Musculoskeletal Radiology: Page 166

Protests stall ACR’s accreditation of extremity MRI shops
By Tracie L. Thompson
Radiologists who oppose the American College of Radiology’s plan to offer accreditation to extremity-only MRI facilities have won at least a temporary victory against the plan, which they believe will enhance self-referring orthopedists at the expense of radiologists.
March 22, 2004
Xograph, ONI form MRI partnership
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gloucestershire-based Xograph will be offering ONI’s OrthOne 1-tesla extremity MRI system to facilities in the U.K.
March 16, 2004
GE debuts new options for FluoroTrak 9800
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Waukesha, WI, launched new visualization and navigation options for its FluoroTrak 9800 Plus C-arm at last week’s American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting in San Francisco.
March 16, 2004
Ex-Instrumentarium units merge
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Former Instrumentarium C-arm companies Instrumentarium Imaging Ziehm of Nuremberg, Germany, and Instrumentarium Imaging Ziehm of Riverside, CA, have merged to form a new company called Ziehm Imaging.
March 16, 2004
ScImage, Stryker in orthopedic PACS deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS provider ScImage is teaming up with orthopedic medical device firm Stryker to offer an orthopedic-focused imaging and information management system based on ScImage’s PICOMEnterprise system.
March 15, 2004
MSCT beats x-ray in diagnosing TKA osteolysis
By Brian Casey
SAN FRANCISCO - These days, it seems that just about everything is better with multislice CT. In orthopedic imaging, multislice CT is proving more effective than conventional radiography in finding lesions caused by osteolysis that result as a complication of total knee arthroscopy, according to a presentation Friday at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) meeting.
March 14, 2004
Tunnel-view x-ray holds the key to locked-knee syndrome
By Shalmali Pal
SAN FRANCISCO - The condylar cut-off sign on x-ray is a quick and easy way to diagnosis discoid lateral meniscus, according to a presentation Thursday at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting.
March 11, 2004
Thumbs up for MRI in carpometacarpal joint trauma
By Shalmali Pal
When the thumb sustains injury, an x-ray may not be enough, according to Australian musculoskeletal imaging specialists. In a paper published in the Journal of Hand Surgery, Dr. David Connell and colleagues assessed the role of MRI for evaluating the supporting ligaments of the thumb.
March 10, 2004
Early MRI for low back pain achieves limited benefits
By Tracie L. Thompson
VIENNA - It’s now a given that plain radiographs are no match for the challenge of lower back pain. However, MRI fares better only in some regards, according to a new study presented Tuesday at the European Congress of Radiology.
March 9, 2004
CompuMed, eTrauma ink deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Bone densitometry software developer CompuMed has signed a licensing agreement with orthopedic practice imaging technology provider, eTrauma.
March 8, 2004
Early results inconclusive for US bone-density assessment in children
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Measuring the speed of sound in bones is a promising and radiation-free method of assessing bone health in children, and adults for that matter. However, early results in a small pediatric population of renal transplant patients did not yield convincing evidence that the method is ready for large-scale implementation.
March 8, 2004
ONI sales surge in 2003
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Extremity MRI scanner developer ONI of Wilmington, MA, reported its 2003 sales as $8.4 million.
March 1, 2004
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