields a high number of incidental findings, many of them clinically important, according to a study presented Sunday at the 2006 RSNA meeting. Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston analyzed 964 CT cardiac imaging studies acquired over a two-year period.
November 25, 2006
Whole-body FDG-PET of little use in breast cancer staging
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
CHICAGO - An award-winning research project conducted by a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia found that whole-body FDG-PET added little additional information in staging patients with known primary breast cancer.
November 25, 2006
DALSA debuts new DR camera at RSNA
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian digital imaging developer DALSA of Waterloo, Ontario, has introduced XR-4, a scientific and medical digital x-ray camera for use in biomedical, specimen, mammography, and CT applications, at this week's RSNA meeting in Chicago.
November 25, 2006
Koning introduces CT for breast imaging
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
CT start-up firm Koning of West Henrietta, NY, has launched its first conebeam CT system, Koning CT for Breast and Extremities, at this week's RSNA show in Chicago.
November 25, 2006
More DMIST analysis supports FFDM in younger women, dense breasts
By Shalmali Pal
CHICAGO - An improvement in contrast may be one reason that full-field digital mammography (FFDM) performs better than film-screen mammography (FSM) in certain subgroups of women, according to the lead investigator of the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST). Dr. Etta Pisano presented updated results Sunday at the RSNA meeting.
November 25, 2006
Rendoscopy opens U.S. office
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
German software developer Rendoscopy announced it has opened an office in the U.S.
November 25, 2006
Abdominopelvic PET profits from forced diuresis
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
PET studies of the abdomen and pelvis have the potential for identifying and staging a variety of malignancies. But trying to image this area with F-18 FDG, the only radiopharmaceutical reimbursed in the U.S. for noncardiac PET, is compromised by its accumulation in the gastrointestinal tract and urinary tracer activity. Researchers from Switzerland have recently developed a procedure to overcome this limitation -- forced diuresis with parenteral hydration.
November 23, 2006
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MRI spots white-matter changes in movement disorder patients
By Edward Susman
People who suffer from idiopathic dystonia may have an underlying structural brain structure anomaly that contributes to the physical spasms that are manifest in the disorder, according to researchers from the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Using diffusion tensor MRI, they scanned patients with and without dystonia, and found white-matter abnormalities in the patients with the disorder.
November 23, 2006
IDC to show prototype digital mammo unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Digital radiography vendor Imaging Dynamics will be showing a digital mammography prototype at next week's 2006 RSNA meeting in Chicago.
November 22, 2006
XCounter to launch second patient study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
3D mammography developer XCounter of Danderyd, Sweden, has received regulatory approvals to carry out a larger second patient study on its XC Mammo 3-T system.
November 21, 2006
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