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Functional MRI shows how brain lets you smell that smell

By Shalmali Pal

Researchers from the U.S. and Austria used fMRI to demonstrate how two different areas of the brain respond to varying degrees of pleasant and unpleasant smells.

February 13, 2003

CAD helps solve CT lung screening dilemma

By Brian Casey

CT lung cancer screening may sound like a great idea, but the reality of nodule detection is nettlesome. The target population is huge, the scans are tedious to read, and screening studies can produce boatloads of suspicious nodules, all of which must be followed up in a systematic fashion.

February 13, 2003

Lung CAD applications starting to outread radiologists

By Eric Barnes

Radiologists who screen for lung cancer have one of the toughest jobs in the field. Help is on the way, however, in the form of emerging lung CAD applications that make CT lung screening more practical. At the RSNA meeting in Chicago, several groups presented their latest efforts to develop such applications.

February 12, 2003

Aurora gets OK for interventional breast MRI

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Breast MRI developer Aurora Imaging Technology of North Andover, MA, has received FDA clearance for an interventional system that can be added to its Aurora dedicated breast MRI scanner.

February 11, 2003

Ultrasound rivals MRI in PTT imaging

By Erik L. Ridley

Early recognition of posterior tibial tendon dysfunction is critical in preventing irreversible deformity and disability, according to researchers from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. While MRI has been the mainstay diagnostic modality for PTT pathology, tendon sonography has recently gained in popularity.

February 11, 2003

MRI, clinical examination confer equal diagnostic benefit in orthopedic injuries

A clinical examination is as accurate as MRI for the diagnosis of meniscal tears and an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture, researchers reported at the 2002 meeting of the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons this month in New Orleans.

February 10, 2003

Ground-glass lung lesions on CT are treatable with limited excision

By Edward Susman

Japanese researchers are relying on high-resolution CT to spot increasingly smaller lung lesions, according to a presentation at the 2002 Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting in San Diego earlier this month.

February 9, 2003

Differential Diagnosis in Pediatric Radiology

Those seeking an illustrated guide to differential diagnosis in pediatric imaging will be very satisfied with this book. In particular, the authors excel in their presentation of plain-film radiology.

February 9, 2003

PET useful for staging pediatric bone sarcomas

NEW ORLEANS - PET imaging can detect metastases missed by CT and technetium bone scans in children with bone sarcomas, according to a presentation Thursday at the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting.

February 6, 2003

Waist size predicts optimal CT dose in virtual colonoscopy

By Eric Barnes

Conforming CT protocols to the patient's body mass can help determine the lowest radiation dose needed to provide diagnostic-quality images. Virtual colonoscopy providers in the Netherlands appear to have found a way to quantify the process without overcomplicating it.

February 6, 2003

Alara receives densitometer patents

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Bone densitometry developer Alara of Hayward, CA, has received two U.S. patents, 6,490,339 and 6,510,197, for its MetriScan peripheral bone densitometer.

February 5, 2003

Vital Images releases new Vitrea version

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Three-dimensional-software developer Vital Images has released version 3.2 of its Vitrea 2 3-D visualization and analysis software for CT and MR image data.

February 4, 2003

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