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Investment firm garners third ultrasound THI patent, approaches vendors about licensing

By Wayne Forrest

A Tucson, AZ, patent management firm has received its third U.S. patent for tissue harmonic imaging (THI), a widely used technology found on many ultrasound scanners. While the company is not detailing its specific plans for defending the patents, it has already licensed the technology to one ultrasound vendor and says it is approaching others about similar deals.

October 9, 2006

Sonography similar to FNA in diagnosing palpable breast lesions

By Erik L. Ridley

Sonography is as accurate as palpation-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) in evaluating palpable breast lesions, and can replace FNA for diagnosing these lesions when the BI-RADS sonographic final assessment system is used appropriately, according to researchers from South Korea.

October 9, 2006

fMRI helps explain social dysfunction with autism

By Edward Susman

CHICAGO - Disruption of the mirror neuron system as seen on functional MRI (fMRI) may explain the social dysfunction associated with autism, according to a presentation this week at the American Neurological Association (ANA) meeting.

October 9, 2006

AuntMinnie.com Molecular Imaging Insider

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

October 8, 2006

NeuroLogica nets CE Mark

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Mobile CT developer NeuroLogica has received the European CE Mark for its CereTom portable CT scanner.

October 8, 2006

Plastic surgeons pick US for resetting broken noses

By Shalmali Pal

SAN FRANCISCO - Ultrasound allows reconstructive surgeons to visualize superficial and deep regions of the nasal cavities before adjusting bone fractures, according to a presentation this week at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons meeting.

October 8, 2006

How to win the coronary CTA turf war

Conventional cardiac imaging by echocardiography, SPECT stress tests, and catheter angiography has almost universally slipped away to cardiologists. But coronary CT angiography (CTA) is changing the battleground, and radiologists have recognized the tremendous opportunity in regaining turf in cardiac imaging. Dr. David Dowe, a radiologist with Atlantic Medical Imaging in Galloway, NJ, discusses three critical elements for success in coronary CTA.

October 8, 2006

AuntMinnie.com MRI Insider

By Shalmali Pal

October 8, 2006

AuntMinnie's IMV MarketStat #44: Percentage of U.S. hospitals with DR or CR technology

As of IMV's 2005/06 census of general x-ray departments in U.S. hospitals, 30% of the departments have at least one digital radiography (DR) unit, and 56% have at least one computed radiography (CR) unit.

October 8, 2006

Palpation visual mapping objectifies clinical breast exam results

By Shalmali Pal

The technology for breast cancer detection has made great strides in the last 200 years, but the clinical breast exam (CBE) has essentially remained the same. Adding a new technique called palpation imaging (PI) to CBE, however, may be just the ticket to bring the breast exam into the 21st century.

October 8, 2006

Elekta signs Alexian

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta will be installing its Neuromag magnetoencephalography (MEG) mapping system at an Illinois hospital.

October 5, 2006

SUNY Buffalo developing multimodality nanoparticles

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A $1.1 million grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation will help spur development of new, nanoparticle-based multiprobe systems for medical imaging, according to researchers at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics.

October 5, 2006

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