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Xograph launches orthopedics PACS product

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Xograph Imaging Systems of Gloucestershire, U.K., has introduced a three-module PACS product for orthopedic surgeons.

August 26, 2003

ONI nets $8.5 million in funding

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Extremity MRI scanner developer ONI has raised $8.5 million in venture financing from Galen Partners, Ivy Healthcare Capital, Sage Hill Partners, and other current investors, according to the Wilmington, MA-based vendor.

August 25, 2003

Color Doppler ultrasound visualizes vascular structures in chest

By Ultrasound Review

(Ultrasound Review) Color Doppler ultrasound provided additional essential information during biopsy of chest tumors, according to investigators from Atatürk University in Erzurum, Turkey.

August 25, 2003

Pairing of CT and PET scans may aid early lung cancer detection

The combined use of low-dose spiral CT and FDG-PET scanning may provide reliable detection of early lung cancer, according to Italian researchers from the National Cancer Institute and the European Institute of Oncology in Milan.

August 21, 2003

FDG-PET, scintigraphy offer a break in fever of unknown origin

By Shalmali Pal

Before they became the object of media obsession, chances are the early symptoms of SARS, West Nile virus, and inhalation anthrax could be pegged as fevers of unknown origin. Diagnosing FUO can be a long and involved process -- one that molecular imaging specialists from Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands are looking to simplify.

August 21, 2003

Price joins VSM Medtech board

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Jack Price, the former president and CEO of Philips Medical Systems North America, has joined the board of directors of Canadian medical device company VSM MedTech of Vancouver, British Columbia, the parent company of magnetoencephalography developer CTF Systems.

August 20, 2003