Musculoskeletal Radiology: Page 140

ACL injuries aggravated by damage to associated ligaments

By Shalmali Pal

Injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) can be career-ending ones for athletes. Two recent studies have focused on imaging these injuries. In the first, researchers evaluated meniscal extrusions and associated knee joint abnormalities in young athletes. In another study, the spotlight was on meniscus extrusion and lateral meniscus root tears in ACL tears.

June 29, 2006

Orthocrat adds Montefiore to customer roster

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Orthopedic template and surgical planning technology developer Orthocrat of Petach-Tikva, Israel, said its TraumaCad software has been selected by Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.

June 27, 2006

GE inks Asian osteoporosis deal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has signed a deal with global dairy company Fonterra to promote bone health awareness in Asia.

June 25, 2006

AuntMinnie.com Orthopedic Insider

By Shalmali Pal

June 25, 2006

Marginal osteophytes on x-ray indicate osteoarthritis

By Shalmali Pal

Osteoarthritis has several unique features on knee x-ray, such as marginal osteophytes, joint space narrowing, subchondral sclerosis, and subchondral cysts. But researchers from Wisconsin set out to find out how useful these features are for detecting articular cartilage degeneration.

June 20, 2006

Konica Minolta expands extra-long CR cassette functionality

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA has made its long-length CR cassette for capturing full-length leg and spine images available for more CR models.

June 8, 2006

OrthoView, Kodak team up in Scotland

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

OrthoView and Eastman Kodak Health Group have signed an agreement calling for OrthoView to supply its orthopedic planning tool along with Kodak PACS networks to the Scottish Health Boards.

June 7, 2006

UltraSPECT touts WBR SPECT reconstruction

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Israeli nuclear medicine developer UltraSPECT of Haifa used the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) meeting in San Diego to promote its wide-beam reconstruction (WBR) technology, which the company markets as an add-on module to improve the image quality and speed of gamma cameras.

June 6, 2006

Experimental CAD scheme makes quick work of bone scintigraphy analysis

By Shalmali Pal

SAN DIEGO - A computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme developed by a group at the University of Chicago offers a high sensitivity for detecting interval changes on bone scintigraphy. The scheme was also found to reduce reading time and reveal changes in soft tissue, according to a presentation this week at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) meeting.

June 4, 2006

Agfa signs Greenville Hospital System

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare said that Greenville Hospital System in Greenville, SC, will be installing its Impax for Orthopaedics PACS network at three offices of its sports medicine partner, Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas (SHCC).

June 1, 2006

InSightec reports first North American MRgFUS patient

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Israeli focused-ultrasound developer InSightec said that Mount Sinai Hospital and University Health Network (UHN) Joint Department of Medical Imaging in Toronto have performed the first noninvasive surgery using the vendor's MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) technology.

May 30, 2006

Digital x-ray unreliable for evaluating bone healing

By Shalmali Pal

Inadequate bone healing can adversely affect patient management, making it difficult for orthopedic surgeons to decide if immobilization will be necessary. While x-ray has traditionally been employed for assessing bone healing, its reliability is questionable, according to Austrian clinicians. In the latest issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, they reported better success with multidetector-row CT (MDCT) for revealing nonunion in orthopedic patients.

May 30, 2006

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