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Mammography screening controversy doesn’t dampen vendor efforts, Part II

By Kate Madden Yee

Part II of AuntMinnie.com's RadCast preview of the new mammography products at the 2002 Radiological Society of North America conference.

November 30, 2002

Mammography screening controversy doesn’t dampen vendor efforts

By Kate Madden Yee

Mammography companies are stepping up to answer the call for new technologies that will improve the efficacy of screening mammography. On the RSNA floor, look for new advances in computer-aided detection (CAD), non-x-ray breast imaging techniques, and full-field digital mammography (FFDM).

November 30, 2002

InfiMed, NIR expand relationship

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Digital x-ray developer InfiMed and distributor National Imaging Resources of Willoughby, OH, have signed an exclusive agreement allowing NIR to private-label Liverpool, NY-based InfiMed's StingRay flat-panel digital radiography systems.

November 28, 2002

Mobile PET to launch mobile PET/CT service

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Mobile PET Systems has ordered a Siemens Medical Solutions' biograph PET/CT scanner to provide a combined PET/CT mobile service.

November 28, 2002

Hands-on PET training features physician mentoring

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

Adding PET services -- either part-time with a mobile scanner or full-time with an installed unit -- requires a facility’s diagnostic radiologists to be competent and comfortable with the modality. Dr. Ethan Spiegler and Dr. Lynn Harris of Advanced Radiology in Baltimore discuss the basics of implementing a PET program.

November 28, 2002

University of Chicago to demonstrate VC CAD

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The radiology department of the University of Chicago will demonstrate a research prototype of its interactive colon computer-aided detection (CAD) workstation at next week's RSNA meeting in Chicago.

November 27, 2002