Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 19

Groups launch registry to promote SPECT for prostate cancer

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The Oncidium Foundation and Telix Pharmaceuticals have launched a registry to promote the use of SPECT with a prostate-specific membrane antigen agent for prostate cancer detection.

April 20, 2021

Siemens Healthineers completes Varian acquisition

By Brian Casey

It's been called the biggest acquisition in healthcare this year, and now it's a done deal. Siemens Healthineers announced on Thursday that its purchase of Varian Medical Systems is complete. The purchase instantly makes Siemens the dominant player in the global radiation therapy market.

April 14, 2021

Developing radiotherapy for breast cancer patients in COVID-19 era

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Researchers in Leeds, U.K., who led a five-year study on the efficacy and late-normal tissue effects of hypofractionated radiotherapy for breast cancer patients have praised the speed at which the treatment was implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 8, 2021

Sun Nuclear launches new facility in the Netherlands

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation oncology software developer Sun Nuclear has opened a new facility in Breda, the Netherlands.

March 28, 2021

IBA reports revenue rebound in 2020

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Proton therapy developer Ion Beam Applications (IBA) bounced back with growth of 10.4% in revenues in 2020 after reporting reduced revenues for the first half of the year due to challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 28, 2021

High-field versus low-field MRI: Is it time for a rethink?

By Frances Rylands-Monk

The long-running debate over field-strength in MRI has divided scientists for decades and caused immeasurable damage, but there now appears to be a growing consensus that multiple different techniques can flourish and complement each other.

March 18, 2021

AI reduces FDG dose on PET imaging

By Kate Madden Yee

A European team of researchers has found that an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm can process F-18 FDG PET exams acquired at two-thirds of the standard radiopharmaceutical dose and produce diagnostically effective images, according to a study published on 9 March in EJNMMI Physics.

March 11, 2021

Brainlab acquires reporting software firm Mint Medical

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Image-guided therapy firm Brainlab has purchased radiology software developer Mint Medical in a deal aimed at broadening its oncology offerings and making radiology reports more automated and data-driven.

March 10, 2021

Elekta claims win in legal dispute with Livian

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation oncology vendor Elekta said the London Court of International Arbitration has ruled in its favor in a legal dispute with German firm Livian, formerly humediQ.

March 8, 2021

Kuhl provides master class on breast MRI at ECR 2021

By Frances Rylands-Monk

Not everything that glitters is gold, and not everything that enhances in breast MRI is due to breast cancer. That was one of the core messages of Prof. Dr. Christiane Kuhl, PhD, chair of radiology at Aachen University Hospital in Germany, in her ECR talk on how to identify malignant lesions on MRI.

March 8, 2021

NorthStar, IBA expand Tc-99m collaboration

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes and proton therapy developer Ion Beam Applications (IBA) are expanding their collaboration in an effort to increase the supply of technetium-99m (Tc-99m) around the world.

March 7, 2021

Whole-body MRI helps cancer patients where FDG-PET fails

By Wayne Forrest

FDG-PET/CT is the modality of choice for staging and assessing cancer patients, but whole-body MRI can make a valuable contribution to detection and diagnoses where the hybrid modality underperforms, ECR 2021 registrants learned at a special session on Sunday evening.

March 7, 2021

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