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im3D launches DICOM viewer

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Italian computer-aided detection (CAD) software developer im3D of Turin has launched a new DICOM viewer designed to work in conjunction with its CAD workstation.

November 20, 2007

Medavis debuts new DICOM Importer version

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

German PACS vendor medavis has released version 2.0 of its DICOM Importer Pro tool.

November 20, 2007

Sectra, Synthetic MR join forces

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra of Linköping has inked a cooperation agreement with Swedish MR analysis software developer Synthetic MR.

November 20, 2007

Accuray receives Russian order

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiotherapy firm Accuray of Sunnyvale, CA, has signed a contract to install its CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery system at the N. N. Blokhin Cancer Research Center in Moscow.

November 19, 2007

US-based minimally invasive treatments prove feasible for uterine fibroids

By Shalmali Pal

When it comes to the ultrasound-based treatment of uterine fibroids, clinicians should target patients whose benign tumors are not too big or not too small, according to two new studies. Researchers from Italy found that that percutaneous sonography-guided radiofrequency thermal ablation (RFA) was particularly adept at shrinking medium-sized fibroids, while a Japanese team found that MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) surgery was an optimal therapy option for fibroids with specific characteristics on preoperative imaging.

November 19, 2007

Biospace adds to executive lineup

French digital radiography developer Biospace Med has named Joe Sardano as senior vice president for the Americas region and Peter Cardle as European sales vice president.

November 18, 2007

Philips, Elsevier to partner on speech recognition

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Dutch industrial conglomerate Royal Philips Electronics announced that it will collaborate with Elsevier to integrate Philips' speech recognition platform with Elsevier's radiology diagnostic reference system, the Netherlands-based company reported.

November 14, 2007

Electromagnetic anisotropy detects prostate cancer noninvasively

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 15 - The tissue-resonance interaction method (TRIM) for analyzing electromagnetic anisotropy can be used to detect prostate cancer noninvasively, according to a report in the November issue of BJU International.

November 14, 2007

OECD healthcare report shows big quality variation

By Reuters Health

WASHINGTON (Reuters), Nov 14 - Death rates from heart attacks have plummeted for people who get to hospitals, but many countries still have trouble treating and preventing chronic diseases, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development reported on Tuesday. Among the countries struggling to provide quality healthcare is the U.S., which spends far more per capita than any other OECD member but does not always deliver the best care, the OECD said.

November 13, 2007

Eckert & Ziegler launch new gallium generator

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiotherapy and radiopharmaceutical developer Eckert & Ziegler Isotope Products introduced a new gallium-68 generator at last month's European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark.

November 12, 2007

Cordis partners with Volcano in Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European divisions of interventional device firm Cordis of Waterloo, Belgium, and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) developer Volcano have signed a deal to market IVUS technology to European hospitals.

November 11, 2007

Five-modality Munich trial finds high sensitivity for OC, VC

By Eric Barnes

A virtual colonoscopy screening trial performed entirely on 64-detector-row CT found clinically significant polyps nearly as accurately as optical colonoscopy, researchers report. The Munich Colorectal Cancer Prevention Trial incorporated five separate colorectal cancer screening modalities in the same screening cohort. The researchers presented their results at the recent 2007 International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy in Boston.

November 11, 2007

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