Clinical News: Page 1058

Report: Global RIS/PACS market primed for growth

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Driven by the need for increased operational efficiency in hospitals, the global integrated RIS/PACS market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 10% through 2014, according to a report from market research firm TechNavio.

July 25, 2011

Germans support imaging arrhythmia patients with single-beat CT

By Rebekah Moan

Single-beat cardiac CT not only allows for dose reduction and high accuracy, but also for greater flexibility in imaging patients with arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, and shortness of breath, said a researcher from Charité Medical University in Berlin.

July 25, 2011

FDG-PET/CT helps detect sarcoidosis in extremities

By Wayne Forrest

Researchers from Maastricht University Medical Centre in the Netherlands discovered a substantial number of sarcoidosis cases in the extremities using FDG-PET/CT, whereas a majority of those same lesions could not be detected by low-dose CT.

July 24, 2011

Siemens installs new digital fluoroscopy system

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has introduced a new dual digital fluoroscopy and radiography system in the U.K.

July 21, 2011

Uncertainty surrounds benefits of PET in malignant melanoma

By Cynthia E. Keen

The value of PET or PET/CT scans to diagnose and stage malignant skin melanoma is unclear, according to a report published by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care on 20 July.

July 21, 2011

Interruptions occur often and need auditing, CT study finds

By Philip Ward

A group of researchers in the west of Scotland think there should be a more robust system for recording interruptions during reporting sessions, and a software update for logging interruptions in a hospital's RIS would be helpful for the purpose of an audit.

July 21, 2011

Radiology plays key role in pediatric thoracic emergencies

By Cynthia E. Keen

Children who are having difficulty breathing or swallowing are among the most common patients admitted to hospital emergency departments. Radiologists can help clinicians make a rapid diagnosis, start the appropriate treatment, and avoid complications in these nontraumatic thoracic emergency cases.

July 20, 2011

5-day brachytherapy proves effective for endometrial cancer

By Cynthia E. Keen

Four-year results of a clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of a five-day high-dose-rate brachytherapy treatment for endometrial cancer are proving comparable to more protracted courses of treatment, according to a study by Spanish researchers.

July 20, 2011

Elekta touts SBRT research

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Oncology firm Elekta said that recent research from Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto showed favorable clinical results from treating early-stage, non-small cell lung cancer with its stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) technology.

July 19, 2011

Losing turf to radiographers; 3T MRI of knee; airport scanners

By Philip Ward

July 19, 2011

iSi 2011: Ikeda voices confidence in BI-RADS update

By Frances Rylands-Monk

The forthcoming update to the BI-RADS MRI lexicon should help to resolve ambiguity arising from the varied descriptions of enhancement in reports, according to Dr. Debra Ikeda. At the recent International Symposium on State-of-the-Art Imaging (iSi 2011), she discussed how the update will include the relatively new concept of background parenchymal enhancement.

July 19, 2011

Cardiovascular MRI sheds light on cardiomyopathy

By Wayne Forrest

Cardiovascular MRI has revealed that stress cardiomyopathy may have broader clinical characteristics than previously reported, including younger patients, men, and patients without an identifiable stressful cause, according to a study in the July 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

July 18, 2011

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