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Emageon inks Christus Health HeartSuite deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image management firm Emageon has signed an agreement to provide cardiology image management and visualization services to Dallas-based regional health system Christus Health.
July 26, 2006
Positron's IS2 unit notches 150th SPECT sale
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
IS2 Medical Systems, an Ottawa, Ontario-based subsidiary of PET developer Positron of Houston, has sold its 150th SPECT camera system.
July 26, 2006
Barco launches new Voxar 3D version
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image display and advanced visualization software developer Barco of Kortrijk, Belgium, has unveiled the latest iteration of its Voxar 3D application, version 6.1.
July 26, 2006
Cytogen begins phase III study for Quadramet
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Biopharmaceutical firm Cytogen said that the National Cancer Institute's Radiation Treatment Oncology Group (RTOG) has initiated a randomized phase III trial involving its Quadramet radiopharmaceutical.
July 25, 2006
Study: 16-MDCT yields too many nonevaluable artery segments
By Eric Barnes
Low-dose 16-slice MDCT angiography should not be recommended for the routine nonemergency evaluation of patients with chest pain and an intermediate or high probability of coronary artery disease, according to the authors of a new study in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
July 25, 2006
Cordis builds Irish facility
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Biologics Delivery Systems Group Cordis said it plans to build a 180,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility, a development laboratory, and a finished-goods testing center in Cashel, Ireland.
July 24, 2006
Quantum scores DR order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiography firm Quantum Medical Imaging has installed two of its digital radiography (DR) systems at Orthopedic & Sports Institute of the Fox Valley in Appleton, WI.
July 24, 2006
Alzheimer's Association funds PET scan study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Alzheimer's Association has awarded a $2.1 million research grant to the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). The funds will be used to expand the five-year study to include PET scans using Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB), according to the association.
July 23, 2006
IMV reports nuclear medicine growth
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
U.S. procedure volume in nuclear medicine (excluding PET studies) has been growing at an annualized rate of 5% since 2002, according to a new report published by market research firm IMV Medical Information Division of Des Plaines, IL.
July 23, 2006
Window levels matter when viewing submerged polyps in VC
By Eric Barnes
Tagging regimens are increasingly popular among virtual colonoscopy providers, who want to optimize lesion conspicuity and thereby avoid undetected lesions. But finding submerged polyps in 2D means paying careful attention to the attenuation of tagged fluid and window settings, according to new research from the U.K.
July 23, 2006
Canadian lung CAD cuts false positives
By Eric Barnes
At the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) conference in Osaka, researchers from Canada presented a CAD algorithm that can distinguish between faint and similarly shaped lung structures, reducing false positives with the aid of a hybrid learning scheme that uses both linear discriminant analysis and fuzzy c-means clustering.
July 23, 2006
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Kodak adds CAD for dental DR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Eastman Kodak Health Group said that it will offer Logicon Caries Detector computer-aided detection (CAD) software as an optional component with its intraoral DR systems marketed in the U.S.
July 20, 2006
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