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CT screening for lung cancer: Implications on social responsibility
Radiology is positioned to play a key role in the exciting endeavor of CT screening for lung cancer. Radiologists should be optimistic about the possible social benefits that this new technology promises, but should cautiously move forward and continually evaluate the associated risks, then properly relay these findings to patients so they can make educated decisions.
April 9, 2007
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TeraRecon rolls out AQPlaque suite
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Advanced visualization firm TeraRecon has introduced its AQPlaque suite of vascular analysis tools.
April 8, 2007
AuntMinnie.com Cardiac Imaging Insider
By Eric Barnes
April 8, 2007
Initia-RT nets CE Mark
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Initia-RT has received the European CE Mark for its CrossPlan treatment planning software.
April 8, 2007
Cardiac MR measures predict pulmonary hypertension
By Eric Barnes
Cardiac MRI is opening a new diagnostic window on pulmonary hypertension (PH), according to a pair of studies from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. The first study focused on detecting PH by measuring the ventricular septal-to-free-wall curvature ratio. The second used phase-contrast MRI to determine that average blood velocity is strongly correlated to pulmonary pressure and resistance.
April 8, 2007
Imaging veterans venture into radiation oncology with Topex
By Wayne Forrest
After only a few years in retirement, former Lorad founder and CEO Anthony Pellegrino decided in 2003 that it was time to get back in the healthcare business. With former Lorad president and chief operating officer (COO) John M. Brenna, the duo began laying the groundwork for another venture -- Topex. Today, the Danbury, CT-based firm has created a mobile superficial radiation therapy (SRT) system designed specifically to treat skin cancer.
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Meridian readies new OrthoView software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
U.K. software developer Meridian Technique will be introducing version 5 of its OrthoView orthopedic planning software at June's annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).
April 5, 2007
New developments improve VC -- and colonoscopy
By Eric Barnes
Virtual colonoscopy is improving in important ways -- as it must to keep up with optical colonoscopy. But considering that innovations in conventional colonoscopy also impact the value of VC, radiologists would be wise to stay up-to-date with those improvements as well, according to a recent presentation at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna.
April 5, 2007
MicroVention enrolls final patient in HELPS trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer MicroVention of Aliso Viejo, CA, reported that it has enrolled the 500th and final patient in its HydroCoil Endovascular Aneurysm Occlusion and Packing Study (HELPS).
April 4, 2007
IsoRay continues cesium-131 placements
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical isotope developer IsoRay Medical reported that market acceptance of its cesium-131 brachytherapy products continued to advance.
April 4, 2007
MDS Nordion to partner with Avid Radiopharmaceuticals
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radioisotope developer MDS Nordion of Kanata, Ontario, will collaborate with Avid Radiopharmaceuticals to support clinical studies for the Philadelphia company's radiopharmaceuticals designed to diagnose and monitor Alzheimer's disease.
April 3, 2007
Report: Image-guided radiation therapy on rise
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
In the past two years, the percentage of sites offering image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) treatment options to patients has more than doubled, from 15% of the radiation therapy service sites in the U.S. to more than 33% in 2006, according to data released by market research and consulting firm IMV Medical Information Division.
April 3, 2007
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