Clinical News: Page 2935

GE receives Innova 510(k) clearance

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has provided 510(k) clearance for its Innova 3131(IQ) and 2121(IQ) digital flat-panel biplane imaging systems.

March 13, 2006

Aurora adds Dallas install

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Breast MRI technology developer Aurora Imaging Technology said its Aurora 1.5-tesla dedicated breast MRI system with bilateral rotating delivery of excitation off-resonance (RODEO) capabilities has been installed at the Sue A. de Mille Women's Diagnostic Center in Dallas.

March 13, 2006

IPL issues licenses

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

As part of a court settlement, Isotope Products Laboratories (IPL) has granted licenses to International Isotopes and RadQual to reproduce radioactive sources for nuclear medical imaging.

March 13, 2006

Varian adds Barts to client list

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has installed its VARiS MedOncology system at St. Bartholomew's (Barts), a teaching hospital in northeast London.

March 13, 2006

Prototype 256-slice CT scanner creates high-res images in a heartbeat

By Edward Susman

ATLANTA - An experimental 256-slice CT scanner can detail cardiac anatomy precisely enough to capture a coronary artery image in a single heartbeat, according to a presentation at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting.

March 13, 2006

CT measures post-transplant bronchiolitis obliterans severity

By Eric Barnes

Canadian researchers are using CT to assess the severity of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS), the most common cause of late death among lung transplant patients. In preliminary experiments, CT attenuation data corresponded to disease severity, and a related study found that high-resolution MDCT beat conventional high-resolution CT (HRCT) in detecting and characterizing BOS.

March 13, 2006