Clinical News: Page 1145

Sectra installs mammo units in Norway

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography developer Sectra has installed three Sectra MicroDose Mammography full-field digital mammography units at a Norwegian imaging services provider.

November 1, 2009

OR Technology adds Netherlands vet install

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

German image processing and PACS firm OR Technology has announced the purchase of a Medici 1717 DR upgrade kit from the veterinary practice Dierenklinik Kerkelande in Hilversum, Netherlands.

October 29, 2009

IBA launches proton rental program

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has launched a rental program designed to enable hospitals and cancer centers to offer proton therapy for their cancer patients.

October 29, 2009

Merge and Medrad extend European reach

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Healthcare IT and advanced visualization developer Merge Healthcare and contrast injector technology firm Medrad have announced an expansion in the distribution of CADstream, Merge's dedicated MRI CAD software, into the European market.

October 29, 2009

Rogan-Delft validates Matrox boards

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Display provider Matrox Graphics announced that Netherlands-based Rogan-Delft has validated Matrox Xenia series display controller boards for its Zillion radiology workstations.

October 29, 2009

Concurrent chemo + radiation increases survival in advanced head, neck cancer

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 29 - Giving chemotherapy during radiotherapy to patients with locally advanced, nonresected head or neck carcinoma nearly doubles their average overall survival and more than doubles their event-free survival, compared to giving the treatments separately, research indicates.

October 28, 2009

Risk of thyroid cancer increased in childhood cancer survivors

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 28 - Childhood cancer survivors are 18 times more likely to develop thyroid cancer than the general population, U.K. researchers report.

October 27, 2009

Diagnosis, abortion of Down's babies rising in U.K.

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Oct 27 - A rise in older women becoming pregnant has led to a big jump in Down's syndrome diagnoses in Britain, but fewer babies are born with the condition because more than 90 percent are aborted, researchers said on Tuesday.

October 26, 2009

Functional MRI may help with prognosis for comatose patients

By Wayne Forrest

French researchers have found good agreement between functional MRI (fMRI) and FDG-PET in assessing brain function in comatose patients. Their research indicates that fMRI potentially could help guide treatment of these individuals.

October 25, 2009

Ignoring breast CAD detections cuts sensitivity

By Eric Barnes

Computer-aided detection (CAD) is effective at finding breast cancers -- including lesions that would have otherwise been missed by experienced radiologists. Unfortunately, CAD's overall benefit is diluted by the downside of radiologists ignoring true-positive CAD marks.

October 22, 2009

Infinitt establishes European subsidiary

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

RIS/PACS vendor Infinitt North America and Infinitt Healthcare have established a subsidiary in Europe.

October 22, 2009

Siemens hits milestone Biograph mCT install

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has delivered its first Biograph mCT hybrid molecular imaging system in the U.K.

October 20, 2009

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