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EDAP appoints Rewcastle as int'l medical director

EDAP TMS of Lyon, France, has appointed John Rewcastle, Ph.D., as international medical director.

June 27, 2007

Study: CAD helpful for breast MRI

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Computer-aided detection (CAD) for breast MRI may improve standardization and the analysis of benign and malignant lesions. Researchers from Seattle conducted a retrospective examination of 154 breast lesions deemed suspicious by radiologists that were only visible on MRI and that had been biopsied under MRI guidance.

June 27, 2007

Philips begins trial of PET/MR CAD software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Phillips Medical Systems and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) in Germany said they have developed a computer-aided detection (CAD) system designed to assist in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease.

June 26, 2007

CMS reconsiders coverage for new PET uses

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has agreed to review current Medicare coverage for PET applications in inflammation and infection.

June 25, 2007

DBT unlikely to hit its target as savior of breast cancer screening

In an AuntMinnie.com article last week, proponents of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) championed the modality as the great hope for rescuing the beleaguered field of breast cancer screening. Dr. Eric Milne, professor emeritus of radiology and medicine at the University of California, Irvine, begs to differ in this editorial.

June 25, 2007

Studies link Alzheimer's to beta-amyloid and potential for new ligand

By Wayne Forrest

Two studies by Australian researchers are shedding light on Alzheimer's disease. The first looked at the cause of the debilitating condition and the connection between the presence of the toxic brain protein beta-amyloid and Alzheimer's. The other study examined the potential of a new biomarker for disease detection, offering the first results from human studies of the F-18 PET ligand for brain beta-amyloid imaging.

June 25, 2007

Automated analysis tools vary in pulmonary nodule measurements

By Erik L. Ridley

Different automated analysis tools vary in determining the size of pulmonary nodules, according to a multi-institutional research group. With data from a lung nodule detection study, the researchers used commercially available automated analysis packages to quantify the variations in nodule maximum diameter and volume among the different software tools. They found maximum dimension is an unreliable marker of tumor size, even when using automated analysis software.

June 24, 2007

Fully automated VC CAD system solves tagging problems

By Eric Barnes

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have built a computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme that can find polyps in tagged virtual colonoscopy images, without getting bogged down by the oral contrast.

June 24, 2007

Firm launches breast MRI enhancement device

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image Engineering Laboratories of Avondale, PA, has launched a new device developed to improve the image quality of breast MRI studies.

June 21, 2007

Philips launches 3D TEE probe at ASE show

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Philips Medical Systems of Andover, MA, launched a new ultrasound probe for 3D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) at this week's American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) conference in Seattle.

June 21, 2007

Correlating symptoms with lumbar spine MR: Challenges to the radiologist and referring clinician

Degenerative and herniated disks may lead to potentially disabling disorders and greatly reduce the quality of life of a significant proportion of the population. For the referring clinician, MRI can differentiate between normal age-related disk changes and pathological disks. Chiropractor Dr. Gerald Anzalone offers a primer on disk morphology, as well as some tips for imaging professionals on the information clinicians hope to gain from an MR exam.

June 21, 2007

Can breast tomosynthesis save mammography?

By Brian Casey

June 20, 2007

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