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Good news on PET reimbursement lifts vendors' spirits

By Robert Bruce

Nuclear medicine enjoyed some good news this year, as the fast-growing PET market escaped drastic cuts in Medicare reimbursement proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The good news came just in time for PET vendors exhibiting at this year's meeting.

November 30, 2002

MRI vendors to demonstrate incremental advances

By Brian Casey

Upgrades and enhancements will be the order of the day in magnetic resonance imaging on the RSNA technical exhibit floor this year. Most major vendors will be showing systems that represent the evolutionary development of the modality, rather than breakthrough new product introductions.

November 30, 2002

Digital x-ray begins to benefit from economies of scale, Part II

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

The following article is Part II of AuntMinnie.com's RadCast preview of new x-ray products at the 2002 Radiological Society of North America meeting.

November 30, 2002

Digital x-ray begins to benefit from economies of scale

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

Economies of scale are beginning to work in favor of digital radiography for perhaps the first time. With more developers entering the field, the range of technology options -- from retrofits of existing analog x-ray systems to new state-of-the-art devices -- has never been greater.

November 30, 2002

New ultrasound products highlight modality’s expansion

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

The ultrasound market experienced a relatively quiet year in 2002. The pace of industry consolidation has slowed considerably since blockbuster acquisitions in 2000 by Siemens Medical Solutions and Philips Medical Systems, with the only question remaining being which of the two companies will emerge at the top of the ultrasound heap.

November 30, 2002

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

Head for Chicago with AuntMinnieMobile

By Brian Casey

Are you heading to Chicago for the RSNA show? Packing a personal digital assistant (PDA) handheld computer along with your mittens? Then get AuntMinnieMobile, and stay up to date on RSNA news no matter where you are in McCormick Place!

November 27, 2002

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