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Report: European MRI market topped $806 million in 2006
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The European market for MRI technology produced sales of $806.5 million in 2006, according to a new report by market research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.
June 13, 2007
Lower tube voltage leads to reduced dose in pediatric CT
By Brian Casey
SAN FRANCISCO - Radiation dose can be reduced in pediatric CT imaging without compromising image quality by using lower tube voltages, according to CT pioneer Willi Kalender, Ph.D. Dose could potentially be reduced even further if manufacturers tweaked their systems to enable them to scan at lower energies than those commonly used now, he said at yesterday's sessions of Stanford University's International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT.
June 13, 2007
Viatronix, Medicsight net CE Mark
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Advanced visualization firm Viatronix and computer-aided detection (CAD) partner Medicsight of London have jointly released their integrated virtual colonoscopy CAD offering in Europe.
June 12, 2007
Trixell expands production capacity
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
French x-ray component supplier Thales Electron Devices has expanded the production capacity of its Trixell digital radiography (DR) division at the unit's facility in Moirans.
June 12, 2007
ContextVision signs OEM contracts
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish image enhancement developer ContextVision has signed three long-term North American OEM agreements for its GOPView image enhancement software.
June 11, 2007
iCAD signs pact with Agfa
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer iCAD has signed a development and distribution agreement with Mortsel, Belgium-based Agfa HealthCare to provide its SecondLook Digital CAD product for Agfa's full-field digital mammography systems.
June 11, 2007
GE inks deal with International Aid
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has signed an agreement with global humanitarian agency International Aid covering the distribution of medical equipment to communities in developing countries.
June 11, 2007
Irish BreastCheck program orders FFDM units
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The Irish National Cancer Screening Service's BreastCheck program is ordering 29 full-field digital mammography (FFDM) units as part of its plan to improve access to mammography services in the country.
June 10, 2007
Scientists warn new EU rules threaten MRI scans
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Jun 11 - New European Union safety rules, designed to safeguard workers, would jeopardize the use of MRI scanners in hospitals, leading scientists said on Monday. "The values described in the directive would be exceeded in every use of MRI," Gabriel Krestin, professor and chairman of the Department of Radiology at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, said in a statement.
June 10, 2007
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InSightec nabs CE Mark
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Focused-ultrasound developer InSightec announced that its ExAblate 2000 system has received the European CE Mark certification for pain palliation of bone metastases.
June 6, 2007
NHS manages to avoid another budget deficit
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Jun 7 - The National Health Service (NHS) underspent its budget by 510 million pounds last year, fulfilling a government pledge to avoid a third year in the red but provoking a row over the level of cuts implemented. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, who unveiled data for the 2006/07 financial year in England on Wednesday, had said she would quit if the NHS fell into deficit again.
June 6, 2007
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GE to supply FFDM to Irish breast cancer screening program
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., said it has signed an agreement with the Irish National Cancer Screening Service to provide 13 of 29 digital mammography units to be installed across Ireland as part of that country's national breast cancer screening program, BreastCheck.
June 5, 2007
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