Clinical News: Page 1174

Threats to ultrahigh-field MRI in Europe

By Denis Le Bihan

A new European directive designed to prevent workers from being exposed to high magnetic fields could potentially have a severe impact on MRI research, warns Denis Le Bihan, director of the NeuroSpin intense-field neuroimaging project at the CEA-Saclay Center in Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

October 8, 2009

FDG-PET uptake helps predict vascular events in cancer patients

By Wayne Forrest

German researchers have discovered that FDG uptake in major arteries is the "strongest predictor of a subsequent vascular event" in cancer patients, with severe calcification also indicating high risk, according to an article published in the October issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

October 8, 2009

European x-ray, mammo market going digital

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European general radiography market now features the near-ubiquitous use of digital systems, and the mammography sector is also well on its way, according to a report by market research firm InMedica.

October 7, 2009

DEXA gets nod for kids with cystic fibrosis

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) exams can help identify bone mineral density reduction in children diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as young as age 5, according to researchers from Italy.

October 7, 2009

Axillary ultrasound can help avoid sentinel node biopsy surgery

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 8 - Use of axillary ultrasound combined with fine-needle aspiration cytology can prevent unnecessary sentinel lymph node biopsy in roughly 30% of node-positive, early breast cancer patients, researchers said this week at a press briefing for the 2009 Breast Cancer Symposium in San Francisco.

October 7, 2009

RSA completes German install

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

RSA Biomedical has installed its mdesk orthopedic preoperative planning and templating system at Lubinus Clinicum in Kiel, Germany.

October 5, 2009

Austrian study uses MDCT to uncover tale of 12 mummies

By Nicole Pettit

Following the path of King Tut, Nefertiti, and other famed Egyptian figures, a collection of 500- to 1,000-year-old Chachapoyan mummies from northern Peru has now gone under the CT scanner -- a first in the study of this Andean people, according to research in the European Journal of Radiology.

October 4, 2009

Siemens nets U.K. ultrasound installs

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has installed nine ultrasound scanners at Barnet Hospital in the U.K.

October 4, 2009

PET/CT helps speed lung cancer diagnosis

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

FDG-PET/CT can expedite the diagnosis of lung cancer in an outpatient setting, according to research from the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam.

October 1, 2009

OR Technology lands Swiss install

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Image processing and PACS firm OR Technology has installed one of its computed radiography packages at a practice in Switzerland.

October 1, 2009

Ziosoft teams with Global Imaging Online

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced visualization software developer Ziosoft is partnering with French PACS, RIS, and teleradiology firm Global Imaging Online.

October 1, 2009

Report projects 7% global imaging growth

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The global market for medical imaging technology was valued at $15.8 billion in 2008, and will grow at a 7% compound annual growth rate to reach $24.6 billion in revenue in 2015, according to a new market research report.

September 30, 2009

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