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MSCT beats x-ray in diagnosing TKA osteolysis
By Brian Casey
SAN FRANCISCO - These days, it seems that just about everything is better with multislice CT. In orthopedic imaging, multislice CT is proving more effective than conventional radiography in finding lesions caused by osteolysis that result as a complication of total knee arthroscopy, according to a presentation Friday at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) meeting.
March 14, 2004
Epix names McMurry as research VP
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI contrast developer Epix Medical has promoted Thomas McMurry, Ph.D., to vice president of research.
March 11, 2004
PACS success relies on QA/QC procedures
By Erik L. Ridley
SAN ANTONIO - Commercial PACS networks are not designed to support comprehensive quality assurance (QA) practices; it’s up to the customer to implement these procedures, and radiologists have a pivotal role to play, according to Charles Willis, Ph.D., of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in Houston.
March 11, 2004
AuntMinnieIndia's IRIA Conference Reporter
By Brian Casey
Welcome to the inaugural edition of AuntMinnie’s IRIA Conference Reporter! We’re pleased to bring you this overview of the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association meeting, held in Hyderabad 8-11 January, 2004.
March 11, 2004
Fantastic voyage takes capsule endoscopy to India
By Brian Casey
One of the latest trends in gastrointestinal imaging is like a scene from the 1966 sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage: Patients swallow a small capsule outfitted with a miniature camera that snaps pictures as it passes through the small bowel. From its origins in Israel, capsule endoscopy has made the passage to India, where researchers at a Hyderabad hospital are putting it through its paces.
March 11, 2004
Konica Minolta introduces new laser imagers, CR
Konica Minolta Medical Imaging launched a pair of new dry laser printers and a new computed radiography system at the IRIA meeting.
March 11, 2004
LTMG group explores virtual colonoscopy for TB
By Brian Casey
In western countries, virtual colonoscopy has piqued interest as a means of detecting colon cancer less invasively than endoscopy-based methods such as colonoscopy. It could play that role as well in India, but VC could also have other applications, such as the detection of tuberculosis, according to a group from LTMG Hospital and Medical College in Mumbai.
March 11, 2004
Ultrasound may offer earlier typhoid detection
By Brian Casey
Typhoid fever is endemic in India, being the fifth most common infectious disease in the country. Ultrasound could fill a diagnosis gap and assume a role in the early detection of typhoid, according to results presented by Hyderabad researchers at the IRIA show.
March 11, 2004
Kodak launches CR 500 to Indian market
Eastman Kodak Health Imaging took advantage of the IRIA show to launch its DirectView CR 500, a new CR system that offers the image quality of the Rochester, NY-based company’s bigger DirectView systems but in a tabletop configuration.
March 11, 2004
Tunnel-view x-ray holds the key to locked-knee syndrome
By Shalmali Pal
SAN FRANCISCO - The condylar cut-off sign on x-ray is a quick and easy way to diagnosis discoid lateral meniscus, according to a presentation Thursday at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting.
March 11, 2004
Hitachi launches Aperto MRI scanner in India
Hitachi Medical of Tokyo gave IRIA attendees their first look at Aperto, an open MRI scanner with a 0.4-tesla permanent magnet. Hitachi has started selling the scanner in India.
March 11, 2004
Hyderabad native son provides overview of cardiac imaging
By Brian Casey
U.S. radiologist Dr. Gautham Reddy returned to the city of his birth -- Hyderabad -- to provide IRIA attendees with an overview of the latest techniques in cardiac imaging with MRI and CT.
March 11, 2004
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