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InSightec reports first North American MRgFUS patient

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Israeli focused-ultrasound developer InSightec said that Mount Sinai Hospital and University Health Network (UHN) Joint Department of Medical Imaging in Toronto have performed the first noninvasive surgery using the vendor's MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) technology.

May 30, 2006

Digital x-ray unreliable for evaluating bone healing

By Shalmali Pal

Inadequate bone healing can adversely affect patient management, making it difficult for orthopedic surgeons to decide if immobilization will be necessary. While x-ray has traditionally been employed for assessing bone healing, its reliability is questionable, according to Austrian clinicians. In the latest issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, they reported better success with multidetector-row CT (MDCT) for revealing nonunion in orthopedic patients.

May 30, 2006

3D CT measures accurately for total knee arthroplasty

By Eric Barnes

Accurate implant alignment and ligament balance are essential for a successful total knee arthroplasty. These days CT is taking on a bigger role in presurgical planning, with increasing use of 3D measurements. And according to Korean researchers, the measurements based on 3D reconstructions are accurate and reproducible.

May 30, 2006

Toshiba inks Infinix deals

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Toshiba America Medical Systems said it has completed the installation of its Infinix DP-i/FD2 cardiac C-arm technology at St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way, WA, and Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia.

May 29, 2006

High osmolarity agent beats gadolinium in cardiac MR

By Eric Barnes

A compact but concentrated dose of high-osmolarity contrast agent produced a better MR contrast profile than gadolinium in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, a U.K. team has reported.

May 29, 2006

Lesbians' neuro response to pheromones unlike straight women's -- and men's

By Shalmali Pal

Based on the results of a PET study, researchers from Sweden found that lesbians have very little in common with their own gender and only some similarities with heterosexual men when it comes to their response to sexual stimuli.

May 29, 2006

Radiologists can win the battle for coronary CTA

Our April 11 story on the difficulties radiologists face in their heart-to-heart imaging competition with cardiologists brought a vigorous rebuttal from a leading academic radiologist. In dueling editorials on cardiac imaging, Dr. David C. Levin calls Dr. Gabriel P. Krestin's views unnecessarily pessimistic, and says radiology has inherent advantages that will ensure it a big piece of the imaging pie. Then Krestin weighs in with a response of his own.

May 28, 2006

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Dr. Gabriel P. Krestin, Ph.D., responds to Dr. David C. Levin's comments to the April 11, 2006, AuntMinnie.com article, "Cardiac imaging dazzles, but radiologists can't compete alone," that references his honorary lecture at the 2006 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna.

May 28, 2006

X-ray alien head vanishes from duck stomach

By Eric Barnes

News of an apparent extraterrestrial being that was lodged in a duck's gizzard is grabbing headlines from San Francisco to cyberspace. Workers at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Cordelia, CA, were stunned when they examined a plain radiograph of a sick mallard, according to workers at the center.

May 25, 2006

Cordis to establish Silicon Valley research center

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Biologics Delivery Systems Group, Cordis of Miami Lakes, FL, said it plans to open a research and development facility in the San Francisco Bay Area.

May 24, 2006

Intraop gets Belgian Mobetron order

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Intraoperative radiation therapy firm Intraop Medical has received an order from Saint Augustinius Hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, for its Mobetron system.

May 24, 2006

UltraSPECT gets U.S. patent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Israeli nuclear medicine developer UltraSPECT has received a U.S. patent, 7,026,623, for its "efficient single-photon emission imaging," according to the Haifa-based vendor.

May 24, 2006

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