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November 19, 2009 - The American College of Radiology (ACR) said in a statement on its Web site (www.acr.org) that it is pleased to see that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has reaffirmed that mammography is a vital and lifesaving tool in the battle against breast cancer.
November 19, 2009 
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November 18, 2009 - Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) are enabling radiation oncologists to enhance post-treatment health-related quality of life for patients with head and neck cancer, according to clinical studies presented an educational session for radiotherapy professionals.
November 18, 2009 
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November 18, 2009 - Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers, with a prognosis of just six months to live, and less than 5 percent surviving to five years after diagnosis. While there is available treatment using gemcitabine, sold as Gemzar, it has a response rate of only 5 percent.
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Quest International will be showing the AlphaView AVC1. The AVC1 is a 19 inch, high-brightness, high-contrast LCD display, meeting all the demands of today’s surgical environments. The AVC1 is High-Definition ready, supports mirror image functionality, as well as an 8ms response, the fastest video response time in its class.
November 18, 2009 Technology
Quest International will be showing the AlphaView AVC4. The AVC4 combines the features and requirements of a Medical Display with the advantages of a large-screen LCD. The AVC4 reproduces Diagnostic quality color and grayscale images.
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November 18, 2009 - As radiology drives imaging toward the electronic medical record (EMR), a new PACS offering for EMR, HIS and Practice Management vendors fully integrates the complete range of medical images with EMR software of almost any kind.
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November 18, 2009 - Advanced visualization tools are increasingly important to support radiologists as they diagnose complex MR, CT, SPECT cases. To meet the demands on radiologists to complete reads efficiently, accurately and provide these tools, a workstation should be built on highly scalable architecture and be accessible remotely.
November 18, 2009 
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November 18, 2009 – The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) recently announced it will increase the reimbursement for positron emission tomography (PET) cardiac procedures in 2010.
November 18, 2009 
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November 18, 2009 – Utilizing newer cardiac computed tomography (CT) machines to find plaque and blockages in the coronary arteries led to better survival among those undergoing the test, according to a study presented Sunday at the American Heart Association Meeting in Orlando, Fla.
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November 17, 2009 – Scientists have created a one-step, point-of-care diagnostic test based on a silicon chip that uses a smaller blood sample, is significantly faster, portable, and easier to use than current testing devices used to detect disease markers.
November 18, 2009 
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November 18, 2009 - Referring physicians and their patients now have access to diagnostic images with a new browser-based application for viewing patient images and reports on any computer with an Internet connection.
November 17, 2009 
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November 17, 2009 – Spectral imaging shows promise in characterizing small lesions and eliminating imaging artifacts caused by foreign objects in the body.
November 17, 2009 Sponsored Content
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November 16, 2009 - Chair of the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors James H. Thrall, M.D., FACR, said today he is deeply concerned about U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) mammography recommendations, which would severely limit screening for breast cancer.
November 16, 2009 
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November 16, 2009 - Leica Microsystems has developed the new Leica DFC345 FX digital camera to provide low light fluorescence signals in live cell experiments. Along with high sensitivity and high resolution, the camera features a fast image capture rate and a broad dynamic range, making it ideal for multidimensional live cell observation under low light conditions.
November 15, 2009 Sponsored Content
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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan
How do you define the ideal PACS workstation? There is no single answer just multiple solutions. Which one is right for your radiology department? That depends on the specific challenges facing your healthcare facility.
November 13, 2009 
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November 13, 2009 - Del Global Technologies Corp. said it reached an agreement in Principle with United Marketing Group (UMG) to transfer certain assets and the product lines of Del Medical Imaging from Del Global to UMG. The parties target to have the transaction completed prior to the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) trade show beginning at the end of this month.
November 13, 2009 
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November 13, 2009 – A new imaging agent for measuring and monitoring cathepsin B activity associated with disease progression and therapeutic response in vivo will be released at the American Heart Association meeting in Orlando this weekend.
November 13, 2009 
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November 12, 2009 - Researchers from the University of California, Irvine Medical Center reported that image-guided RapidArc radiotherapy from Varian Medical Systems conformed to the shape and size of a targeted tumor at least as well as dynamic, fixed-beam approaches to IMRT, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) or stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) for treating cancer.
November 12, 2009 
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November 12, 2009 - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) will expand coverage of FDG-PET for the initial staging of cervical cancer without previously imposed restrictions.
November 12, 2009 
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November 12, 2009 - To achieve the HITECH Act's goal of improving healthcare for patients by making it patient-centered, "information should follow the patient, and... should not get in the way," stressed David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., the national coordinator for health information technology, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, in a public statement issued today.
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