Musculoskeletal Radiology: Page 130

Orthocrat signs OrthoCarolina

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Orthopedic template and surgical planning developer Orthocrat has received a contract from OrthoCarolina of Charlotte, NC.

July 1, 2007

ONI gets $13 million in new capital

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Extremity MRI developer ONI Medical Systems of Wilmington, MA, has received $12.5 million in capital from Milwaukee-based Ziegler Meditech Equity Partners.

June 28, 2007

Parallel sequence plus high-field MR improves ankle imaging

By Shalmali Pal

A technique called generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisition, or GRAPPA, offers images with "excellent" diagnostic quality and scan time reduction when paired with 3-tesla MR, according to researchers from two California-based institutions. They experimented with this protocol in symptomatic, cadaveric ankle specimens and healthy volunteers.

June 28, 2007

Ziehm's IGS system to enter the U.K.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Xograph Healthcare of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, U.K., will supply Ziehm Imaging's Cappa IS digital mobile C-arm with fully integrated surgical navigation system to the U.K. and Ireland.

June 27, 2007

CMS reconsiders coverage for new PET uses

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has agreed to review current Medicare coverage for PET applications in inflammation and infection.

June 25, 2007

Correlating symptoms with lumbar spine MR: Challenges to the radiologist and referring clinician

Degenerative and herniated disks may lead to potentially disabling disorders and greatly reduce the quality of life of a significant proportion of the population. For the referring clinician, MRI can differentiate between normal age-related disk changes and pathological disks. Chiropractor Dr. Gerald Anzalone offers a primer on disk morphology, as well as some tips for imaging professionals on the information clinicians hope to gain from an MR exam.

June 21, 2007