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Toshiba's SureCardio beats half-scan reconstruction in 16-slice CT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems' CT angiography (CTA) multisegment reconstruction application, SureCardio, offered significant measurable improvements over half-scan reconstruction in patients with normal heart rates, according to the Tustin, CA-based vendor.
May 11, 2004
Time has arrived for contrast echocardiography
By Erik L. Ridley
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - When unenhanced echocardiography studies are inadequate, adding contrast confers better patient care along with time and cost savings, according to a presenter at the Leading Edge in Diagnostic Ultrasound conference.
May 11, 2004
Part IV: Imaging the pediatric patient: CT applications in pediatric imaging
AuntMinnie.com presents the final installment of a four-part white paper on pediatric imaging tips and techniques by radiologic technologist Douglas Clark, who discusses CT dose reduction, imaging protocol, and shares some unusual cases.
May 11, 2004
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SPECT/CT improves bladder cancer staging, management
By Eric Barnes
SAN FRANCISCO - In a poster presentation at this week’s American Urological Association meeting, Dr. Amir Sherif from Uppsala University in Sweden talked with AuntMinnie.com about a new fusion technique that more than doubled the sensitivity of planar lymphoscintigraphy alone.
May 11, 2004
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IsoRay inks deal with PNNL and U.S. DOE
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical isotope developer IsoRay has signed a manufacturing contract with Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to collaborate in the manufacture of cesium-131 brachytherapy seeds, according to the Richland, WA-based firm.
May 10, 2004
Intermagnetics to distribute Gore coils
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI components provider Intermagnetics General has signed a deal to distribute all W. L. Gore and Associates-branded flexible MRI surface coils.
May 10, 2004
Impac, Siemens form development alliance
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation oncology developer Impac Medical Systems and Siemens Medical Solutions have signed an agreement to use a full DICOM-RT compliant specification for the development of an interface for the firms' products.
May 10, 2004
Physician group buys fourth Fonar scanner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
An orthopedic physician group has purchased its fourth Fonar Stand-Up MRI scanner, for a center in Columbus, OH.
May 10, 2004
Prowess gets 510(k) clearance
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation treatment-planning software developer Prowess of Chico, CA, has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for its Prowess Panther direct-aperture optimization-based intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) planning system.
May 10, 2004
ACR reverses course on ortho MRI
By Tracie L. Thompson
The American College of Radiology has scuttled a highly controversial program to accredit extremity MRI facilities --a plan that critics had decried as giving an ACR stamp of approval to self-referring orthopedists.
May 10, 2004
Siemens releases first images from Sensation 64
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions said it has released the first clinical images from its Somatom Sensation 64 64-slice CT scanner. The images were acquired at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.
May 9, 2004
Cordis recalls instructions for biliary stent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology developer Cordis Endovascular is recalling revised instructions for use of its Precise RX nitinol stent transhepatic biliary system.
May 9, 2004
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