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ev3 stent gets 510(k)
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device firm ev3 of Plymouth, MN, has received Food and Drug Administration 510(k) marketing clearance for its Protégé GPS nitinol self-expanding long stent.
October 20, 2004
Overexposed? CT in the emergency room
By Eric Barnes
SAN FRANCISCO - Multislice CT scanners can scan a trauma patient from stem to stern in less than a minute. But is trauma CT being overused, or used for the wrong indications? At a talk on Wednesday at the American College of Emergency Physicians annual meeting, Dr. Gene Hern led a whirlwind tour of CT in the trauma setting, offering evidence-based recommendations.
October 20, 2004
Preop US angiography reliably identifies AVM
By Shalmali Pal
SAN FRANCISCO - Ultrasound angiography offers top-notch intraoperative guidance during arteriovenous malformation (AVM) surgery, according to a poster presentation Tuesday at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) meeting.
October 20, 2004
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Beyond CT: Diagnosing the unusual stroke
By Eric Barnes
SAN FRANCISCO - In the fevered race to diagnose patients with vague neurological symptoms, emergency doctors must keep an eye out for unusual stroke types that can require different imaging exams or treatment approaches, according to Dr. E. Bradshaw Bunney, who spoke at the American College of Emergency Physicians annual meeting on Tuesday.
October 19, 2004
GE launches new ultrasound scanners
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Multimodality vendor GE Healthcare has launched two new ultrasound scanners: one a high-end cardiovascular system and the other a compact ultrasound unit.
October 19, 2004
Real-time CT teamed with tracer tracks CED treatment
By Shalmali Pal
SAN FRANCISCO - The latest oncologic technique for treating tumors involves convention-enhanced delivery (CED). But determining whether CED was successful requires the development of imaging tracers for real-time, in-vivo monitoring, according to a presenter Monday at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS).
October 19, 2004
Radiation Therapy Services completes NJ acquisition
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Treatment center operator Radiation Therapy Services of Fort Myers, FL, said that it has closed on a definitive purchase agreement for a third radiation treatment center in New Jersey.
October 18, 2004
Classic 2D time-of-flight MRA aids severe carotid stenosis diagnosis
By Radiology Review
(Radiology Review) Classic 2D time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) had a higher sensitivity and specificity for predicting 70% or greater carotid stenosis, according to radiologists who compared the modality with contrast-enhanced and multiple overlapping thin-slab acquisition (MOTSA) MR.
October 17, 2004
Philips debuts echo system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Medical Systems has added iE33 to its echocardiography product line.
October 17, 2004
Analogic delays 10-K filing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging equipment developer Analogic did not file its annual report on Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by the October 14 deadline.
October 14, 2004
Thoracic CT expert takes on chronic PE diagnosis
By Eric Barnes
Radiologists may believe that chronic pulmonary embolism is harder to diagnose than the acute kind. But the task is as simple and straightforward as acute PE if one knows what to look for, according to Dr. Martine Rémy-Jardin, from the University of Lille in France.
October 14, 2004
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MRI clicks with TMJ diagnosis and treatment
By Shalmali Pal
Considering the uncertainties about TMJ causes and treatment, it's clear that imaging can play an important role in its management. European researchers recently found that MRI may be clinically useful in studying the articular disk and the joint, while a group in Seattle used MRI to evaluate TMJ disk position in patients who had undergone bilateral sagittal split osteotomy. However, MRI's cost can be a disadvantage, according to researchers in Austria.
October 14, 2004
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