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Carestream inks deal with OncoVision
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Carestream Molecular Imaging has signed an exclusive, multiyear, worldwide agreement with OncoVision to sell, market, and service Carestream's Albira PET/SPECT/CT imaging system for small animal research.
April 12, 2010
Paxeramed fills Sudan order, opens new office
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
PACS/RIS software developer Paxeramed has installed its RIS/PACS at Al Zaytouna hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.
April 12, 2010
Spanish study finds speech recognition saves time, money
By Erik L. Ridley
A large study of speech recognition that included nearly 140,000 reports has confirmed the technology's ability to dramatically reduce report turnaround time while saving money. Researchers found that speech recognition slashed turnaround time from about 5.5 hours with conventional transcription to just over one hour.
April 11, 2010
Dying cancer patients need shorter palliative radiation therapy
By Cynthia E. Keen
Radiation oncologists should be less concerned about late-onset radiation dose toxicities when planning palliative radiation therapy protocols for near-death cancer patients, according to a study published online today in Cancer.
April 11, 2010
High rates of silent cerebral emboli after transfemoral aortic valve implantation
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Apr 12 - Silent cerebral embolism is common after transfemoral aortic valve implantation, German researchers report in the April 6 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
April 11, 2010
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Less DNA damage seen after high-pitch coronary CTA
By Eric Barnes
High-pitch dual-source CT angiography (CTA) scans produce significantly less radiation-related DNA damage than comparable low-pitch dual-source CTA scans -- and, importantly, the DNA results correspond to both measured and derived biological radiation doses, say researchers from Erlangen, Germany.
April 8, 2010
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Accelerated radiation therapy improves outcomes of head and neck cancers
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Apr 9 - Accelerated radiation therapy is more effective than conventional fractionation for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, but complications of treatment are more common, investigators report.
April 8, 2010
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Exposure index values vary widely between CR systems
By Brian Casey
Imaging facilities trying to reduce digital x-ray dose are turning to exposure index (EI) values to see how much radiation patients receive. New research indicates that while this is a good idea for digital radiography, it's not so hot for computed radiography (CR) due to wide variation in EI measures.
April 8, 2010
Another PACSMail install for Sybermedica
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
U.K. healthcare software developer Sybermedica has completed an installation of its PACSMail software at a London imaging facility.
April 8, 2010
Ultrasound useful in infants with first urinary tract infection
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Apr 7 - Ultrasound can be useful in the workup of infants with a first urinary tract infection, researchers from Sweden report in the May issue of The Journal of Urology. To learn more about the role of ultrasound, the investigators obtained scans in 290 infants with a first urinary tract infection.
April 6, 2010
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Does mammogram row signal time for policy shift?
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Apr 7 - It's not hard to find a breast cancer survivor who thinks routine mammograms are a good idea. But an increasingly heated international debate is raging about whether women are getting the right information on the merits, and risks, of mammograms.
April 6, 2010
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Concomitant radiochemotherapy best for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Apr 6 - Concomitant chemoradiation is better than sequential therapy for improving survival with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer, according to a patient-level meta-analysis reported online March 29 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
April 5, 2010
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