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New breast imaging applications show diagnostic promise

By Kate Madden Yee

Three up-and-coming breast imaging applications could help clinicians make diagnoses with greater accuracy -- good news not only for patient care, but also for a breast imaging center's bottom line.

January 19, 2009

Three Palm nets CE Mark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Breast imaging software developer Three Palm Software has received the CE Mark for its WorkstationOne and CadOne mammography software products.

January 19, 2009

Isodose Control rolls out Flexiplan 2.5

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Isodose Control of Ede, Netherlands, has released its new Flexiplan 2.5 brachytherapy planning system.

January 18, 2009

Ultrasound screens for pancreatic cancer in high-risk populations

By Eric Barnes

SAN FRANCISCO - Ultrasound detected small pancreatic cancers even CT and MRI couldn't visualize in a novel Dutch screening program aimed at high-risk patients with a family history of the disease. The researchers hope to transform their pilot study into a multicenter trial aimed at finding pancreatic cancer in high-risk patients while it's still resectable.

January 18, 2009

Carestream nets 2,000th CR mammo install

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Carestream Health has installed its 2,000th high-resolution computed radiography (CR) system for mammography at a German hospital.

January 15, 2009

OR Technology adds Medici install

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

German image processing and PACS provider OR Technology has installed its retrofit Medici DR 1717-Duo system at Kreiskrankenhaus Demmin in Demmin, Germany.

January 15, 2009

MR colonography separates benign from malignant colonic strictures

By Eric Barnes

Dynamic contrast-enhanced MR colonography can readily distinguish benign from malignant strictures of the colon, according to Danish researchers. They said the technique could solve a diagnostic dilemma in patients with suspected colorectal cancer lesions that prevent them from undergoing conventional colonoscopy before surgery.

January 15, 2009

Genistein safely improves bone formation in osteopenic, postmenopausal women

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jan 15 - Genistein aglycone improves bone formation without adversely affecting the breast in postmenopausal women with osteopenia, according to a report in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

January 14, 2009

Flow reserve testing may improve PCI outcomes

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jan 15 - Adding fractional flow reserve measurements to angiography may improve survival and other outcomes for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents, new research indicates.

January 14, 2009

Bayer partners with Hamamatsu

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Bayer Schering Pharma and Hamamatsu Photonics have signed a licensing agreement to share their products and expertise in molecular imaging for cancer.

January 11, 2009

Biospace Med nets EOS sale

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

French digital radiography firm Biospace Med has received an order from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

January 11, 2009

MRI beats PET for myocardial evaluation in patients with impaired LV function

By Eric Barnes

While MRI is known to detect more myocardial scarring than PET in patients with occlusive coronary artery disease, a new study suggests that contrast-enhanced MRI can make a critical difference in treatment planning for revascularization candidates with severely impaired left ventricular (LV) function.

January 8, 2009

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