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Medtronic nets French reimbursement approval

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Interventional technology firm Medtronic said it has received reimbursement approval in France for its Endeavor drug-eluting coronary stent system.

June 11, 2006

FDA clears GE nuclear cardiology software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for a new software package for the fusion of PET/CT and SPECT/CT cardiac studies.

June 11, 2006

GE investigates Omniscan cases

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., is investigating 25 cases of a rare kidney disease that developed in European patients after administration of the company's Omniscan MRI contrast agent.

June 11, 2006

Flat polyps foil readers in 16-slice VC study

By Eric Barnes

Korean researchers had a hard time finding flat polyps on contrast-enhanced virtual colonoscopy, even with the aid of thin-section imaging on a 16-slice CT scanner, according to a new study. Fewer than half of the flat lesions in the retrospective patient cohort were detected by blinded and unblinded review together.

June 11, 2006

Defining and evaluating custom 2D/3D digital display protocols

By Cynthia E. Keen

While radiologists differ in their ideas for creating an optimized display of 2D and 3D images, consensus default display protocols (DDPs) can produce a high level of agreement, according to a multi-institutional research team.

June 11, 2006

Positron buys Cadenza software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PET vendor Positron has acquired exclusive licensing rights to sell and further develop Cadenza Software for predicting coronary artery disease.

June 8, 2006

Konica Minolta expands extra-long CR cassette functionality

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA has made its long-length CR cassette for capturing full-length leg and spine images available for more CR models.

June 8, 2006

Cordis unveils next-generation transhepatic biliary stent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Biologics Delivery Systems Group, Cordis of Miami Lakes, FL, has added to its Palmaz Blue biliary stent line with a 0.014 transhepatic biliary stent, featuring balloon-expandable stent delivery technology, to treat biliary blockages.

June 8, 2006

PET market continues double-digit growth

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The demand for PET continued to grow in 2005, reaching 1.2 million procedures, an increase of 24% for the year. Procedure volume should increase 31% in 2006, according to a recent study by market research firm Bio-Tech Systems.

June 8, 2006

U.K. group finds high miss rate for lung cancers on chest x-rays

By Jill Stein

When CT in unavailable, chest x-ray must be relied on for the detection of lung cancer. As a result, a low miss rate is essential. British respiratory specialists conducted a retrospective study at their hospital to determine their miss rate for lung lesions on chest x-ray, as well as how well they did on following up suspicious radiographic findings.

June 8, 2006

MDS Nordion Q2 shows gains

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Canadian radioisotope developer MDS Nordion, a division of Toronto-based MDS, reported an 11% gain in revenues for its fiscal 2006 second quarter (end-April 30).

June 7, 2006

MxSecure adds Cranial Technologies U.K. clinic

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medical transcription services provider MxSecure of Scottsdale, AZ, reported that it will provide its MxTranscribe EHR medical transcription and document management system software to Cranial Technologies' newest clinic in London.

June 7, 2006

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