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Novel PET/CT tracer helps detect prostate cancer recurrence
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
German researchers are reporting early success in performing PET/CT with a novel gallium-68-labeled prostate-specific membrane antigen ligand to detect prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy.
May 5, 2015
Lantheus grows Q1 revenues, swings into black
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lantheus Medical Imaging saw 2% growth in revenues for the first quarter of 2015, while the firm swung into the black from the net loss reported in the same quarter a year ago.
May 5, 2015
New CT-based liver segmentation tool proves fast and accurate
By Eric Barnes
Liver segmentation, used to obtain liver volumes when planning for major interventions, can be automated without loss of accuracy compared to manual measurements, cutting procedure time by more than half, according to a new study in Academic Radiology.
May 5, 2015
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Knee MRI prices can vary almost 8-fold across the U.S.
By Kate Madden Yee
The price of an outpatient noncontrast MRI scan of the knee can vary across the U.S. by almost eightfold, according to a new study in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. The finding sheds light on an increasingly consumer-driven healthcare environment, researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, wrote.
May 5, 2015
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Quantum completes Idaho installation
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Quantum Medical Imaging has installed its Q-Rad-Digital DRX digital radiography system at Saint Alphonsus Joint Preservation and Reconstruction Clinic in Boise, ID.
May 4, 2015
Gadolinium contrast retention raises new safety questions
By Wayne Forrest
A new study by Japanese researchers published on May 5 in Radiology confirms previous findings that traces of gadolinium contrast remain in the brains of people who receive contrast-enhanced MRI scans. The results are raising new questions about the safety of gadolinium-based contrast, such as whether the deposits are harmful.
May 4, 2015
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Lantheus touts new PET agent study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lantheus Medical Imaging is touting a phase III study of its flurpiridaz F-18 investigational PET agent for myocardial perfusion imaging, with data presented at the International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT in Madrid.
May 3, 2015
Image Information scores contract with Phillies
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
RIS/PACS vendor Image Information Systems has been selected by Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies for its in-stadium digital image management system.
May 3, 2015
Report: Nuclear medicine market to hit $2.2B by 2020
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The worldwide nuclear medicine imaging market for PET and SPECT equipment is on track to produce $2.2 billion in revenues by 2020, according to a new report by RnR Market Research.
April 30, 2015
MRI shows how cheap wine can taste so good
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
It has been said that the best wine is the one that tastes good to you, regardless of price. German researchers put that axiom to the test by investigating whether preconceived ideas about price and quality could actually change brain chemistry.
April 30, 2015
CT reveals cardioembolic stroke that echo misses
By Eric Barnes
Echocardiography may be the de facto gold standard for cardiac evaluation of patients suspected of having cardioembolic stroke, but it isn't necessarily the best modality. A new study from Saudi Arabia used CT to discover several thrombi that echo had missed, along with other conditions.
April 30, 2015
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Breast screening after 75; contrast US obviates CT in kids; x-ray of child abuse
By Brian Casey
April 29, 2015
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