Clinical News: Page 1153

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

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

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