Clinical News: Page 1168

IBt Bebig partners with Core Oncology

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Brachytherapy developer International Brachytherapy (IBt) Bebig has announced a strategic alliance with Core Oncology.

December 3, 2009

IBA lands Italian install

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has announced a contract with ATreP (Agenzia Provinciale Per la Protonterapia) to open the first gantry-equipped proton therapy center in Italy.

December 2, 2009

Sequential trastuzumab does poorly in European breast cancer study

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 3 - In women with axillary node-positive breast cancer, giving trastuzumab after the end of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation did not significantly reduce their risk of relapse, European researchers report online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

December 2, 2009

Radiation of gangliogliomas is potentially useful only when total resection can't be done

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 3 - In a large series of patients with very rare gangliogliomas, gross total resection (GTR) provided the best outcomes. When only subtotal resection (STR) was possible -- as was often the case -- postoperative radiotherapy improved local control but not survival.

December 2, 2009

Volume-based assessments useful for managing lung nodules detected on CT

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 3 - When noncalcified lung nodules are detected by CT, assessment of their volume and volume-doubling time with repeat CT scans can be useful for deciding the best course of action, new research suggests.

December 2, 2009

Matrox partners with Fuji Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Display controller board provider Matrox Graphics has announced that Fujifilm Europe is shipping the Matrox Xenia Series display controller boards in several of its PACS and mammography systems using Fujifilm Synapse.

December 1, 2009

Chest x-ray CAD fails to boost observer performance

By Erik L. Ridley

CHICAGO - Computer-aided detection (CAD) software may not produce significant improvement in detecting suspicious lesions on chest radiographs, but it's not necessarily the technology's fault, according to research presented Wednesday at the 2009 RSNA meeting in Chicago.

December 1, 2009

Contrast dose halved in coronary CTA

By Eric Barnes

CHICAGO - Contrast doses for CT angiography (CTA) are too high, but they can be lowered substantially with the right equipment and careful attention to technique, according to researchers from Charité University Medical School in Berlin.

December 1, 2009

Trial can't prove PCI to be noninferior to CABG for diabetics with complex CAD

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 1 - A large study of revascularization strategies in diabetics with multivessel coronary artery disease, which set out to show that angioplasty is not inferior to bypass surgery for these patients, could not prove its hypothesis.

November 30, 2009

Coronary CTA edges CMR in a tight race

By Eric Barnes

CHICAGO - In a head-to-head comparison of two closely watched modalities, low-dose dual-source coronary CT angiography (CTA) outperformed cardiac MR (CMR) in sensitivity, specificity, and negative predictive value. But 1.5-tesla CMR countered with better specificity and positive predictive value.

November 30, 2009

Agfa wins contracts for Impax system

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare has acquired more than 50 new worldwide agreements for its Impax PACS.

November 29, 2009

Scientific poster digital format offers potential to transform medium

By Cynthia E. Keen

CHICAGO - Displaying scientific posters in digital format at this year's RSNA meeting allows authors not only to convey facts, graphs, and photos, but also to incorporate some interactive functionality. Onsite digital displays offer huge potential to educate readers in ways that even the best developed paper poster cannot.

November 29, 2009

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