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Draxis closes unit share deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical firm Draxis Health of Mississauga, ON, has successfully closed its offering of more than 3 million share units.
April 21, 2004
Cordis stent gets FDA panel recommendation
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology developer Cordis has received an approval recommendation from the Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Food and Drug Administration for its Cordis Carotid System.
April 21, 2004
Cardinal unit to sell Graseby pump in the U.S.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardinal Health's Radiation Management Services division has begun distributing the Graseby Medical 3400 Syringe Pump, used to administer intravenous drugs such as radiopharmaceuticals and chemotherapy drugs.
April 21, 2004
Part I: Imaging the pediatric patient: Beyond the smiles and stickers
AuntMinnie.com is pleased to present Part I of a four-part white paper on pediatric imaging by radiologic technologist Douglas Clark. In this installment, Clark offers tips and techniques for maximizing cooperation from the littlest patients.
April 21, 2004
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Guidant completes BVS acquisition
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer Guidant of Indianapolis has completed its acquisition of Bioabsorbable Vascular Solutions.
April 20, 2004
Images-on-Call unveils new offerings
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Images-on-Call (IOC) of Dallas has released a new film digitizer station and a USB key storage product.
April 20, 2004
VC screens post-colectomy patients for disease recurrence
By Eric Barnes
Add post-colectomy surveillance to virtual colonoscopy’s list of indications. Researchers from the General Hospital of Athens "G Gennimatas" and the University of Athens used the virtual exam to screen for disease recurrence in individuals who have undergone temporary or permanent colectomy, and found that it could be easily adapted for cancer staging.
April 20, 2004
Constant image-noise standard lowers CT dose in pediatric exams
By Eric Barnes
In a bid to develop more accurate patient-stratification methods that could ultimately optimize the protocols used for chest, abdominal, and pelvic studies in children, U.S. researchers performed a study using a series of child-sized acrylic phantoms.
April 20, 2004
Dedicated camera offers better scintimammography results
By Brian Casey
Breast imaging specialists for the past several years have explored scintimammography as a potentially useful adjunct to x-ray-based mammography. Their hope is that scintimammography's functional imaging abilities could offset mammography's shortcomings, especially with regard to the imaging of dense breasts.
April 20, 2004
Boston Scientific shows strong Q1 gains
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer Boston Scientific of Natick, MA, has released financial results for its 2004 fiscal first quarter (end-March 31).
April 19, 2004
Radiation Therapy Services to launch IPO
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation treatment center operator Radiation Therapy Services is planning to go public in an initial public offering aimed at raising gross proceeds of $75 million.
April 19, 2004
Scintimammography augments traditional cancer detection methods
By Shalmali Pal
Radiographically dense breasts continue to pose a challenge to women's imaging specialists. The alternative imaging options that have been proposed include computed radiography for mammography, as well as ultrasound, MRI, and scintimammography. A study in the latest issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine has suggested taking the latter modality one step further, with a dedicated breast camera.
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