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A checklist: Good for grocery shopping, but not for reading chest x-rays
By Shalmali Pal
The term satisfaction of search (SOS) refers to a lesion that is missed after another lesion is found within the same image. In an x-ray experiment, SOS occurs when an abnormality was missed in the presence of an added abnormality, but not in its absence. Researchers from Iowa studied the use of a formatted checklist to see if it could reduce SOS errors in chest radiography.
March 12, 2006
CAD boosts performance of residents for assessing pulmonary nodules
By Erik L. Ridley
Computer-aided detection (CAD) offers improvements in the diagnostic performance of radiology residents in assessing the malignancy of pulmonary nodules from thin-section helical CT scans, but does not provide the same gains for board-certified radiologists, according to research published online before print in Radiology.
March 12, 2006
Toshiba launches two-detector cath lab at ACC show
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
ATLANTA - Multimodality vendor Toshiba America Medical Systems is using this week's American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting to launch Infinix DP-i/FD2, a vascular imaging system with two flat-panel digital detectors.
March 11, 2006
Sectra adds orthopedic site
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish PACS vendor Sectra has installed its PACS network at Triangle Orthopedic Associates, an orthopedic practice in the Raleigh-Durham, NC, area.
March 9, 2006
Medstrat adds x-ray lines
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Orthopedic imaging informatics provider Medstrat has formed partnerships with several radiography suppliers.
March 9, 2006
McKesson to showcase cardiac products at ACC
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare IT firm McKesson will be demonstrating a new hemodynamic monitoring system, as well as enhancements to its current cardiology suite of applications, at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference in Atlanta next week.
March 9, 2006
ev3 stent gets FDA, CE stent nods for Protege
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device firm ev3 of Plymouth, MN, has received Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance to market its Protege EverFlex self-expanding stent system for the palliative treatment of malignant neoplasms in the biliary tree.
March 9, 2006
Guidant launches new stent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer Guidant has launched the RX HercuLink Elite biliary stent system in the U.S., following Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance.
March 9, 2006
Bangladesh orders Varian linacs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy company Varian Medical Systems has sold four linear accelerators to Bangladesh.
March 9, 2006
MR angiography offers greater detail in vascular imaging
By Shalmali Pal
Correlation was the name of the game in two MR angiography (MRA) studies. A group from New York City looked at whether contrast flow measurements coincided with the severity of peripheral vascular disease (PVD). Meanwhile, Italian radiologists studied whether MR plaque enhancement was in sync with the degree of stenosis in the carotid artery.
March 9, 2006
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F-18 fluoride PET/CT accurately detects bone metastases in high-risk prostate cancer
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
For high-risk prostate cancer patients, detecting osseous metastatic disease is critical in the management of their cancer. Recently, researchers from Israel studied planar bone scintigraphy, single and multiple field-of-view SPECT, PET, and PET/CT to see how they compared in detecting bone metastases in these patients.
March 9, 2006
VSM nets install at Cincinnati Children's Hospital
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) developer VSM MedTech said that it has installed a MEG unit at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati.
March 8, 2006
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