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Report: Fujifilm makes pitch for Curium Pharma

By Wayne Forrest

In what would be its latest deal in an ongoing acquisition spree in healthcare, Fujifilm has made an offer to buy French radiopharmaceutical developer Curium Pharma in a transaction that could be valued as high as $3 billion, according to a January 14 report from Bloomberg.

January 15, 2020

LMI highlights research on PET neuroimaging tracers

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Berlin-based Life Molecular Imaging (LMI) is unveiling new study findings on its PET neuroimaging tracers through nine different presentations at this week's Human Amyloid Imaging meeting in Miami.

January 15, 2020

Video from J.P. Morgan: Portable MRI takes to the streets

SAN FRANCISCO - You never know what you'll encounter on the streets of San Francisco, and never has this been truer than during the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. One of the more interesting sights during the January 13-15 meeting was a portable MRI scanner from startup firm Hyperfine Research making the rounds.

January 15, 2020

EOS 2019 revenue lags due to dip in orders

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Orthopedic imaging technology developer EOS Imaging reported a net loss in its 2019 fiscal year as a result of a decrease in equipment orders.

January 15, 2020

Samsung NeuroLogica lands Memorial Sloan Kettering

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Samsung NeuroLogica has won a contract to install its NeuroLogica BodyTom Elite mobile CT scanner at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

January 15, 2020

Hey, Alexa -- Tell me about breast density

By Theresa Pablos

Asking personal assistants like Alexa about complex health issues isn't a reality now, but one day it might be. Researchers describe how an interactive health educator called Danya could teach women about breast density in a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine on January 9.

January 15, 2020

No shield from x-rays: How science is rethinking lead aprons

By Mary Chris Jaklevic

CHICAGO - Patients have come to expect a technician to drape their torsos with a heavy lead apron when they get an x-ray, but new thinking among radiologists and medical physicists is upending the decades-old practice of shielding patients from radiation.

January 15, 2020

CTA lowers costs, improves outcomes for minor stroke

By Abraham Kim

Integrating CT angiography (CTA) into the routine clinical evaluation of patients with an acute minor stroke has the potential to lower costs and improve patient outcomes compared with standard medical management, according to a study published online January 14 in Radiology.

January 15, 2020

ASRT: Enrollment down for radiologic technology programs

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The number of students enrolling in radiologic technology programs trended downward in 2019, according to a report released by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT).

January 14, 2020

ASTRO names new editor in chief for clinical journal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has chosen Dr. Robert Amdur to serve as editor in chief of its clinical practice journal Practical Radiation Oncology, effective January 1, 2021.

January 14, 2020

Cu-64 DOTATATE PET could handle neuroendocrine tumors

By Wayne Forrest

PET imaging with copper-64 (Cu-64) DOTATATE could become a lower-radiation dose option for patients with suspected neuroendocrine tumors, according to the results of a phase III clinical trial published online January 10 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

January 14, 2020

IMV: MR providers work harder as procedure volume grows

By Lorna Young

If you feel like you're working harder just to keep up, you're not mistaken. The number of MRI procedures being performed in the U.S. has reached an all-time high, at an estimated 42 million procedures in 2019, up 8% over 39 million exams in 2018, according to a new report by IMV Medical Information Division.

January 14, 2020

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