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Breast MRI helps guide surgical treatment
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast MRI can help guide surgical treatment in women who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer, finding additional tumors and altering treatment in 23% of cases, according to a new study.
May 21, 2007
PET/MRI system an ISMRM highlight for Siemens
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions of Malvern, PA, has begun demonstrations of a prototype of an imaging system that can perform simultaneous MRI and PET scans.
May 21, 2007
CT enterography answers range of small-bowel questions
By Eric Barnes
Some radiologists do their best to avoid CT enterography, but they're missing out on a wide range of diagnoses that alternative exams can't provide. Dr. Patrick Rogalla of Charité Hospital in Berlin offers advice for maximizing the value of CT enterography exams for indications ranging from tumor search to inflammatory bowel disease.
May 21, 2007
Coronary MR protocol picks veins favorable for resynchronization therapy
By Shalmali Pal
BERLIN - One-third of cardiac resynchronization therapy procedures in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) experience hemodynamic failure, while another 12% are marred by implantation failure. MR coronary vein imaging holds promise for preprocedural assessment of the veins in CHF patients, according to a presentation Monday at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting.
May 21, 2007
Presurgical fMRI for tumor resection: Are we there yet?
By Shalmali Pal
BERLIN - In theory, functional MRI offers the ultimate noninvasive, presurgical management tool for brain tumor resection. In practice, fMRI techniques have a way to go before they can be as accurate as intraoperative cortical stimulation (ICS), according to Dr. Stefan Sunaert, Ph.D., from the University Hospital of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. Sunaert discussed some of the strengths and weaknesses of fMRI for brain tumor mapping in a talk Sunday at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting.
May 20, 2007
Pie to launch CAAS MRV 3.2 at ISMRM show
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Dutch imaging firm Pie Medical Imaging is demonstrating the newest version of its CAAS MRV quantitative image analysis software at this week's International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting in Berlin.
May 20, 2007
Two-segment CTA reconstruction aids images, not accuracy
By Eric Barnes
For patients with faster heart rates, the use of two-segment reconstruction improves image quality at 64-slice coronary CT angiography (CTA), according to a study from Germany. Among all patients, however, accuracy was not improved using two-segment when compared to single-segment reconstruction.
May 20, 2007
MRI keeps pace with rapidly evolving musculoskeletal systems of young athletes
By Shalmali Pal
BERLIN - About 35 million kids in the U.S. participate in organized or recreational sports. In general, they concentrate on one sport and train at accelerated levels, resulting in overuse and repetitive stress injuries that are compounded by the delicate nature of a growing musculoskeletal system. At the 2007 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting on Saturday, two presentations focused on pediatric sports injuries and typical MR signs of various chronic musculoskeletal issues.
May 19, 2007
MRI becoming more efficient in breast cancer detection
By Wayne Forrest
As breast cancer continues as a major health concern for women, MRI is playing an increasingly important role in detecting the disease in certain subgroups. Two recent studies focused on breast MRI, with the first examining whether accurate assessment of breast vascularity can help increase specificity for breast MRI. The other sought to determine how often incidental lesions are detected by MR, how they can be characterized, and what is the proper management of the lesions.
May 17, 2007
Varian scores large Danish linac order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has received a large radiotherapy equipment order from hospitals in Denmark.
May 16, 2007
Homogeneity at CT distinguishes renal cysts from cancer
By Eric Barnes
Renal cysts are common and benign; renal carcinoma is not. And distinguishing some high-attenuating cysts from cancer on a typical unenhanced CT scan can be difficult, if not impossible. But researchers from Yale University think they've succeeded in sorting them out fairly accurately, if only to inform the decision for the next exam.
May 16, 2007
CompuMed adds to revenues, net loss in Q2
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Additional sales from its electrocardiogram product line helped Los Angeles-based medical informatics firm CompuMed post higher revenues in its second fiscal quarter.
May 15, 2007
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