Industry News: Page 952

Sectra posts sales, profit increase in Q3

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Swedish PACS firm Sectra posted a revenue gain and a substantial improvement in profitability in the third quarter of its 2015-2016 fiscal year.

March 7, 2016

Calgary Scientific brings ResolutionMD to Turkey

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Advanced visualization software developer Calgary Scientific is partnering with Turkish healthcare IT firm Limantepe Technology & Life for the distribution of its ResolutionMD medical image viewing software in Turkey.

March 7, 2016

Canadian guidelines support CT lung cancer screening

By Louise Gagnon

New guidelines published yesterday in Canada call for annual CT lung cancer screening of asymptomatic adults ages 55 to 74 who are at high risk for lung cancer. The guidelines were published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal and issued by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.

March 7, 2016

Debate roils Japan over rise in children's thyroid cancer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A debate has broken out over whether a recent rise in thyroid cancer in children in Japan is related to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster -- or whether it's simply due to overdiagnosis as children near the site of the disaster are screened for the disease, according to an article in Science.

March 7, 2016

CDI promotes Raschke to CFO

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) has promoted Ryan Raschke to the position of chief financial officer (CFO).

March 7, 2016

Hitachi, Redlen to develop photon-counting CT detector

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Hitachi Medical will collaborate with Redlen Technologies of Canada to jointly develop a multienergy photon-counting CT semiconductor detector module for new CT systems.

March 7, 2016

Report: Alberta hospitals see spike in CT wait times

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Patients may be waiting longer for CT scans in the Canadian province of Alberta due to budget problems, according to a report published this week in Metro Toronto.

March 7, 2016

Updated manual for MRI safety now available

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The 2016 edition of the Reference Manual for Magnetic Resonance Safety, Implants, and Devices by Frank Shellock, PhD, is now available.

March 6, 2016

MIM signs Memorial Sloan Kettering

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medical imaging software developer MIM Software announced that the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has adopted its radiation oncology software.

March 6, 2016

Dose monitoring software cuts dose notifications by half

By Eric Barnes

VIENNA - Dose awareness among radiology staff is key to maintaining optimal dose levels, concluded several presenters of dose monitoring studies at ECR 2016. Among them, a Swiss group found that running dose monitoring software in real-time and requiring technologists to report the results slashed the number of dose notifications due to technologist error.

March 5, 2016

Interventional radiology needs accurate dose tracking

By Erik L. Ridley

VIENNA - Radiation dose from interventional radiology procedures continues to increase, and it's critical to have mechanisms to estimate and track dose accurately for both patients and equipment operators, according to a presentation on Sunday at ECR 2016.

March 5, 2016

Algorithm quantifies airway disease at CT

By Eric Barnes

VIENNA - A fully automated algorithm to evaluate airway disease produced good to excellent results from MDCT images, according to research from Germany presented this week at ECR 2016.

March 5, 2016

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