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Sectra adds FFDM orders
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra has received full-field digital mammography (FFDM) orders from three hospitals in Luxembourg.
November 22, 2009
NRG starts process for new reactor
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Dutch radiopharmaceutical producer Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) has begun the regulatory approval process to build a nuclear reactor to replace its High Flux Reactor.
November 19, 2009
Matrox wins German contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Display controller board provider Matrox Graphics has won a contract with a German company for its Xenia series display controller boards.
November 18, 2009
Investor group leads Esaote buyout
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Biomedical and healthcare equity fund Ares Life Sciences has taken a 40% stake in Italian ultrasound vendor Esaote.
November 18, 2009
Varian, Mirada sign supply pact
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has signed a deal with medical imaging software developer Mirada Medical of Oxford, U.K., for the supply of multimodality image registration technologies.
November 16, 2009
Wireless capsule endoscopy feasible in young children
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 11 - Wireless capsule endoscopy is feasible for detecting small intestinal pathology in children younger than 8 years old, according to a report in the November Gut. However, most children in this age group are unable to swallow the small device, so it needs to be introduced endoscopically.
November 10, 2009
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Automated segmentation could improve fetal heart echo
By Eric Barnes
A new method of segmenting the fetal heart with echocardiography could improve the evaluation of congenital heart defects compared to the time-consuming manual segmentation in use today, according to researchers from the U.K.
November 5, 2009
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GE inks European Vscan evaluation deal
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has announced that it is entering into agreements in Spain and Italy to evaluate its Vscan pocket-sized ultrasound scanner in the clinical setting.
November 4, 2009
Varian nets multifacility install in Portugal
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has announced the sale of seven radiation therapy machines to the Instituto Português Oncologia in Porto, Portugal.
November 1, 2009
In patients with stable chest pain, CT is more often diagnostic than exercise ECG
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 2 - Unlike exercise electrocardiography (XECG), CT angiography is "nearly always" feasible and diagnostic in patients with stable chest complaints, researchers say in the October issue of the journal Heart.
November 1, 2009
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Meta-analysis reveals paucity of advanced neoplasia in small polyps
By Eric Barnes
The prevalence of advanced neoplasia in subcentimeter polyps is extremely rare, according to a new meta-analysis of virtual colonoscopy data from more than 20,000 patients. As a result, the study authors believe that it's unnecessary to incur the costs and risks associated with resecting diminutive colorectal lesions detected at VC.
November 1, 2009
Specialized RT unnecessary for some breast cancer patients
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
CHICAGO - Breast cancer patients who receive radiation treatment to the lymph nodes located behind the breast bone do not have better survival outcomes than patients who don't receive radiation in this difficult-to-treat area.
November 1, 2009
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