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Amersham OKs GE acquisition

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

One month after posting year-end sales growth in its 2003 financial report, shareholders of contrast developer Amersham voted to approve the company’s pending acquisition by GE Healthcare of Waukesha, WI.

March 18, 2004

Healthcare payors take aim at imaging again

By Brian Casey

Is history repeating itself? Signs are that U.S. healthcare payors, concerned over rising costs, are once again targeting medical imaging procedures like CT and MRI.

March 18, 2004

Teenage wasteland? fMRI study shows adolescent brain is short on motivation

By Shalmali Pal

It’s this complex cost-to-benefit relationship in the adolescent brain that a recent neuroimaging study tackled. As with most of us, teenagers are thrilled with the idea of a reward. Yet how far are they willing to go to achieve it? And if there’s a stress-free way to obtain something good, will they gleefully go for it, regardless of the consequences?

March 18, 2004

Atlas of Head and Neck Imaging: The Extracranial Head and Neck

This text is suitable for the resident, who is trying to grasp the breadth of pathology in the head and neck, as well as for the general radiologist who seeks to improve his or her accuracy and confidence in interpreting CT and MR exams of the head and neck.

March 17, 2004

Intermagnetics sales rise in Q3

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MRI components provider Intermagnetics General reported net income of $4.3 million in its fiscal third quarter of 2004, compared with $4.2 million in net income in the same period last year.

March 17, 2004

Three-dimensional ultrasound shows utility in fetal lung volume measurements

By Erik L. Ridley

Three-dimensional ultrasound can be used to measure fetal lung volume (FLV) for up to 30 weeks gestation, and the technique offers good agreement with MRI in cases with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), according to separate articles in the March issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

March 17, 2004