Chest Radiology: Page 165

Delft completes install in South Africa
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Delft Diagnostic Imaging, the parent company of PACS developer Rogan-Delft, has installed an Odelca-DR digital x-ray system at the University of Cape Town Lung Institute in South Africa.
November 16, 2009
Shimadzu, EDDA partner on x-ray CAD
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Shimadzu Medical Systems and computer-aided detection (CAD) software developer EDDA Technology have inked a business partnership for chest x-ray CAD technology.
November 10, 2009
CT lung CAD helps readers differently
By Eric Barnes
Readers of varying skill levels perform significantly better when they use computer-aided detection (CAD) to find lung nodules on CT scans, according to a new study. But while CAD tends to equalize performance among readers of varying skills, readers perform differently based on experience levels, presentation order of candidate nodules, and total time spent reading a case.
November 3, 2009
ASTRO: Use PET for NSCLC judiciously
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET imaging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) prior to receiving radiation therapy should not be the basis for determining areas that may benefit from higher doses of radiation, according to research presented today at this week's American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) conference in Chicago.
November 2, 2009
superDimension updates software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy developer superDimension announced the launch of the iLogic system for early lung cancer detection and diagnosis at this week's American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in Chicago.
November 2, 2009
Chest CT depicts H1N1 better than radiography
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
In a small series of patients with the swine flu (S-OIV or H1N1) virus, CT was superior to radiography for depicting both lung abnormalities and the distribution of influenza-related disease.
October 20, 2009
CT reveals acute PE risk in patients with severe swine flu
By Eric Barnes
Minimizing the mortality associated with the H1N1 flu virus, also known as swine flu, will require creative use of various tools to assess the disease and its severity. For that task, chest CT is emerging as a useful modality, both to confirm H1N1 diagnosis and, as shown in a new study, to assess lung damage in the most seriously ill patients.
October 20, 2009
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Philip Morris may have to pay for smokers' CT scans
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris USA could be on the hook to pay for CT chest scans of longtime smokers, following a unanimous decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court released on Monday.
October 19, 2009
Study: Lung scintigraphy tops CTA in PE
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lung scintigraphy may be more reliable than pulmonary CT angiography (CTA) for identifying or excluding pulmonary embolism (PE) in pregnant patients, according to a study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
October 19, 2009
CT supplants V/Q scanning for pulmonary embolism detection
By Wayne Forrest
The ready availability of CT has resulted in the modality largely supplanting ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) scanning with gamma cameras to diagnose suspected pulmonary embolism, according to an upcoming study in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
October 19, 2009
CT can aid early swine flu diagnosis
By Eric Barnes
As the world awaits a vaccine to stave off H1N1 and hopes for the best, radiologists are finding that thoracic CT can aid early identification of the influenza known commonly, if inaccurately, as swine flu. A new paper in the American Journal of Roentgenology shows how CT detected a case that had shown a false-negative result on an H1N1 rapid antigen test.
October 13, 2009
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PET/CT helps speed lung cancer diagnosis
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
FDG-PET/CT can expedite the diagnosis of lung cancer in an outpatient setting, according to research from the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam.
October 1, 2009
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