Clinical News: Page 671

PTW unveils multipurpose QA rad therapy phantom

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Dosimetry firm PTW has introduced Ruby, a modular, multipurpose phantom designed to provide quality assurance (QA) evaluation of the entire radiotherapy treatment chain.

November 19, 2019

Hospital ordered to pay family for MRI-related death in India

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Bombay High Court this week ordered the city government of Mumbai to pay the interim compensation of 1 million rupees (approximately $14,000 U.S) to the family of a man who died in an MRI accident, according to a November 19 report in the Indian Express.

November 19, 2019

Carestream nets FDA OK on 2 DR products

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Carestream Health has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on its dual-energy imaging technology for digital radiography (DR) and its Focus 35C detector with Image Suite software.

November 19, 2019

Keepsake ultrasound operator fires back at critics

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The woman who operated a keepsake ultrasound center in Louisiana that has been in the headlines this week is firing back at her critics, claiming she has done nothing wrong and that the negative media coverage is the result of a campaign orchestrated by a competitor.

November 19, 2019

CT radiation increases risk of thyroid cancer, leukemia

By Abraham Kim

Researchers from the U.S. and Taiwan have identified an association between radiation exposure from CT scans and an increased risk of thyroid cancer and leukemia in a large-scale, population-based study. The findings are covered in an article published online on November 19 in JNCI Cancer Spectrum.

November 19, 2019

AuntMinnie.com Ultrasound Insider

By Kate Madden Yee

November 18, 2019

Mevion lands order in Taiwan

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Mevion Medical Systems and systems integrator ASYS have signed an agreement with Chung Shan Medical University Hospital in Taiwan.

November 18, 2019

RaySearch expands customer base with China contract

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation therapy software developer RaySearch has received an order for its RayStation treatment planning software from the Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center in China.

November 18, 2019

La. keepsake ultrasound center leaves moms in lurch

By Brian Casey

A group of expecting moms in Louisiana have discovered a hard lesson about the perils of keepsake ultrasound centers. The center apparently told dozens of women the wrong gender for their babies, and it even told one woman to do jumping jacks to enable a better view on ultrasound scans, according to news reports.

November 18, 2019

fMRI shows how brains rebound from hemispherectomy

By Wayne Forrest

A new study published online November 19 in Cell Reports sheds new light on how some people are able to recover from hemispherectomy -- removal of half their brain -- and still function at a high level. Functional MRI (fMRI) demonstrated how the brain compensates by restoring communication in certain areas to compensate for the loss.

November 18, 2019

Which MRI sequences can best handle metal braces?

By Wayne Forrest

What is the best way to overcome artifacts in patients wearing metallic orthodontic devices? The authors of a new study published November 12 in Radiology recommend slight modifications in functional MRI and diffusion-tensor MR imaging sequences to complete the task.

November 18, 2019

Qlarity gets FDA OK for MRI-guided breast biopsy software plugin

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medical artificial intelligence software developer Qlarity Imaging has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its QuantX MRI guidance breast biopsy software plugin.

November 18, 2019

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