Ultrasound: Page 76

Carestream promises to shake up ultrasound market

By Brian Casey

Carestream Health has roots in the x-ray film business, but the company sees ultrasound in its corporate future. The firm is entering the sonography market in a big way with Carestream Touch, a superpremium ultrasound system with a novel design that replaces the traditional scanner keyboard with a programmable touchscreen control panel.

November 19, 2014

Belgian-led team develops model for ovarian tumors

By Rebekah Moan

Researchers from Belgium have crafted a model that discriminates between benign and malignant ovarian tumors, and it also distinguishes between the four types of ovarian malignancy. The model has implications for triage and management decisions, they said.

November 12, 2014

GE, Takeda team up to tackle liver disease

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare and Takeda Pharmaceutical have inked an agreement to develop new therapeutic drugs for liver disease.

November 10, 2014

3D ultrasound goes ultrafast

By Jon Cartwright

Scientists in France have developed a new type of ultrasound that can produce 3D videos at thousands of frames per second. It builds on 2D ultrafast ultrasound, and has already enabled its creators to witness blood flowing through the chambers of a human heart in real-time.

November 10, 2014

Siemens debuts new Acuson X600 scanner

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has unveiled a new ultrasound scanner, Acuson X600, for general imaging, ob/gyn, and cardiology.

November 2, 2014

UEMS endorses European guidelines on storage of ultrasound images, reports

By Rebekah Moan

The council of the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes (UEMS) has endorsed -- with only a slight amendment -- best practice guidance published last year by the European Society of Radiology and the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.

October 30, 2014

MR-guided HIFU proves safe for liver ablation

By Jon Cartwright

MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (MR-HIFU) is "sufficiently reliable and safe" to begin clinical trials in the liver. That's according to researchers in Finland and the Netherlands, who have assessed the use of the technique in a clinically acceptable setting.

October 29, 2014

Shear-wave elastography shows promise for breast cancer

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Shear-wave elastography is poised to become an important tool for detecting breast cancer, according to a new report by research and consulting firm GlobalData.

October 28, 2014

CIRSE: Interventional radiology can help diabetes patients

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Interventional radiology is playing a more significant role in improving the quality of life for people with diabetes, according to several speakers at the recent Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) annual congress in Glasgow, Scotland.

October 13, 2014

Mindray debuts new ultrasound scanner

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Mindray Medical International has released DC-70, a color Doppler diagnostic ultrasound scanner.

October 8, 2014

Echo spots heart trouble signs in obese kids

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Obese youth have physical signs of nascent heart problems that can be identified on echocardiography scans, according to a German study published online October 8 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

October 8, 2014

Fuji SonoSite upgrades SonoAccess app

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Ultrasound developer Fujifilm SonoSite has released version 2.0 of its SonoAccess mobile ultrasound training app.

October 6, 2014

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