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Toshiba launches two-detector cath lab at ACC show
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
ATLANTA - Multimodality vendor Toshiba America Medical Systems is using this week's American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting to launch Infinix DP-i/FD2, a vascular imaging system with two flat-panel digital detectors.
March 11, 2006
ART posts sales gains in Q4, but loss widens
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian optical molecular imaging developer ART Advanced Research Technologies reported fourth-quarter sales of $1.2 million (U.S.), up 107% compared with the $599,000 booked in the fourth quarter of 2004.
March 9, 2006
Medstrat adds x-ray lines
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Orthopedic imaging informatics provider Medstrat has formed partnerships with several radiography suppliers.
March 9, 2006
McKesson to showcase cardiac products at ACC
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare IT firm McKesson will be demonstrating a new hemodynamic monitoring system, as well as enhancements to its current cardiology suite of applications, at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference in Atlanta next week.
March 9, 2006
ev3 stent gets FDA, CE stent nods for Protege
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device firm ev3 of Plymouth, MN, has received Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance to market its Protege EverFlex self-expanding stent system for the palliative treatment of malignant neoplasms in the biliary tree.
March 9, 2006
Guidant launches new stent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer Guidant has launched the RX HercuLink Elite biliary stent system in the U.S., following Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance.
March 9, 2006
Novoste completes Best Vascular deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Vascular radiotherapy firm Novoste of Norcross, GA, has completed the sale of substantially all the assets of its vascular brachytherapy business to Best Vascular of Fairfax, VA.
March 9, 2006
NAS cuts losses in Q1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm North American Scientific (NAS) reported revenues of $7.5 million for its fiscal 2006 first quarter (end-January 31), a decline of 8% compared with revenues of $8.2 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2005.
March 9, 2006
IDC notches DR sale in India
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian digital x-ray developer Imaging Dynamics (IDC) of Calgary, Alberta, has installed its first Xplorer DR unit in Chennai, India, at the Apollo Hospitals Group.
March 9, 2006
Bangladesh orders Varian linacs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy company Varian Medical Systems has sold four linear accelerators to Bangladesh.
March 9, 2006
MR angiography offers greater detail in vascular imaging
By Shalmali Pal
Correlation was the name of the game in two MR angiography (MRA) studies. A group from New York City looked at whether contrast flow measurements coincided with the severity of peripheral vascular disease (PVD). Meanwhile, Italian radiologists studied whether MR plaque enhancement was in sync with the degree of stenosis in the carotid artery.
March 9, 2006
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F-18 fluoride PET/CT accurately detects bone metastases in high-risk prostate cancer
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
For high-risk prostate cancer patients, detecting osseous metastatic disease is critical in the management of their cancer. Recently, researchers from Israel studied planar bone scintigraphy, single and multiple field-of-view SPECT, PET, and PET/CT to see how they compared in detecting bone metastases in these patients.
March 9, 2006
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