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Cedara partners with i-Dent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Cedara Software division of Merge Healthcare has reported that it has formed a strategic partnership with dental technology company i-Dent Imaging.
November 21, 2005
Chest x-ray CAD reaches reimbursement milestone
By Cynthia E. Keen
Reimbursement is critical for the success of any new imaging technology. Adoption of chest x-ray CAD may have received just that boost following a recent release of an American Medical Association (AMA) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code and a subsequent published non-Medicare resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) code.
November 21, 2005
Two new VC trials under way in Europe
By Eric Barnes
With U.S.-based VC researchers focusing their attention on the ACRIN 6664 trial for virtual colonoscopy, it's worth noting that Europe has some major research irons of its own in the fire. Unlike most trials in the U.S. focusing on average-risk patients, the European initiatives aim to recruit patients who are at higher risk of disease.
November 21, 2005
AuntMinnie.com Cardiac Imaging Radiology Insider
By Eric Barnes
November 20, 2005
Imaging Sciences adds to i-CAT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Dental imaging firm Imaging Sciences International has added an extended field-of-view option for its i-CAT 3D dental imaging system.
November 20, 2005
Understanding the new codes for cardiac CT
The American Medical Association has released new Category III CPT codes that will take effect January 1 for CT and CT angiography studies of the heart and coronary arteries. Healthcare coding consultant Jackie Miller from Coding Strategies of Powder Springs, GA, explains how to use the new codes and details other coding changes to be aware of for radiology.
November 20, 2005
MRI differentiates AMI from myocarditis
By Eric Barnes
Myocarditis or acute myocardial infarction? That is the question for some clinicians when emergency coronary angiography is normal. In fact it can be hard to distinguish the two very different heart problems. But MRI can provide a definitive answer, according to researchers in Paris, who employed early- and late-perfusion MRI sequences in their noninvasive protocol, and found significant differences between the two conditions.
November 20, 2005
Acist debuts CVi
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Contrast injector developer Acist Medical Systems has released its CVi contrast delivery system for cardiovascular angiographic procedures.
November 17, 2005
Hansen raises $30 million
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Robotic technology developer Hansen Medical of Mountain View, CA, has raised $30 million through the sale of series C preferred stock, bringing the total equity investment in the firm to $58 million, according to the company.
November 17, 2005
Hologic notches first MRI sale
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Hologic of Bedford, MA, reported its first sale of an extremity MRI system under a new relationship the company has with Italian medical imaging developer Esaote of Genoa, Italy.
November 17, 2005
Neurognostics signs first distributor
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Functional MRI (fMRI) technology provider Neurognostics has signed up Specified Imaging, a Louisiana-based distributor of medical imaging products, as the first distributor of its MindState product line.
November 17, 2005
MDCT answers most head and neck questions
By Eric Barnes
Owing to its superior characterization of soft tissues, MRI is the modality of choice in head and neck imaging, and is likely to remain so. But the more CT technology improves, and the busier MR scanners get for imaging tasks not easily duplicated, the more CT is being used for head and neck applications.
November 17, 2005
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