Body Imaging: Page 13

Experts chew the fat on obesity, services for larger patients
By Frances Rylands-Monk
VIENNA - Ground-breaking applications of functional imaging techniques can help radiologists play their part in the fight against the emerging obesity pandemic. In particular, MR elastography is showing promise in the early detection of disease, attendees were told at Saturday's State-of-the-Art Symposium at ECR 2014.
March 8, 2014
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iCAD's Xoft hits patient treatment milestone
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
iCAD announced that more than 1,000 early-stage breast cancer patients have been treated with its Xoft Axxent electronic brachytherapy system.
March 5, 2014
Stryker, NeuroLogica partner on CT scanner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Stryker and NeuroLogica have partnered to promote and sell NeuroLogica's BodyTom portable full-body CT scanner.
January 6, 2014
Ultrasound strain elastography improves soft-tissue workup
By Kate Madden Yee
Tuesday, December 3 | 9:10 a.m.-9:20 a.m. | VSMK31-04 | Room E451BIn this session, researchers will discuss how adding ultrasound strain elastography to conventional grayscale ultrasound appears to improve diagnostic information for soft-tissue nodule workup.
November 11, 2013
Radiation risk matters in cancer screening decisions
By Eric Barnes
CT wins the cost-benefit analysis in most cancer screening tests involving the modality, but the risks of ionizing radiation aren't negligible and should continue to be scrutinized as a factor in screening decisions, according to an article in the July edition of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
June 30, 2013
Software provides automated patient size estimate on CT
By Erik L. Ridley
Tuesday, November 27 | 5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | LL-PHS-TU9D | Lakeside Learning CenterIn this scientific poster, a study team will explore the capabilities of the open-source Generalized Radiation Observation Kit application for providing automated patient size estimates on CT exams.
November 11, 2012
New CAD method lowers false positives for lymphadenopathy
By Erik L. Ridley
Sunday, November 25 | 11:35 a.m.-11:45 a.m. | SSA19-06 | Room S403BIn this scientific session, researchers will describe how adding organ detection to a computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme can decrease false positives on CAD systems for detecting lymphadenopathy.
November 11, 2012
Whole-body MRI feasible for stage III melanoma follow-up
By Erik L. Ridley
VIENNA - Except for in the lungs, whole-body MRI can perform comparably to CT or PET/CT for following up stage III melanoma patients, according to a presentation on Sunday at the European Congress of Radiology.
March 3, 2012
Barco lands contract for virtual reality systems
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image display firm Barco has installed its I-Space virtual room and two CADWall systems at the University of Toledo College of Medicine's new virtual immersive reality center.
November 30, 2011
GE gets FDA nod for CoreScan
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for CoreScan, an application that quantifies visceral adipose tissue during body composition analysis.
May 24, 2011
PEM tops whole-body PET for assessing extent of cancer
By Kate Madden Yee
Positron emission mammography (PEM) is more sensitive than whole-body PET or whole-body PET/CT for assessing local extent of breast cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers at the American College of Radiology Imaging Network.
March 7, 2011
UltraSPECT gets FDA OK for PET application
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm UltraSPECT said it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its whole-body PET imaging reconstruction application.
March 1, 2011
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