Clinical News: Page 2913

Cedara, Swissray join forces
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian medical imaging software developer Cedara Software of Mississauga, Ontario, and digital radiography (DR) firm Swissray International have inked an agreement.
April 30, 2006
DOBI lands financing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Optical imaging developer DOBI Medical International has secured more than $6 million in financing via a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors.
April 30, 2006
AuntMinnie.com Ultrasound Radiology Insider
By Erik L. Ridley
April 30, 2006
US, MRI play complementary roles in intraductal breast cancer
By Shalmali Pal
The microscopic intraductal component of breast cancer can cause local recurrence, even after breast conservation therapy. Unfortunately, this essential component is often missed during surgery. Clinicians in Japan tested ultrasound and MRI to see if they could detect intraductal invasive breast cancer and improve surgical accuracy.
April 30, 2006
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Imaging start-up to install conebeam CT breast imaging prototype
By Kate Madden Yee
Breast CT has long been dismissed as a breast imaging option due to its higher radiation doses relative to mammography. But if the dose issue could be resolved, CT might just have some potential, according to imaging start-up Koning. The Rochester, NY-based company has developed a new kind of CT, conebeam computed tomography (CBCT), with the hope of revolutionizing breast imaging by producing fast, efficient, and detailed scans, and alleviating the discomfort of breast compression.
April 30, 2006
Siemens to buy Diagnostic Products
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Multimodality vendor Siemens Medical Solutions and Diagnostic Products Corporation (DPC) of Los Angeles have signed an agreement for Siemens to acquire DPC, an immunodiagnostics firm, for $1.86 billion.
April 27, 2006
SNM offers research grant for cardio molecular imaging agents
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) is accepting applications for a $35,000 fellowship in cardiovascular molecular imaging. The grant is co-sponsored by Bracco of Milan, Italy.
April 27, 2006
Philips inks EDDA deal, finishes Witt buy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
AUSTIN, TX - Philips Medical Systems has signed an agreement for CAD software with EDDA Technology of Princeton, NJ, and finalized its acquisition of cardiology image and information management firm Witt Biomedical of Melbourne, FL.
April 27, 2006
GE installs PET/CT in Boston
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has shipped its first 64-slice PET/CT Discovery VCT system to Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.
April 27, 2006
VirtualScopics hires Markin
Biomarker developer VirtualScopics of Rochester, NY, has hired Jeffrey Markin, a 26-year veteran of Eastman Kodak, as its chief operating officer.
April 27, 2006
EMR tool creates feedback on critical findings
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
To ensure that significant unexpected findings, such as a malignancy, are given the appropriate workup, a group from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the department of radiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor developed and instituted a semiautomated process for notification of critical diagnostic imaging findings.
April 27, 2006
Targeted angiography precludes unintentional embolization during TACE
By Shalmali Pal
Using a "superselective" angiography procedure, Korean interventionalists were able to reduce hepatic injuries during transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and metastatic liver disease.
April 27, 2006
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