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Berlex suspends NeoTect production and sales
By Robert Bruce
Contrast maker Berlex Imaging notified customers that it has suspended production of peptide-based radiopharmaceutical NeoTect until it resolves quality control issues at its European plant.
March 27, 2003
Hong Kong hospital posts SARS protocol
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A Hong Kong hospital that has treated patients suffering from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has posted images and a diagnosis protocol on its Web site.
March 24, 2003
Routine chest x-rays don’t enhance thoracotomy catheter assessment
CHICAGO - Researchers at the American Pain Society meeting reported that routine postoperative chest x-rays are often of limited quality and that catheter tip location is difficult to identify on most films.
March 23, 2003
Radiologists’ skills crucial in event of bioterrorist attack
By Kate Madden Yee
Radiologists will play crucial roles in diagnosing and treating illnesses caused by biological agents, particularly inhalational anthrax, which manifests specific symptoms on chest x-rays and CT scans, according to an article in the latest issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology
March 13, 2003
AccuImage gets FDA nod for PrimeLung
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The program features a set of integrated modules, including one that provides 2-D and 3-D navigation and visualization tools.
March 9, 2003
Philips debuts lung nodule assessment option
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The program is available on all CT systems.
March 6, 2003
CAD helps solve CT lung screening dilemma
By Brian Casey
CT lung cancer screening may sound like a great idea, but the reality of nodule detection is nettlesome. The target population is huge, the scans are tedious to read, and screening studies can produce boatloads of suspicious nodules, all of which must be followed up in a systematic fashion.
February 13, 2003
Lung CAD applications starting to outread radiologists
By Eric Barnes
Radiologists who screen for lung cancer have one of the toughest jobs in the field. Help is on the way, however, in the form of emerging lung CAD applications that make CT lung screening more practical. At the RSNA meeting in Chicago, several groups presented their latest efforts to develop such applications.
February 12, 2003
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Ground-glass lung lesions on CT are treatable with limited excision
By Edward Susman
Japanese researchers are relying on high-resolution CT to spot increasingly smaller lung lesions, according to a presentation at the 2002 Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting in San Diego earlier this month.
February 9, 2003
Lung cancer screening not cost-effective, say Johns Hopkins researchers
By Eric Barnes
CT's value as a lung cancer screening tool may be outweighed by the potential risk of evaluating nodules that turn out to be benign, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
January 13, 2003
Pleural effusion common in post-op x-rays of coronary bypass patients
By Shalmali Pal
More than 2,000 coronary artery bypass graft procedures are performed yearly at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, and at least 40% of patients who undergo CABG develop a pleural effusion in the immediate postoperative period.
January 7, 2003
Worrisome radiation dose seen in CT lung screening, follow-up
By Eric Barnes
Lacking cumulative dose data for lung screening protocols, radiologists from Duke University Medical Center decided to add them up based on the literature. CT lung screening and multiple follow-up scans can produce alarmingly high dose totals, according to Dr. Philip Goodman.
December 22, 2002
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