Head and Neck Radiology: Page 76

Jury reviews unusual CT injury
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Hospitals needn’t redesign their CT rooms for procedures involving anesthesia, says a lawyer who recently won a personal injury case that raised the issue.
October 31, 2001
Therapy-eluding metastases caught with FDG-PET
By Shalmali Pal
Some thyroid cancer patients with elevated serum thyroglobulin (Tg) levels may not benefit from conventional iodine therapy. However, FDG-PET can detect the tumors 131I imaging misses, according to French researchers.
October 2, 2001
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NeuroPhysics installs first European system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SPECT developer NeuroPhysics has installed its first NeuroFocus functional brain imaging system in Europe.
September 24, 2001
Harmonic Scalpel reduces pain in tonsillectomy
By Edward Susman
The Harmonic Scalpel, an ultrasonic dissector coagulator, caused less pain than electrocautery among children undergoing tonsillectomy, according to researchers at the 2001 American Academy of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery meeting.
September 23, 2001
Alzheimer's disease, Part I: PET yields surprising findings in hippocampus
By Eric Barnes
Predicting who will get Alzheimer's disease is an important question that nuclear medicine is beginning to answer. In Part I of our series on AD, researchers from UCLA find an unexpected link between perceived cognitive decline and reduced FDG metabolism in the hippocampus.
September 6, 2001
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4-D Neuroimaging opens first Magnes site
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Magnetic source imaging developer 4-D Neuroimaging's first Magnes 3600 system has opened for operation at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN.
August 26, 2001
Hologic appoints Cumming as CEO
X-ray and bone densitometry vendor Hologic has promoted senior vice president and Lorad president John Cumming to president, CEO, and director.
July 31, 2001
Triple-detector PET may improve peripheral lesion sensitivity
By Erik L. Ridley
TORONTO - A triple-detector hybrid PET system can provide improvements in peripheral imaging over two-detector systems, according to research presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting.
June 27, 2001
MRI lifts the lid on TRB
By Eric Barnes
The past few years have yielded many clues about ocular retinoblastoma, a childhood cancer that occurs in about 1 in 20,000 births. Yet little is known about a particularly virulent form of the disease known as trilateral retinoblastoma. In a 15-year retrospective study, neuroradiologist Dr. James Provenzale sheds a light on TRB's deadly path.
June 19, 2001
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Analysis of color Doppler signal intensity variation after Levovist injection: A new approach to the diagnosis of thyroid nodules
By Ultrasound Review
(Ultrasound Review) Analyzing the color Doppler signal intensity variation after Levovist injection might provide useful information to differentiate benign from malignant thyroid nodules, according to results from a prospective study by researchers in Naples, Italy.
June 5, 2001
Canadians follow the Masters path for head CT
By Eric Barnes
A 1987 study that stratified trauma patients by risk of intracranial injury apparently works as well for CT as it did for x-ray. In fact, new research concludes that the old Masters guidelines choose patients for head CT far more reliably than the emergency room physicians treating them.
May 28, 2001
Duplex criteria for determination of 50% or greater carotid stenosis
By Ultrasound Review
(Ultrasound Review) The North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) of 1998 determined that symptomatic patients with >50% stenosis of the internal carotid artery benefited from surgical treatment.
May 22, 2001
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