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AuntMinnie.com Musculoskeletal Imaging Insider

By Shalmali Pal

September 16, 2007

Study reveals radiologists' odd interactions with lung CAD

By Eric Barnes

It's a good thing that using computer-aided detection (CAD) to find lung nodules at CT has turned out to be worth the effort. Because how radiologists interact with the systems can be mysteriously counterintuitive. New research at California's Stanford University aims to optimize the value of CAD by better understanding radiologists' reactions to it.

September 16, 2007

Numa debuts NumaStore Lite at ASNC meeting

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nuclear medicine connectivity developer Numa of Amherst, NH, has launched its NumaStore Lite image management software for nuclear cardiology, PET, and multimodality imaging.

September 12, 2007

Study: Primary 3D VC equivalent to colonoscopy

By Eric Barnes

A British study of symptomatic patients undergoing same-day virtual and conventional colonoscopy found the two methods equivalent for the detection of clinically significant polyps. In fact, the segmentally unblinded results showed that virtual colonoscopy did slightly better than optical colonoscopy for the detection of clinically significant polyps 6 mm and larger.

September 11, 2007

BMI's importance loses weight in new atherosclerosis study

By Eric Barnes

Experts disagree about which measures of obesity most accurately predict the risk of atherosclerosis. Is the body mass index (BMI) able to predict atherosclerotic disease? Not very well, according to a new study. Using electron beam CT and cardiac MRI, researchers from Dallas found that only the waist-to-hip size ratio was independently associated with atherosclerosis.

September 10, 2007

OrthoView to supply Biomet Orthopedics

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

U.K. software developer OrthoView has inked an agreement to provide Biomet Orthopedics of Warsaw, IN, with its OrthoView software.

September 6, 2007