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Given Imaging gets expanded BCBS coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The policy, which became effective on March 1, covers an exam for suspected Crohn’s disease without evidence of disease on conventional diagnostic tests.
March 16, 2004
Xograph, ONI form MRI partnership
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gloucestershire-based Xograph will be offering ONI’s OrthOne 1-tesla extremity MRI system to facilities in the U.K.
March 16, 2004
GE debuts new options for FluoroTrak 9800
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Waukesha, WI, launched new visualization and navigation options for its FluoroTrak 9800 Plus C-arm at last week’s American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting in San Francisco.
March 16, 2004
Ex-Instrumentarium units merge
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Former Instrumentarium C-arm companies Instrumentarium Imaging Ziehm of Nuremberg, Germany, and Instrumentarium Imaging Ziehm of Riverside, CA, have merged to form a new company called Ziehm Imaging.
March 16, 2004
VC researchers push for study quality, consistency
By Eric Barnes
In a recent editorial published in Radiology, Dr. Abraham Dachman from the University of Chicago and Dr. Michael Zalis from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston present their case for improved standardization of virtual colonoscopy study and reporting methods.
March 16, 2004
IS2 debuts cardiac gamma camera
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera developer IS2 Medical Systems has released PULSEcdc, a compact cardiac gamma camera able to provide all-digital event positioning, according to the Ottawa, Ontario-based firm.
March 15, 2004
ScImage, Stryker in orthopedic PACS deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS provider ScImage is teaming up with orthopedic medical device firm Stryker to offer an orthopedic-focused imaging and information management system based on ScImage’s PICOMEnterprise system.
March 15, 2004
MSCT beats x-ray in diagnosing TKA osteolysis
By Brian Casey
SAN FRANCISCO - These days, it seems that just about everything is better with multislice CT. In orthopedic imaging, multislice CT is proving more effective than conventional radiography in finding lesions caused by osteolysis that result as a complication of total knee arthroscopy, according to a presentation Friday at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) meeting.
March 14, 2004
EP MedSystems shows downturn for 2003
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Electrophysiology device developer EP MedSystems of West Berlin, NJ, reported financial results for its fourth quarter and 2003 fiscal year (end-December 31).
March 11, 2004
Fantastic voyage takes capsule endoscopy to India
By Brian Casey
One of the latest trends in gastrointestinal imaging is like a scene from the 1966 sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage: Patients swallow a small capsule outfitted with a miniature camera that snaps pictures as it passes through the small bowel. From its origins in Israel, capsule endoscopy has made the passage to India, where researchers at a Hyderabad hospital are putting it through its paces.
March 11, 2004
LTMG group explores virtual colonoscopy for TB
By Brian Casey
In western countries, virtual colonoscopy has piqued interest as a means of detecting colon cancer less invasively than endoscopy-based methods such as colonoscopy. It could play that role as well in India, but VC could also have other applications, such as the detection of tuberculosis, according to a group from LTMG Hospital and Medical College in Mumbai.
March 11, 2004
Ultrasound may offer earlier typhoid detection
By Brian Casey
Typhoid fever is endemic in India, being the fifth most common infectious disease in the country. Ultrasound could fill a diagnosis gap and assume a role in the early detection of typhoid, according to results presented by Hyderabad researchers at the IRIA show.
March 11, 2004
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