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CT lung cancer screening reduces mortality

By Eric Barnes

A massive CT screening study of smokers and former smokers has concluded that annual CT screening detects curable cancers, while suggesting that survival rates improve markedly when the tumors are resected. In the study, 92% of participants who had stage I cancers resected were alive five years later, while untreated patients succumbed to the disease.

October 25, 2006

Study backs dual modality of microSPECT/CT

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Mayo Clinic researchers say the combined technologies of microSPECT and microCT imaging can accurately quantify intratumoral radioisotope uptake in vivo, and the hybrid technique is more reliable than planar or microSPECT imaging alone.

October 25, 2006

CIVCO Medical Solutions

By Wayne Forrest

Imaging accessories developer CIVCO Medical Solutions of Kalona, IA, will display its Assist line of products for interventional radiology, surgery, and emergency medicine applications at the 2006 RSNA conference.

October 25, 2006

GE Healthcare launches Voluson E8 ultrasound scanner

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has unveiled its new Voluson E8 ultrasound system.

October 24, 2006

Abbott touts stent results

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Interventional device developer Abbott Vascular of Redwood City, CA, is touting early clinical results from a new trial evaluating the safety and performance of a new class of bioabsorbable drug-eluting stents.

October 24, 2006

Scintigraphy pegs potential responders to plantar fasciitis treatment

By Shalmali Pal

Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain but the differential diagnosis can include Achilles tendinitis, retrocalcaneal bursitis, and calcaneum fracture. Bone scintigraphy is often used to identify the source of heel pain, and the modality may play a predictive role in treatment as well, according to a new study by researchers from Australia and the U.K.

October 24, 2006