Clinical News: Page 288

NorthStar buys two additional accelerators from IBA

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

NorthStar Medical Radioisotope has inked a deal to buy two more Rhodotron TT300 HE electron-beam accelerators and associated beamlines from Ion Beam Applications (IBA).

September 19, 2022

Butterfly Network distributes handheld ultrasound units in Kenya

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Butterfly Network is distributing 500 of its Butterfly iQ+ point-of-care ultrasound devices to healthcare workers in Kenya.

September 19, 2022

Are night-shift technologists operating in the dark?

By Will Morton

Radiologic technologists performing portable chest x-ray imaging are in dire need of support, says a group in New York. The call to action follows a study that found quality failures may be present in nearly half of images acquired at their hospital, most during night shifts.

September 19, 2022

Ultrasound helpful for interventional cardiology procedures

By Amerigo Allegretto

Routine ultrasound can help reduce the risk of venipuncture and number of arterial puncture attempts, as well as improve first-pass success when it comes to interventional heart procedures, a Canadian study published September 19 in JAMA Cardiology found.

September 19, 2022

Does Tc-99m SPECT damage DNA?

By Will Morton

A common laboratory test called a "comet assay" shows that radiation from technetium-99m (Tc-99m) SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging poses little risk of damaging a patient's DNA, according to a Brazilian group.

September 19, 2022

Abdominal CT has great potential for opportunistic imaging

By Kate Madden Yee

Patients undergo abdominal CT scans for a wide variety of indications. The modality's ubiquity means it has great potential to assess other health measures in what's becoming known as opportunistic screening, according to a presentation delivered at last week's International Society for Computed Tomography meeting.

September 19, 2022

AI Metrics secures two Ala. small business grants

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology developer AI Metrics has secured two small business grants from a state grant program in Alabama.

September 18, 2022

ISCT: CT offers data beyond BMI for predicting COVID severity

By Kate Madden Yee

SAN DIEGO - CT can characterize the type of fat an obese COVID-19 patient has -- and thus help predict the severity of the disease, according to a presentation delivered September 16 at the International Society for Computed Tomography (ISCT) meeting.

September 18, 2022

New AI model doesn't require annotated training data

By Erik L. Ridley

An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm trained on chest x-ray datasets not manually labeled by experts can perform similarly to radiologists for detecting pathologies, according to research published September 15 in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

September 18, 2022

Ultrasound educator forms new virtual education company

By Amerigo Allegretto

Ultrasound educator Karen Nussbaumer is creating the Academy of Diagnostic and Osteopathic Medicine, a new company that aims to deliver ultrasound education and diagnostics globally on a virtual platform.

September 15, 2022

On Target touts study on intraoperative imaging agent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Molecular imaging agent developer On Target Laboratories is highlighting the results of a study showing the effectiveness of its Cytalux agent in intraoperative imaging of folate receptor-positive ovarian cancer.

September 15, 2022

Sirtex gets nod for resin microsphere use in Brazil for HCC treatment

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation oncology firm Sirtex Medical said that the Brazilian National Agency of Supplementary Health has approved the use of its SIR-Spheres Y-90 resin microspheres for treatment of intermediate and advanced stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

September 15, 2022

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