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New global proton therapy network formed
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Cancer services provider Proton Therapy and healthcare real estate developer and investor CareCapital have formed Proton Therapy Global Management, a global network of proton therapy centers.
June 29, 2010
Sectra gets Norwegian PACS order
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra has inked an agreement with a public Norwegian hospital chain.
June 29, 2010
High-resolution ultrasound helps in diagnosis of blue skin lesions
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jun 29 - What appears to be a blue nevus might be a cutaneous melanoma metastasis. High-resolution ultrasonography can help dermatologists make the diagnosis, a team in Tours, France, has shown.
June 28, 2010
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CT-based Crohn's diagnosis takes aim at endoscopy
By Eric Barnes
GENEVA - Japanese researchers hope to supplant the invasive and time-consuming process of diagnosing Crohn's disease with a CT technique that is unaffected by intestinal stenosis and other impediments to conventional endoscopic evaluation.
June 28, 2010
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TARGIT-A data show intraoperative RT equals whole-breast radiation
By Cynthia E. Keen
Imagine the effects on quality of life and cost savings if some early-stage breast cancer patients didn't need follow-up radiation therapy (RT) treatments after breast conservation surgery. Results being reported from a major clinical trial indicate that this might be close to reality.
June 28, 2010
CT method measures airway calcium to diagnose lung cancer
By Eric Barnes
A classic duo, CT plus pulmonary function testing using spirometry, may emerge once again as a potentially effective way to diagnose lung cancer, according to an article in the July issue of Academic Radiology.
June 27, 2010
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CAD eases MRI-based herniated disk diagnosis
By Eric Barnes
GENEVA - Herniated lumbar disks aren't the most common back injury, but when they occur they often require surgery. And diagnosis requires tedious manual measurements -- or at least it did until researchers from London found a way to automate the process.
June 27, 2010
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Dutch study quantifies factors that make PACS work
By Eric Barnes
GENEVA - If you really want to find out how well PACS is working at your facility, you can follow your heart, the advice of experts, or the data, as researchers from the Netherlands have done. They discussed their work on quantifying the factors that make PACS useful at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery meeting.
June 24, 2010
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MDS Nordion, Guerbet to develop PET agents
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
MDS Nordion has entered into a collaboration to develop new PET radiotracers for cancer diagnostics.
June 23, 2010
TEPR founder sees big role for small systems in healthcare
By Eric Barnes
GENEVA - Radiology's once-clandestine toys -- mobile phone apps, iPads, iPhones, and the like -- are rising up to assume a central role in healthcare delivery, according to healthcare IT expert C. Peter Waegemann at the opening session of the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery meeting on Wednesday.
June 23, 2010
HIMSS launches HIMSS Analytics Europe
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced the formation of HIMSS Analytics Europe to provide healthcare organizations, governments, and IT companies with data resources and services for adopting and using healthcare IT in Europe.
June 23, 2010
iCRco, GE sign distribution deal
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Computed radiography (CR) firm iCRco has signed a distribution agreement with GE Healthcare for iCRco's CR systems.
June 23, 2010
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