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SPECT/CT offers better bone scan views to enhance treatment
By Wayne Forrest
Combining SPECT and CT into a single hybrid modality can improve physicians' views of bone scans, as well as the confidence levels of their own diagnoses. Two recent studies are showing SPECT/CT's value in managing cancer patients and patients with back pain.
September 20, 2007
CHAMP won't include Medicare provisions
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Negotiators from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate brokered an agreement September 18 to remove Medicare provisions from the House-approved Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act (CHAMP), according to the American College of Radiology (ACR) of Reston, VA.
September 19, 2007
Cook expands existing Cardica deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device firm Cook Medical announced that it has inked a deal with Cardica of Redwood City, CA, to expand the two firms' original agreement for developing vascular closure devices.
September 19, 2007
Slice thickness, reading method don't change VC results
By Eric Barnes
Neither the primary reading method (2D versus 3D) nor reconstruction slice thickness affected VC results in significant ways in a recent study by researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. The group also found that the novel "virtual dissection" viewing method saved reading time.
September 19, 2007
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Varian, BrainLab team up
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, CA, and image-guided therapy developer BrainLab of Germany have partnered to introduce the Novalis Tx stereotactic radiosurgery system.
September 18, 2007
Gamma Medica-Ideas makes Oklahoma install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera developer Gamma Medica-Ideas has made an installation of its dual-modality SPECT/CT preclinical imaging system at a site in Oklahoma.
September 18, 2007
NAS completes sale of Nomos unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy developer North American Scientific (NAS) has completed the sale of its Nomos radiation oncology business to Best Medical International.
September 18, 2007
Imaging software helps guide liver surgery
By Brian Casey
September 17, 2007
NeuroLogica adds cranial stabilization unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Portable CT developer NeuroLogica is teaming up with German neurosurgery products firm pro med instruments (PMI) to launch its Doro CereTom intraoperative cranial stabilization system.
September 17, 2007
GE to sell Imtec conebeam CT scanner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has signed an exclusive agreement to distribute the Iluma conebeam CT scanner from dental products developer Imtec of Ardmore, OK.
September 17, 2007
Aloka debuts two new scanners
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound vendor Aloka has introduced two new scanners targeted at the cardiac and vascular imaging markets.
September 17, 2007
Advanced liver imaging shapes surgical strategies
By Eric Barnes
The days of planning liver interventions on the strength of a few CT or MR reconstructions may be numbered. Researchers from Germany and beyond are honing a set of advanced planning tools that not only provide high-resolution color-coded 3D visualization of the liver parenchyma and vasculature, but offer quantitative views of the intrahepatic vessel branching system and the risks of cutting at a given point in the organ.
September 17, 2007
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