Clinical News: Page 1218

Sectra awarded Swedish IT contract

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS vendor and digital mammography developer Sectra of Linköping has received an order to install its IT infrastructure for information exchange among hospitals for the Swedish county council Region Skåne.

June 1, 2008

MRI outperforms MDCT in endoleak detection

By Wayne Forrest

Multidetector-row CT may soon find itself in competition with MRI for the imaging of endoleaks after endovascular repair (EVAR) of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Researchers found that MRI combined with a high relaxivity contrast agent had "significantly high sensitivity" for endoleak detection after EVAR when compared with MDCT.

May 29, 2008

PLC Systems to begin CIN clinical trial

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

PLC Systems of Franklin, MA, has received approval from the Centro Cardiologico Monzino of Milan, Italy, for a randomized clinical trial to evaluate the use of its RenalGuard product.

May 29, 2008

IBA finalizes acquisition of CIS bio

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Belgian radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) of Louvain-la-Neuve has moved to finalize its purchase of CIS bio International.

May 29, 2008

U.K. firm developing intraoperative breast MR scanner

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

U.K. MRI technology developer Specialty Magnetics is working on an intraoperative breast MRI scanner.

May 28, 2008

New MRI technique could catch cancer early: study

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), May 29 - A new imaging technique that relies on naturally occurring baking soda in the body could help pinpoint cancer earlier and quickly gauge if drugs to kill tumors are working, British researchers said.

May 28, 2008

3D aortic MRI helps detect high-risk plaque

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 29 - Three-dimensional MRI using a 3-tesla system appears to be reliable and more accurate than transesophageal echocardiography for revealing aortic high-risk plaques in acute stroke patients, German researchers report in the May issue of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry.

May 28, 2008

Speech recognition shrinks report turnaround time

By Wayne Forrest

Speech recognition technology showed its worth in a study from Helsinki University Central Hospital in Finland, where report turnaround time was reduced by more than 80%. Study results were presented at the 2008 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting in Seattle.

May 28, 2008

GE launches IT training initiative

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare has launched a global certification program based on its Centricity Enterprise.

May 22, 2008

Grundig expands product capabilities

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

German dictation technology provider Grundig Business Systems digital products now support the Thin Clients from IGEL Technology and Siemens Healthcare at Linux 2.4 with Citrix infrastructures for application provision.

May 22, 2008

Ultrasound contrast boosts prostate biopsy yield

By Erik L. Ridley

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - Prostate biopsy guided by contrast-enhanced color Doppler ultrasound is superior to systematic biopsy in a screening setting, according to research presented at the Leading Edge in Diagnostic Ultrasound conference this week.

May 21, 2008

Siemens takes U.K. order for Artis zee

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare of Erlangen, Germany, has received an order from Kent and Canterbury Hospital in the U.K. for a ceiling-mounted Artis zee x-ray angiography system.

May 20, 2008

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