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Italian radiologists identify new US signs for ruptured AAA

By Radiology Review

(Radiology Review) Several previously undescribed sonographic signs indicating ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) were recently identified by Italian radiologists. Their retrospective study indicates that sonography could demonstrate direct and indirect signs of aneurysm rupture and expedite surgery in unstable patients.

August 14, 2005

SPECT/CT pilots prostate brachytherapy in community setting

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

It can be difficult to adapt a technique that was developed in an academic venue for use in a community hospital environment. However, a group from Aultman Hospital in Ohio has taken a research-based SPECT/CT immunoscintigraphy-guided radiation therapy methodology developed at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and successfully adopted the protocol into its practice.

August 14, 2005

CT doesn't hurt when evaluating emergency chest pain

By Eric Barnes

Can CT pinpoint the cause of acute chest pain in the emergency room? Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore sought to answer the question by scanning patients who presented to their emergency department with acute chest pain.

August 14, 2005

Toshiba debuts Infinix CB-i

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Toshiba America Medical Systems has introduced its Infinix cardiac biplane (CB-i) flat-panel x-ray system.

August 11, 2005

E-Z-EM joins new Nasdaq index

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Contrast and virtual colonoscopy firm E-Z-EM said it has been chosen to be a founding member of the new Nasdaq Health Care Index.

August 9, 2005

X-ray findings clarify noninflammatory arthropathy

By Tracie L. Thompson

Distinguishing juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) from other diseases is critical because management of the various conditions can differ substantially. Now a group of British researchers is highlighting the distinctions between JIA and a rare genetic disorder known as camptodactyly-arthropathy-coxa vara-pericarditis (CACP) syndrome in the latest issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

August 9, 2005

Coulda, woulda, shoulda: fMRI reveals neuroanatomy of regret

By Shalmali Pal

For most of us regret is all too familiar, an emotion that arises when we make a choice that turns out to be disadvantageous. But what is the specific brain change that takes place when we experience regret? French and British researchers used functional MRI (fMRI) to find an answer.

August 8, 2005

XRI adds Lahey Clinic install

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medical imaging distributor XRI has installed a Dilon 6800 gamma camera from Dilon Technologies of Newport News, VA, at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA.

August 7, 2005

Even in pregnancy, CT rules for ruling out PE

By Eric Barnes

There's no cause for misgivings when CT pulmonary angiography is needed to rule out pulmonary embolism in a pregnant woman. CTPA not only provides the most definitive diagnosis available in such patients, it does so with less radiation than scintigraphy.

August 7, 2005

Imix wins Florida installation

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Digital radiography developer Imix ADR of Tampere, Finland, has won a deal to install its DR technology at an orthopedic practice in Florida.

August 4, 2005

Colon CAD: VC's extra eyes face new challenges

By Eric Barnes

Prototype colon CAD systems are proliferating, and thanks to years of painstaking development work they're doing a pretty good job, outperforming all but the best radiologists in the detection of colonic lesions. VC CAD expert Dr. Hiro Yoshida from Harvard Medical School in Boston discusses the major innovations that have produced today's complex CAD systems, and the moving target CAD developers face in keeping up with new performance standards.

August 4, 2005

Medstrat gets FDA nod

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Orthopedic imaging informatics developer Medstrat has received Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its echoeSystem orthopedic PACS software.

August 3, 2005

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