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CompuMed signs for credit line

Bone densitometry developer CompuMed has arranged for a $5 million equity line from Dutchess Private Equities of Boston.

January 11, 2004

Longport sells nine systems

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ultrasound developer Longport of Swarthmore, PA, has sold nine of its LDS-1 ultrasound scanners to U.S. Medical Systems, a development-stage marketing and distributing organization.

January 11, 2004

Miicro in PET deal with GlaxoSmithKline

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Neuroimaging drug developer Miicro has signed a study services agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

January 11, 2004

AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Insider

By Shalmali Pal

In our Women’s Imaging Insider exclusive, you can catch up on the latest results from FFDM studies out of Norway, the Netherlands, and Germany.

January 11, 2004

AuntMinnie.com Molecular Imaging Insider

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

In a report slated for the February issue of Radiology, Dr. Harry Agress, Jr., and Dr. Benjamin Cooper summarized the findings of 53 patients who had unexpected foci of hypermetabolism after whole-body FDG-PET scans.

January 11, 2004

Varian gets FDA nod for Trilogy

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

January 8, 2004

E-Z-EM continues strong growth in 2004 Q2

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

E-Z-EM reported fiscal 2004 second-quarter sales of $36.9 million, up 12% compared with the $32.9 million posted in its 2003 fiscal second quarter.

January 8, 2004

Loss of brain myelin in mid-life may lead to Alzheimer's disease

By Bruce Sylvester

As if a midlife crisis weren’t bad enough: The breakdown of myelin in the brain that comes with aging could contribute to the onset of Alzheimer's disease, a leading brain researcher reports in the Neurobiology of Aging.

January 7, 2004

ECRI forecasts growth in cardiovascular CT imaging

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Health services research agency ECRI forecasts that the utilization of noninvasive CT angiography will increase rapidly over the next five years.

January 7, 2004

Boston Scientific, NitroMed extend collaboration

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Interventional device developer Boston Scientific of Natick, MA, and pharmaceutical company NitroMed of Bedford, MA, have extended the firms’ collaboration, licensing and commercialization agreement for the development of nitric-oxide-coated stents to complement Boston Scientific’s paclitaxel-coated stent.

January 7, 2004

Varian gets 510(k) for 3-D

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Varian Medical Systems has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) marketing clearance for its 3-D cone-beam CT imaging system on a radiation therapy simulation and verification device.

January 7, 2004

Panoramic x-ray improves detection of challenging wrist fractures

By Tracie L. Thompson

Given the unreliability of initial radiographs in detecting scaphoid fractures, another inexpensive approach to imaging everyday wrist trauma should be welcome. But with so many other modalities available, the panoramic view may be too unusual to embrace.

January 7, 2004

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