Clinical News: Page 2850

Technology broadens scope of cardiac MR
By Eric Barnes
From perfusion imaging to infarct detection and guided intervention, cardiac MRI (CMRI) is gaining utility and fans in the academic world and beyond. The options are poised to expand rapidly in the coming years thanks to better coil designs, higher field strengths in scanners, and specialized contrast agents, to name a few of the forces shaping CMR's future.
September 10, 2006
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CT Airway2
Second animation from a superior view looking down.
September 7, 2006
CT Airway1
Cutaway view animation that demonstrates spatial relationships, particularly false and true vocal cords.
September 7, 2006
Fujifilm, iCAD team for CAD on FCRm
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Stamford, CT-based Fujifilm Medical Systems USA will partner with computer-aided detection technology developer iCAD to offer the Nashua, NH company's CAD products through Fuji's U.S. sales channels.
September 7, 2006
Losses rise, revenues down in NAS' Q3
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm North American Scientific reported fiscal 2006 third-quarter revenues of $7.1 million, down 14% from the $8.1 million posted in the third quarter of fiscal 2005.
September 7, 2006
FDA panel rejects Mirabel impedance breast device
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee last week voted unanimously that the premarket approval (PMA) application for a breast impedance imaging device be found "not approvable."
September 7, 2006
Meta-analysis highlights ethnic discrepancies in osteoporosis risk factors
By Shalmali Pal
A group from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana performed a meta-analysis of major osteoporosis trials and compiled the most current information about race and osteoporosis. They also noted some of the shortcomings of these studies, and what direction future research should move in. "Considering osteoporosis to be an aged white woman's disease is an outdated practice," wrote Dr. Pooja Pothiwala and colleagues.
September 7, 2006
Furosemide beats saline in MDCT urography
By Eric Barnes
Multidetector CT is a mainstay modality for evaluating urinary conditions, but peristalsis makes it difficult to obtain a single image in which all urinary tract segments are opacified and distended. A group from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston retrospectively evaluated whether administration of intravenous furosemide, either alone or in addition to intravenous saline, improved the depiction of the normal urinary collecting system at multidetector row CT urography.
September 7, 2006
MDS Nordion Q3 posts flat revenues
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian radioisotope developer MDS Nordion reported no increase in revenues for its fiscal 2006 third quarter (end-July 31).
September 6, 2006
Intraop names Belford as VP
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Intraoperative radiation therapy firm Intraop Medical has selected Rick Belford as its vice president of quality assurance and regulatory affairs.
September 6, 2006
Philips notches 1,000th CardioMD install, debuts Xcelera 2.1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Medical Systems is displaying the latest iteration of its integrated cardiovascular information application, Xcelera 2.1, at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology meeting in Montreal this week.
September 6, 2006
Positron partners with MIMvista
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET developer Positron of Houston has entered into a partnership with MIMvista, a Cleveland-based developer of advanced visualization software for nuclear medicine.
September 6, 2006
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