March 29, 2010 - Leaders in pediatric imaging will highlight the unique concerns associated with the imaging of children, and steps manufacturers can take to reduce radiation exposure to patients, at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Public Meeting: Device Improvement to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging March 30-31 in Gaithersburg, Md.
March 29, 2010 - As the applications in nuclear medicine become more widely adopted and a larger part of mainstream imaging, software solutions are integrating positron emission tomography / computed tomography (PET/CT) into picture archiving and communication systems (PACS).
With more than 60 percent of U.S. breast imaging facilities offering digital mammography and more acquiring digital services each month, access to digital mammography is on a solid growth track. Now with new clinical results showing digital mammography exposes patients to 22 percent less radiation than film mammography, digital is about to hit another growth spurt.
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March 29, 2010 - Medical industry leaders gather this week to discuss steps manufacturers of CT and fluoroscopy systems can take to reduce unnecessary patient exposure to ionizing radiation.
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March 26, 2010 - For a patient with heart failure, checking whether the heart could benefit from bypass surgery or a stent is critical to ensuring survival.
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March 26, 2010 - The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) announces an innovative addition to the educational sessions at the upcoming SIIM 2010 Annual Meeting, June 3-6 in Minneapolis - "vendor tie-in" sessions sharing corporate vision in context with the educational material.
March 26, 2010 - Completing in excess of 30 digital mammography studies per day and a large number of general studies and ultrasound, Troy Internal Medicine, P.C., one of Michigan’s largest internal medicine groups, needed a solution to help manage its existing workflow and allow it to grow its services.
March 25, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a new chest X-ray detection solution to aid in lung nodule detection.
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March 25, 2010 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has elected the officials to serve on ASTRO's Corporate Advisory Council. The goal of the council is to focus on issues of mutual concern to all corporate members and to increase awareness of radiation therapy and advance the science and practice of radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer.
March 25, 2010 - Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), a leader in the Southeast’s medical education, research and patient care, is bringing new medical image exchange technology to its hospital.
March 25, 2010 - Elastography is a newly developed dynamic technique that uses ultrasound (US) to provide an estimation of tissue stiffness by measuring the degree of distortion under the application of an external force. US elastography has been applied to differentiate malignant from benign lesions.1
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March 24, 2010 - Among the top oncology information management software companies reviewed in a recent Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards report, Varian Medical System's ARIA Oncology Information Management Software ranked No. 1.
March 24, 2010 - Technologists and radiologists provided input during hundreds of screening sites to develop a totally new mammography platform designed to optimize image quality, patient comfort and enable faster imaging.
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March 24, 2010 - “The NCBC stands as a testament to collaboration, cooperation and camaraderie,” said NCBC President Don Dizon, M.D., FACP, at the 20th Annual National Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Conference, hosted by National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC) on March 20 - 24, 2010 in Las Vegas.
March 24, 2010 - As part of the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and with funding funding provided by the U.S. Government, a team of technicians from the United States installed seven portable X-ray/digital computed radiography (CR) systems and equipment throughout Nigeria, Africa.
March 24, 2010 - A moderately aggressive hypofractionation schedule can be used along with chemotherapy, with low side effects, according to the first published results from a study on the concurrent use of hypofractionated TomoTherapy radiation treatments and chemotherapy for unresectable locally-advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
March 23, 2010 – Frost and Sullivan gave a 2010 North American New Product Innovation Award to Positron Corp. for its pioneering cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, the Attrius.
March 24, 2010 - The FDA 510(k) has issued marketing clearance for a PACS (picture archive and communication system), which has added viewing capabilities for digital mammography studies for diagnostic interpretation using FDA approved monitors.
March 23, 2010 - When imaging the brain, time is critical as vascular abnormalities can have a profound effect on patients’ lives if not diagnosed quickly. A new tool aims to help healthcare facilities diagnose disease with greater accuracy and speed when doing an magnetic resonance angiography study (MRA) on the brain.