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Karl Storz completes iMRI integration
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical video imaging firm Karl Storz Endoscopy-America has completed the digital integration of two operating rooms with intraoperative MRI (iMRI) capabilities in the U.S.
April 2, 2007
Boston Scientific gets Japanese nod for Taxus
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer Boston Scientific reported that it has received approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) to market its Taxus Express² paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system in Japan.
April 2, 2007
Toshiba gets Infinix DP-i/FD2 install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems said it is installing its Infinix SP-i/FD2 fluoroscopy imaging system at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Heart Institute in Baltimore.
April 2, 2007
Stereotaxis gets FDA OK for ablation catheter
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image-guided interventional surgery firm Stereotaxis of St. Louis said that its magnetically enabled 8-mm ablation catheter has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance and will soon be commercially available in the U.S.
April 2, 2007
Accuray notches CyberKnife treatment milestone
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiotherapy device developer Accuray of Sunnyvale, CA, said that its CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery system has been used to treat more than 2,000 lung cancer patients worldwide.
April 2, 2007
ACRIN to launch new PET trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) is planning a new clinical trial, designed to prospectively validate if FDG can serve as predictive marker of tumor response and patient outcome in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.
April 2, 2007
Cortical defects on prevertebroplasty MR ups risk of cement leakage
By Shalmali Pal
As many as half of all vertebroplasty patients wind up with a new compression fracture, most often in the adjacent vertebral bodies. The leaking of cement into the disk space can increase the risk of new fracture. But preoperative MR exams can help predict which patients are more likely to have cement leakage, according to a paper in the April American Journal of Roentgenology.
April 2, 2007
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MRI pioneer Lauterbur dies
Paul Lauterbur, Ph.D., who received the Nobel Prize for his role in developing MRI, died on Tuesday at his home in Illinois of kidney disease. He was 77.
March 29, 2007
Pennsylvania issues contrast-induced nephropathy guidance
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS) has issued a supplementary patient safety advisory along with its quarterly 2007 March patient safety advisory to raise awareness of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN).
March 29, 2007
Rubidium PET/CT shows potential for coronary artery disease diagnosis
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
While molecular imaging for coronary artery disease (CAD) with SPECT or PET is accurate, diagnosis of multivessel CAD has proved difficult with these modalities. A team of researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston may have found a way to address the insufficiencies of multivessel CAD diagnosis by utilizing rubidium (Rb-82) PET/CT to determine a value for vasodilator left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) reserve.
March 29, 2007
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Misonix reports HIFU hemiablation success
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound technology developer Misonix announced promising results for the firm's Sonablate 500 high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) clinical trial in the U.K. for hemiablation procedures for prostate cancer treatment.
March 28, 2007
AngioDynamics to fight patent verdict, taps CFO
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology provider AngioDynamics said it would file a motion to overturn a verdict rendered against the firm yesterday in a patent infringement case involving Diomed of Andover, MA.
March 28, 2007
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