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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

MR experts take issue with FDA gadolinium warning

By Shalmali Pal

In May 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommend that a "black box" warning label be places on all gadolinium-based contrast agents. Now a group of MR safety experts have deemed the FDA's suggestion as "imprudent." They argue that the risk of a patient with renal disease developing nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) does not currently appear to be the same among the various gadolinium-based MR contrast agents.

September 17, 2007

GE launches pediatric DEXA software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., is launching new software designed to help physicians conduct pediatric dual-energy x-ray absorbtiometry (DEXA).

September 16, 2007

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

SNM updates technologists' scope of practice

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

SNM's Technologist Section has revised its "Scope of Practice for the Nuclear Medicine Technologist 2007."

September 6, 2007

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