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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
Tunnel-view x-ray holds the key to locked-knee syndrome
By Shalmali Pal
SAN FRANCISCO - The condylar cut-off sign on x-ray is a quick and easy way to diagnosis discoid lateral meniscus, according to a presentation Thursday at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting.
March 11, 2004
Hyderabad native son provides overview of cardiac imaging
By Brian Casey
U.S. radiologist Dr. Gautham Reddy returned to the city of his birth -- Hyderabad -- to provide IRIA attendees with an overview of the latest techniques in cardiac imaging with MRI and CT.
March 11, 2004
MRI may supplant CT for early stroke assessment
By Brian Casey
MRI may ultimately prove more versatile than CT for early stroke assessment, according to noted MRI expert Dr. William Bradley, who spoke on the topic of MRI in acute stroke at the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association meeting.
March 11, 2004
Principles of Genitourinary Radiology
What this text lacks in up-to-date information, it makes up for with a detailed review of pathology on the older modalities.
March 10, 2004
Thumbs up for MRI in carpometacarpal joint trauma
By Shalmali Pal
When the thumb sustains injury, an x-ray may not be enough, according to Australian musculoskeletal imaging specialists. In a paper published in the Journal of Hand Surgery, Dr. David Connell and colleagues assessed the role of MRI for evaluating the supporting ligaments of the thumb.
March 10, 2004
TDI acts as potential predictor in chronic congestive heart failure
By Jerry Ingram
NEW ORLEANS - Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) may serve as a useful addition in routine follow-up of patients with chronic congestive heart failure, and could potentially predict future cardiac events, according to a presentation this week at the 2004 American College of Cardiology meeting in New Orleans.
March 10, 2004
BrainLab installs first U.S. VectorVision sky site
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image-guided surgery provider BrainLab has installed its first VectorVision sky image-guided surgery system in the U.S.
March 9, 2004
Siemens debuts CT cardiac risk model
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
NEW ORLEANS - Siemens Medical Solutions of Malvern, PA, is highlighting a new method for using multislice CT in connection with other risk factors to predict the likelihood that a patient will have a future cardiac event. The company is demonstrating the technique at this week's American College of Cardiology meeting.
March 9, 2004
Early MRI for low back pain achieves limited benefits
By Tracie L. Thompson
VIENNA - It’s now a given that plain radiographs are no match for the challenge of lower back pain. However, MRI fares better only in some regards, according to a new study presented Tuesday at the European Congress of Radiology.
March 9, 2004
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