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Infrared Sciences gets FDA nod for infrared breast imaging unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Infrared Sciences has received Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its BreastScan IR digital infrared imaging system.
February 25, 2004
Doppler ultrasound indices come up short in liver disease assessment
By Erik L. Ridley
Doppler ultrasound-derived indices are not a reliable means of grading the severity of chronic liver disease, according to researchers from Hammersmith Hospital in London.
February 25, 2004
Sagemark plans fifth PET center
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Financial services firm Sagemark Companies has begun development of its fifth PET center, in Forest Hills, NY.
February 25, 2004
Web connectivity brings payor, provider benefits
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
ORLANDO, FL - In a presentation at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference on Monday, Augusta Kairys, Highmark's vice president of provider relationships, shared her company’s efforts to establish its Web-based presence in its network of over 44,000 professionals and more than 1,000 facility and ancillary providers.
February 24, 2004
CT-guided pre-radiation capecitabine leads to high response rate
By Edward Susman
Chemotherapy prior to radiation shrank tumors sufficiently to allow doctors to perform curative surgery as well as sphincter-sparing procedures, according to a presentation at the 2004 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium in San Francisco.
February 24, 2004
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Sonography offers predictors of SST tears
By Ultrasound Review
(Radiology Review) According to radiologists at University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, secondary ultrasound findings, including greater tuberosity cortical irregularity and joint fluid, are the best predictors of supraspinatus tendon (SST) tear.
February 24, 2004
Toshiba installs first Aquilion 32 CFX in U.S.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems has installed its first Aquilion 32 CFX 32-slice CT scanner in the U.S.
February 23, 2004
PocketRadiologist: Obstetrics: Top 100 Diagnoses
Within each diagnosis, navigation is easy. The information and images load effortlessly and with little delay. The software requires only three megabytes of storage space, and it works equally well from a storage card or from the Pocket PC’s main memory.
February 23, 2004
ASTRO releases literature on prostate cancer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) has published a new patient information brochure on prostate cancer.
February 23, 2004
MR colonography group favors dark-lumen technique, air- versus water-based distension
By Eric Barnes
The German researchers who pioneered MR colonography (MRC) have been expanding their evaluation of the dark-lumen imaging technique they conceived in 2001. In two newly published articles, the radiologists from University Hospital in Essen discussed the efficacy of dark-lumen imaging, and investigated the effect on the technique of air versus water as a contrast agent.
February 23, 2004
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SCAR members offer solutions for data deluge
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
ORLANDO, FL - Whether radiologists will sink or swim in the face of a tsunami-size wave of imaging data will depend on their willingness to adapt to new ways of managing, viewing, and reporting diagnostic imaging information, according to a presentation at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference on Monday.
February 23, 2004
AuntMinnie's Molecular Imaging Radiology Insider
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
Fusion imaging in general, and PET/CT in particular, continues to break new ground. The capabilities of the modality are just beginning to be fully explored, with diagnostic discoveries announced almost monthly.
February 22, 2004
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