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Brainreader launches MRI software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Danish medical device company Brainreader has launched its new Neuroreader software, which is designed to detect changes in a patient's brain volume.

August 3, 2015

Amerinet expands Bracco deal to include US contrast

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Contrast developer Bracco Diagnostics and group purchasing organization Amerinet have added the vendor's Lumason echocardiography contrast agent to their existing contract.

August 3, 2015

Theragenics to distribute ART's AccuBoost

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Brachytherapy seed manufacturer Theragenics and women's health firm Advanced Radiation Therapy (ART) have agreed that Theragenics will distribute ART's AccuBoost technology for the treatment of early-stage breast cancer.

July 29, 2015

Sports-related head injuries spur avalanche of CT scans

By Eric Barnes

Emergency department admissions for sports-related head injuries have skyrocketed in recent years -- and so have unnecessary CT scans to evaluate them, according to a new report in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

July 29, 2015

Shimadzu launches algorithm for DR tomo images

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Shimadzu Medical Systems USA has rolled out a new tomographic image reconstruction algorithm designed to enhance digital radiography (DR) orthopedic images that include implanted metal objects.

July 28, 2015

DBT boosts mammo's specificity, lowers recall rate

By Kate Madden Yee

Adding digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) to conventional mammography boosted the specificity of breast screening and cut the recall of women with benign lesions by more than half, according to a new study published in Radiology. DBT plus mammography also showed sensitivity gains in some groups of women.

July 28, 2015

Mobile stroke unit with CT improves survival, recovery

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Two new studies presented this week at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery meeting in San Francisco concluded that mobile stroke treatment units -- ambulances equipped with CT scanners -- can significantly reduce the time needed to diagnose and treat stroke patients, likely improving survival and boosting chances of recovery.

July 28, 2015

MRI links cardiac risk factors to cognition problems

By Wayne Forrest

MRI scans have demonstrated smaller regional brain volumes in people with certain cardiovascular risk factors, which could put them at risk for developing adverse cognitive issues, according to a study published online July 28 in Radiology.

July 27, 2015

Navidea wins NIH grant

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiopharmaceutical developer Navidea Biopharmaceuticals has received a $321,000 grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

July 27, 2015

New Mayo scoring system predicts CCU patient mortality

By Erik L. Ridley

A predictive scoring system that combines both echocardiography and clinical data can reliably estimate three-year death rates in critical care unit (CCU) patients, according to research from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. The model is built on the fact that more heart patients are dying from noncardiovascular diseases.

July 27, 2015

FDA eyes risks of gadolinium contrast brain deposits

By Wayne Forrest

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday announced that it will investigate the risk of gadolinium-based contrast agents in the wake of several recent studies that found gadolinium deposits in the brains of some patients years after they received contrast-enhanced MRI scans.

July 26, 2015

Software aims for realism in echocardiography

By Eric Barnes

A new echocardiography software package released this month analyzes cardiac structure and function pixel by pixel to render detailed functional 3D images that could speed up diagnosis and reduce the number of exams needed in patients undergoing cardiac workups.

July 26, 2015

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