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ACR urges CMS to cover breast tomosynthesis
By Kate Madden Yee
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is urging the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reimburse providers for the extra cost of digital breast tomosynthesis. Women currently have to pay extra for tomosynthesis out of pocket, despite growing evidence of the technology's superiority over conventional digital mammography.
July 23, 2014
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New Mexico center deploys ABUS
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Santa Fe Imaging in Santa Fe, NM, has installed GE Healthcare's Invenia automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) system.
July 14, 2014
Practice of Ultrasound: Part 16 -- Breast ultrasound screening
By Dr. Jason Birnholz
AuntMinnie.com presents the 16th in a series of columns on the practice of ultrasound from Dr. Jason Birnholz, one of the pioneers of the modality. In this installment, he discusses breast cancer screening in general and the role of ultrasound in particular.
July 9, 2014
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Native American, rural women have less access to breast MRI
By Kate Madden Yee
Most U.S. women have relatively easy access to mammography and breast ultrasound, but breast MRI presents a greater challenge, especially for Native American women and those in rural areas, according to a new study published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
June 26, 2014
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Breast imaging market to hit $3B in 2019
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The global market for breast imaging technologies is expected to reach $3 billion by 2019, with a compound annual growth rate of 8.1% between 2014 and 2019, according to a new report from research firm MarketsandMarkets.
June 25, 2014
Siemens submits PMA for breast tomosynthesis
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has submitted a premarket approval application (PMA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Mammomat Inspiration mammography system with a digital breast tomosynthesis option.
June 25, 2014
JAMA: Adding tomo to mammography finds more cancer
By Kate Madden Yee
Adding digital breast tomosynthesis to mammography screening boosts the detection of invasive cancer by more than a third compared to mammography alone while reducing the number of false positives by 15%, according to a study in the June 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
June 23, 2014
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DBT not only finds more cancers, but more invasive ones
By Kate Madden Yee
In community practice, digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) performed better than conventional 2D mammography, reducing recall rates, increasing overall cancer detection, and increasing the detection of invasive cancer, according to research published online June 11 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
June 17, 2014
Breast tomosynthesis adoption uneven across the U.S.
By Kate Madden Yee
When used with digital mammography, digital breast tomosynthesis has been shown to improve the diagnostic accuracy of breast cancer screening and diagnosis. But exactly how and where is it being used in the U.S.? Researchers investigated this question and presented their findings in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
June 16, 2014
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Synthesized 2D images dramatically reduce DBT radiation dose
By Kate Madden Yee
Breast imagers reading 2D images synthetically reconstructed from digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) data had comparable performance to those reading conventional 2D mammography and DBT scans for breast cancer screening, while exposing women to less radiation dose, according to a study published in the June issue of Radiology.
June 12, 2014
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MDCT: Kalender offers update on breast CT
By Kate Madden Yee
Clinical trials for a high-resolution breast CT scanner will begin in Germany in early 2015, according to a talk by Willi Kalender, PhD, at the International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT (MDCT). The hope is that the technology will outperform full-field digital mammography and breast tomosynthesis at equivalent dose levels.
June 11, 2014
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GE lands FDA nod for Invenia ABUS
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has launched its Invenia automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) system in the U.S. following receipt of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.
June 2, 2014
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