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MRI immediately post MI yields important prognostic clues
By Eric Barnes
CHICAGO - If you're looking for microvessel obstruction in patients with acute myocardial infarction, it's worth the rush to perform cardiac MRI within 48 hours after the event -- and within two minutes of injecting the contrast. You could potentially help your patients live longer.
November 30, 2005
Smith & Nephew debuts RF device to smooth joints
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The endoscopy division of medical device firm Smith & Nephew has released its Glider probe for the minimally invasive treatment of articular cartilage disease, considered a precursor to osteoarthritis.
November 30, 2005
Siemens, BrainLab display NaviVision at RSNA
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions and image-guided therapy developer BrainLab showed the companies' work-in-progress NaviVision system this week at RSNA 2005 in Chicago.
November 30, 2005
Cook unveils new angioplasty balloon catheter
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology developer Cook of Bloomington, IN, has launched its new Advance ATB PTA dilatation catheter.
November 30, 2005
Fine-needle aspiration biopsy useful for smallest lung nodules
By Eric Barnes
CHICAGO - In the RSNA's interventional lung session on Wednesday, Dr. Demetris Patsios from the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, presented a study on the efficacy of MDCT-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of subcentimeter nodules, concluding that FNAB is a useful tool, if less accurate than FNAB of larger lesions.
November 30, 2005
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound aids in grading liver disease
By Erik L. Ridley
CHICAGO - Contrast-enhanced hepatic ultrasound could help grade the severity of liver disease, according to research presented Wednesday at the 2005 RSNA meeting.
November 30, 2005
MRI can't replace x-ray for pediatric growth plate injuries
By Shalmali Pal
CHICAGO - Investigators from Germany sought to determine if MRI could supplant x-ray in accurately diagnosing epiphyseal injuries due to fracture. They reported their results in a presentation at the 2005 RSNA meeting on Wednesday.
November 30, 2005
fMRI study illustrates caffeine boost in brain activity
By Edward Susman
CHICAGO - A new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) shows why many of us get a boost from caffeine. The results were presented Wednesday at the 2005 RSNA conference.
November 30, 2005
Mock MRI exam preps children for the real deal
By Shalmali Pal
CHICAGO - Kids love to play make believe so why shouldn't they do it in a mock MRI scanner? Australian radiologists found that putting children through an MRI simulator reduced the need for sedation.
November 29, 2005
Coronary CTA requires dedication, 64-slice minimum
By Tracie L. Thompson
CHICAGO - Cardiac imaging may have slipped away from radiology in stages over the years, but radiologists can capture the boom in coronary CT angiography if they move fast, train hard, and plan to use at least a 64-slice scanner. Those were some of the views shared by leading practitioners during a lively and opinionated keynote and panel discussion Tuesday at the RSNA meeting.
November 29, 2005
CoActiv launches Exam-PACS-Ortho
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS developer CoActiv Medical Business Solutions has released an orthopedic version of its Exam-PACS.
November 29, 2005
Ultralow-dose lung MDCT may still find ground-glass lesions
By Eric Barnes
CHICAGO - Researchers from Japan presented findings from their study on the use of ultralow-dose CT and the detection of ground-glass lung opacities in a presentation yesterday at RSNA 2005. The results for low-dose CT lung screening advocates are encouraging.
November 29, 2005
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