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High-dose brachytherapy shortens cancer treatment
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Perioperative high-dose-rate brachytherapy, when combined with intermediate-dose external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT), can be effective as an alternative to full-dose EBRT in patients with unirradiated squamous cell cancer of the oral cavity and oropharynx.
March 29, 2009
German conference yields data compression recommendations
By Erik L. Ridley
Germany is the latest country to benefit from clinical recommendations on the use of lossy compression in radiology, with a recent consensus conference adding its own findings to newly issued research in Canada and the U.K.
March 29, 2009
Carestream nets Scottish DR orders
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Carestream Health has received orders for 11 digital radiography (DR) systems in Scotland.
March 29, 2009
Telemis taps new French subsidiary head
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
PACS vendor Telemis has named Philippe Mabille as operation manager for its French subsidiary, Telemis-Electrom.
March 26, 2009
Automated CT volumetry of lymph nodes gauges treatment response
By Eric Barnes
Cancer patients who respond to neoadjuvant therapy have a better prognosis than nonresponders, of course, but with the exception of FDG-PET, reductions in the size of tumors treated with chemotherapy or radiation have been difficult to gauge using imaging modalities that are capable of delineating the anatomy.
March 26, 2009
New MRI techniques could mean faster scans
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Mar 27 - Two new techniques using different approaches to see molecular changes inside people's bodies could lead to faster, more detailed imaging scans that better detect health problems, researchers said on Thursday.
March 26, 2009
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VC/AAA screening combo cost-effective in older adults
By Eric Barnes
A new analytic model has found that virtual colonoscopy is a highly cost-effective colon cancer screening method for older adults in the Medicare population, especially when combined with screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), a test performed using the same CT dataset at little additional cost.
March 25, 2009
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German clinics order medavis RIS
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
PACS vendor Medavis will install its RIS product at six healthcare clinics owned by Asklepios of Hamburg.
March 24, 2009
IBA sells Cyclone 30 in Germany
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) sold a new version of its Cyclone 30 cyclotron to the Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine, a department of the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany.
March 24, 2009
CAD performance changes with breast density
By Brian Casey
Changes in breast density can affect the performance of computer-aided detection (CAD) software used to analyze mammography images, according to results of a study from Spain presented at the European Congress of Radiology.
March 24, 2009
Cancer cure rates on the rise in Europe: study
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Mar 24 - More Europeans are beating cancer, perhaps due to more widespread screening and earlier diagnosis, according to a study published on Tuesday.
March 23, 2009
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Whole-body CT improves survival in patients with multiple major injuries
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Mar 24 - Surgeons and radiologists in Germany report that early use of whole-body CT in patients with major blunt trauma significantly increases their odds of survival.
March 23, 2009
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