Clinical News: Page 945

Pie Medical releases IVUS/OCT analysis software

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Pie Medical Imaging has released CAAS IntraVascular, a software product for the analysis of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) data.

February 4, 2013

Accuray reaches CyberKnife milestone in Germany

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation oncology firm Accuray has revealed its CyberKnife M6 radiotherapy system has been used by the European CyberKnife Center Munich-Grosshadern (ECZM) to treat the first patient in the world with this device.

February 4, 2013

Flat growth likely for interventional cardiology market

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European interventional cardiology market is expected to remain flat through 2017, with a projected value of about 740 million euros ($1 billion U.S.), according to the Toronto-based market research firm Millennium Research Group.

February 4, 2013

Elekta expands radiotherapy business in the U.K.

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation oncology firm Elekta has taken an order for its Agility 160-leaf multileaf collimator from Cancer Partners UK, which currently is building its sixth treatment center in Guildford.

February 4, 2013

Regional teleradiology addresses U.K. radiologist shortage

By Nicola H. Strickland

There are too few radiologists in the U.K., spread unevenly among geographic regions of the country. In this guest column, Dr. Nicola H. Strickland describes how implementing a regional National Health Service teleradiology network could benefit the country's health system, its hospitals, its radiologists, and its patients.

February 4, 2013

French court convicts doctors in radiation overdose case

By Frances Rylands-Monk

Three doctors at a hospital in northeastern France have been convicted of manslaughter and serious injury because of radiation overdoses between 2001 and 2006 that affected 450 prostate cancer patients. The incidents led to the deaths of at least 12 patients and resulted in serious injury to many others.

February 3, 2013

AuntMinnieEurope.com MRI Insider

By Philip Ward

February 3, 2013

Get more familiar with MR imaging of CJD, Italians urge

By Philip Ward

Researchers from Rome have urged all radiologists to boost their knowledge of the MRI findings and characteristics of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), particularly because in some cases MRI can lead to a correct diagnosis even when the clinical information and electroencephalography plus cerebrospinal fluid analysis data are uncertain.

February 3, 2013

Local volunteers fill breast cancer screening gap in Sudan

By Rebekah Moan

Due to limited access to mammography, researchers developed a breast screening program in Sudan that relied on clinical breast exams and self-examination. The inexpensive program used local volunteers and resulted in earlier detection of breast cancer compared with when no screening takes place.

January 31, 2013

LED displays offer comfort without hindering performance

By Erik L. Ridley

Without sacrificing diagnostic performance, monitors that employ light-emitting diode (LED) backlights are more comfortable to use for diagnostic interpretation than displays employing traditional backlighting based on cold cathode fluorescent lamp technology, Korean researchers have found.

January 31, 2013

LED displays offer comfort without hindering performance

By Erik L. Ridley

Without sacrificing diagnostic performance, monitors that employ light-emitting diode (LED) backlights are more comfortable to use for diagnostic interpretation than displays employing traditional backlighting based on cold cathode fluorescent lamp technology, Korean researchers have found.

January 31, 2013

Agfa secures South African supply deal

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with medical product distribution company Kunene Health Care to supply and distribute all of Agfa's products in South Africa.

January 30, 2013

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