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Dual-source CT can reduce radiation exposure with optimization protocols

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 12 - Radiation exposure can be reduced using dual-source CT instead of 16- or 64-slice CT for coronary angiography, but only if dose optimization protocols are used, according to a report in the August 15 issue of Heart.

August 11, 2009

Biotronics3D, Merge partner

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Imaging software developer Biotronics3D and Merge Healthcare have teamed to release three Biotronics3D applications for downloading from Merge's eFilm Web site.

August 11, 2009

Noncontrast CT with PET reduces melanoma radiation dose

By Wayne Forrest

Using a low-dose protocol and eliminating contrast from the CT portion of PET/CT studies resulted in only slightly lower sensitivity for detecting metastases in melanoma patients, while delivering less radiation and no exposure to potential contrast reactions, German researchers found.

August 11, 2009

GE installs first Discovery SPECT/CT

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare has completed the first installations of its new cadmium zinc telluride-based SPECT/CT nuclear cardiology camera, Discovery NM/CT 570c.

August 10, 2009

Siemens extends Avingtrans pact

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has extended its contract with engineering technology group Avingtrans to provide Siemens with MRI products through October 2010.

August 10, 2009

Delayed return of fecal blood tests may miss colorectal cancers

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 11 - Due to hemoglobin degradation, delayed return of fecal occult blood tests may cause doctors to miss colorectal adenomas and possibly also overt malignancy, according to a report in the International Journal of Cancer for August 15.

August 10, 2009

Cognitive deficits seen with radiotherapy for low-grade glioma

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 11 - Long-term survivors of low-grade glioma who were treated with radiotherapy show a progressive decline in attentional functioning not seen in their peers who were managed without radiotherapy, new research indicates.

August 10, 2009

Limiting radiation field cuts risk of breast cancer in Hodgkin's survivors

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)m, Aug 11 - Women treated with radiation therapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma before age 41 are at high risk for breast cancer, but a reduction in radiation volume can lower this risk, according to a study published online Monday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

August 10, 2009

Some stenoses go undiagnosed with 64-slice CCTA

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Anatomic discordance and, in some cases, the reader's failure to accurately quantify intermediate stenosis, results in limited per-segment sensitivity for 64-detector-row coronary CT angiography (CCTA), concludes a new study in the August issue of Radiology.

August 9, 2009

Totoku closes European office

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Japanese display provider Totoku has closed its European office, effective July 1. The Tokyo-based firm will maintain a European presence at the offices of distributor Rein EDV in Willich, Germany.

August 9, 2009

IBA partners with Advion BioSystems

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has become a worldwide, nonexclusive sales agent for the Advion NanoTek microfluidic synthesis system from Advion BioSystems of Ithaca, NY.

August 9, 2009

How I do it: CT perfusion in functional tumor imaging

By Rob Skelding

Many hospitals make the decision to acquire CT perfusion technology and software primarily for stroke diagnosis; however, the technique can also yield valuable results in functional tumor imaging. That's according to Dr. Ken Miles, who explains how to optimize CT perfusion protocols to produce accurate and consistent tumor imaging results.

August 6, 2009

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