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Medicsight, Viatronix selected for SIGGAR1 trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer Medicsight and advanced visualization software developer Viatronix said that Medicsight's ColonCAD software and Viatronix's V3D-Colon workstation will be used in the SIGGAR1 U.K. CT colonography clinical trial.
February 1, 2006
GE launches Ventri cardiac gamma camera
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Multimodality vendor GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., is launching a new dual-head gamma camera targeted at the nuclear cardiology market.
January 31, 2006
Guidant gets CE Mark for drug-eluting stent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer Guidant reported that it has received European CE Mark approval for its Xience V everolimus-eluting coronary stent.
January 31, 2006
Orthocrat selects Greenberg as chairman
Orthopedic planning software developer Orthocrat has named Dr. Michael Greenberg as its chairman of the board.
January 30, 2006
MR overordered by primary physicians for back pain
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
Lower back pain is one of the more common adult patient presentations to primary care physicians in the U.S. And when it comes to the modality most frequently requested by primary care physicians for imaging lower back pain, MRI is rapidly becoming their modality of choice, although it is not always clinically indicated.
January 30, 2006
CT more sensitive than spinal fracture x-ray, but has limits
By Shalmali Pal
Patients with blunt trauma are at a high risk for thoracolumbar spine fractures, which require swift evaluation. Spinal x-ray is commonly used in these situations, but it is a time-consuming and difficult exam. So a group of surgeons and radiologists investigated whether CT might be a viable alternative.
January 29, 2006
Guidant sales fall in Q4
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
In line with an early January earnings warning, interventional device developer Guidant reported fourth-quarter sales of $828.2 million, down 14% compared with the $968.2 million reported in the same period a year ago.
January 26, 2006
Elekta adds Hong Kong install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta has installed its radiation oncology technology at Tuen Mun Hospital in Hong Kong.
January 26, 2006
X-ray reveals how pin placement aggravates nerves in pediatric fractures
By Shalmali Pal
Supracondylar humerus fractures occur quite frequently in children, and this traumatic break is usually treated with cross-pinning of the displacement after reduction. However, iatrogenic ulnar nerve injury is a potentially significant complication. Turkish researchers used two radiographic parameters to assess the connection between pin insertion and nerve damage.
January 26, 2006
Bracco inks Amerinet deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Bracco Diagnostics of Princeton, NJ, has been awarded a contract by group purchasing organization Amerinet.
January 25, 2006
TomoTherapy notches German sale
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy developer TomoTherapy said it has sold four of its TomoTherapy Hi-Art Systems to the German Research Association.
January 25, 2006
VisualSonics licenses contrast agent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Microimaging ultrasound developer VisualSonics of Toronto said that it is licensing a contrast agent for the quantification of myocardial perfusion in preclinical studies from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.
January 25, 2006
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