Ultrasound: Page 86

Implanted ultrasound device opens up blood-brain barrier

By Tami Freeman, PhD

The blood-brain barrier prevents most drugs from entering the brain and is a major obstacle in the use of chemotherapy to treat brain tumors. Applying focused ultrasound pulses, combined with microbubble-based ultrasound contrast agents, can temporarily open the barrier and enable drug penetration, according to researchers from France.

September 8, 2013

SonoSite earns CE Mark for ultrasound kiosk

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Ultrasound developer SonoSite has received the CE Mark for its X-Porte ultrasound kiosk for point-of-care ultrasound scanning.

September 5, 2013

Philips, Focused Ultrasound Foundation sign research deal

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare and The Focused Ultrasound Foundation have formed an ultrasound therapy research venture with The Institute of Cancer Research in London, and The Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust.

September 5, 2013

GE wins CE Mark for latest version of Vivid E9

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare has received the CE Mark for the latest version of its Vivid E9 cardiovascular ultrasound scanner, the company said.

September 3, 2013

ESC: Imaging prior to noncardiac surgery may not be needed

By Becky McCall

AMSTERDAM - The value of medical imaging prior to noncardiac surgery for preoperative cardiac risk assessment may have been overstated. Importantly, guidelines issued in 2009 are considered insecure and may need to be rewritten, according to an expert at this week's European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting.

September 3, 2013

Philips unveils ultrasound, cardiac technologies at ESC

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare plans to unveil a suite of cardiac imaging products and the new EPIQ ultrasound platform at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress.

September 1, 2013

Imaging may contribute to excessive thyroid treatment

By Erik L. Ridley

In some countries, thyroid cancer has been one of the fastest-growing diagnoses over the past 30 years. In other nations, however, malignancy rates have remained stable. What's behind the discrepancy? Researchers believe that aggressive use of imaging could be leading to overdiagnosis of thyroid disorders, according to a new analysis in BMJ.

August 27, 2013

ContextVision sales drop in Q2, signs new Asian partner

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Lower ultrasound sales in the Asian market contributed to an 8% drop in second-quarter sales for image enhancement developer ContextVision.

August 25, 2013

Breast cancer looks the same in younger, older women

By Rebekah Moan

Women younger than 40 with breast cancer do not have different imaging characteristics than their older counterparts, but they do have similar genetic profiles, which have a different distribution in young women compared with the general population, French researchers have found.

August 22, 2013

New elastography technique measures breast tissue stiffness

By Rebekah Moan

A new breast elastography technique is demonstrating promise as a reliable method for measuring the stiffness of healthy breast tissue. Standard values proposed by the German researchers may even differentiate parenchyma and fatty tissue from breast lesions.

August 15, 2013

SonaCare highlights U.K. urology study

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

High-intensity focused ultrasound developer SonaCare Medical is highlighting a new study published online in BJU International on the use of its Sonablate 500 system to treat prostate cancer.

July 30, 2013

Terason debuts 1st uSmart ultrasound system

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Ultrasound developer Terason has introduced the first in its new uSmart family of ultrasound scanners.

July 30, 2013

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