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Pie Medical changes name to Esaote Europe
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Italian medical device vendor Esaote has changed the name of its Pie Medical Equipment subsidiary in Maastricht, Netherlands, to Esaote Europe.
April 3, 2006
Siemens gets 510(k) for MVision
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Multimodality vendor Siemens Medical Solutions has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its MVision Megavoltage Cone Beam imaging package for radiation therapy applications.
April 3, 2006
Massachusetts bill takes aim at physician self-referral
By Kate Madden Yee
Radiology advocates in the U.S. have become increasingly frustrated at their inability to get the federal government to restrict physician self-referral. Now there are signs that such efforts may bear more fruit at the state level, with the state of Massachusetts mulling a ban on the practice for MRI, PET, and linear accelerator services.
April 3, 2006
MRI reveals patterns of neurological abnormalities in schizophrenia
By Shalmali Pal
Two new MRI studies have added to the literature on brain abnormalities in schizophrenia. The first, out of Australia, took a closer look at brain volume before and after the onset of illness. The second paper, by U.S. researchers, mapped gray-matter loss rates in childhood-onset schizophrenia.
April 3, 2006
Varian launches Vitesse 2.0 system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems this week launched Vitesse 2.0, a new ultrasound-guided brachytherapy treatment planning system.
April 2, 2006
SIR studies: UFE outcomes hold up over long term
By Edward Susman
TORONTO - Women who underwent uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) said that their quality-of-life benefits persisted three years after the procedure, researchers reported at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) meeting last week.
April 2, 2006
AuntMinnie.com Virtual Colonoscopy Radiology Insider
By Eric Barnes
April 2, 2006
Epix to buy Predix Pharmaceuticals
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI contrast developer Epix Pharmaceuticals has announced a plan to acquire Predix Pharmaceuticals Holdings, a privately held specialty pharmaceutical firm.
April 2, 2006
MRI phase-mapping quantifies regional wall motion
By Eric Barnes
The assessment of myocardial wall motion plays a key role in diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, but wall motion is extremely difficult to assess quantitatively. Physicians from Oxford University in the U.K. believe they've found a comprehensive and reproducible method of assessing regional wall motion in tissue with phase mapping (TPM) of MRI data, a technique based on phase velocity.
April 2, 2006
Boston Scientific, Guidant deal gets shareholder nod
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device firms Boston Scientific and Guidant said that shareholders of each company have voted to approve their merger.
April 2, 2006
VisualSonics adds molecular imaging to Vevo 770
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Microimaging ultrasound developer VisualSonics is introducing new molecular imaging capabilities for its Vevo 770 microultrasound system at this week's American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting in Washington, DC.
April 2, 2006
How the legal system stacks the deck against mammography
By René Jackson
Radiologists are becoming popular targets for medical malpractice suits, with failure to diagnose breast cancer on mammography a common accusation. René Jackson, R.N., co-author of The Death of Mammography, outlines how the legal system has stacked the deck against mammography, creating a perfect storm of wily plaintiffs' attorneys, juries with unrealistic expectations, and mammography providers caught in the middle.
April 2, 2006
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