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Delft introduces Odelca-DR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Delft Diagnostic Imaging, the parent company of PACS developer Rogan-Delft, reported that its Delft Imaging Systems division introduced its Odelca-DR thorax screening system at the 2006 RSNA conference in Chicago last month.
December 14, 2006
Nuclear Medicine, Volumes 1 and 2
Nuclear Medicine, Volumes 1 and 2 present a complex subject in an easily accessible way. Someone with only an undergraduate level understanding of physics and chemistry could still be brought up-to-speed on the field just by reading these books.
December 14, 2006
High-field MRI of the brain safely acquired in pacemaker patients
By Eric Barnes
With the increasing number of implanted pacemakers, too many patients who need an MRI can't be scanned with the modality. Or can they? Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany put scores of pacemakers to the test on a 3-tesla scanner, and found no significant heating or degradation of function.
December 14, 2006
Study finds link between RT retake rates and image quality
By Kathy Kincade
Sometimes it takes a little extra time to get the job done right. That seems to be the message from a new study analyzing the relationship between digital radiography (DR) retake rates and image quality -- researchers found that the radiologic technologists with the highest retake rates also produced the best images.
December 14, 2006
University of Ottawa Heart Institute gets PET grant
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) was awarded a total of more than $10 million ($8.65 million U.S.) by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to identify and treat the causes of coronary artery disease.
December 13, 2006
Boston Scientific receives FDA nod for FilterWire EZ
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer Boston Scientific has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its FilterWire EZ embolic protection system for use in carotid artery stenting (CAS) procedures.
December 13, 2006
IBA to supply radiopharmaceuticals to Spain
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Belgian nuclear medicine products firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has been named by the regional health authorities in the Spanish region of Andalusia as its exclusive supplier of FDG and other radiopharmaceuticals.
December 13, 2006
CardioDynamics boosts sales force
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Impedance cardiography (ICG) technology developer CardioDynamics of San Diego said that it has increased its sales personnel by 25%.
December 11, 2006
Cordis launches lower-leg catheters
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Cordis Endovascular has introduced its Frontrunner XP chronic total occlusion (CTO) catheter and Outback re-entry catheter for the treatment of blocked lower-leg arteries in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
December 11, 2006
Novadaq gets Canadian approval for Luna
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Novadaq Technologies reported that it has received Health Canada approval for use of its Luna surgical visualization system for urological procedures.
December 11, 2006
Virtual dissection reading method finds the same polyps faster
By Eric Barnes
A virtual colonoscopy reading method that unrolls, opens, and displays the colon as a flat 3D model allowed readers in a recent study to find the same polyps they found in 2D or regular 3D endoluminal viewing, only faster. Still, double reading beat any single-display technique in lesion detection.
December 11, 2006
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IBA starts shipments from new Italian facility
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Belgian nuclear medicine products firm Ion Beam Application (IBA) of Louvain-la-Neuve has begun distribution of PET radiopharmaceuticals from a facility in Rome, Italy.
December 10, 2006
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