Clinical News: Page 986

IBA opens rad therapy training center in Germany

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has established an international training center in Nuremberg, Germany to provide dosimetry training to healthcare professionals involved in the planning and delivery of radiation therapy.

July 22, 2012

Radiology's graveyard: Extinct exams you may not know about

By Dr. Adrian Thomas

Modern imaging has replaced many of the older radiological techniques. These older examinations often involved considerable technical skills from both radiologists and radiographers, and they spent many years perfecting their skills.

July 22, 2012

Global study validates EORTC bone metastases

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A quality of life questionnaire for cancer patients with bone metastases developed by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) has been validated by an international study conducted by cancer treatment centers in five continents.

July 19, 2012

Intraop adds Berlin system to installed base

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Intraoperative radiation therapy firm Intraop Medical has installed the 10th of its next-generation Mobetron systems at Helios-Kliniken in Berlin.

July 19, 2012

3D cardiac MRI at 3T accurately assesses myocardial perfusion

By Eric Barnes

3D whole-heart myocardial perfusion cardiac MRI at 3 tesla accurately detects functionally significant coronary artery disease with results that are comparable to more invasive techniques, according to study published online on 18 July in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

July 19, 2012

CT illuminates abdominal and thoracic gunshot injuries

By Philip Ward

A basic knowledge of ballistics is essential to enable detection and interpretation of the lesions resulting from gunshot wounds in the abdomen and thorax, and contrast-enhanced CT is the best examination to perform in stable patients, French researchers have found.

July 18, 2012

Lantheus names new VP

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Lantheus Medical Imaging has named Michael Heslop as vice president, international.

July 17, 2012

Circle CVI signs Univ. of Oxford

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Cardiac analysis software developer Circle Cardiovascular Imaging (Circle CVI) has inked an agreement with the University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research.

July 17, 2012

CompuGroup Medical merges subsidiaries in Middle East

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Healthcare IT firm CompuGroup Medical of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, announced that it has completed the merger of two of its subsidiaries, as part of a company restructuring in the Middle East.

July 17, 2012

Elekta supports Spanish pediatric cancer research

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish radiation oncology firm Elekta has given a 32,000 euro grant to Madrid Hospital Foundation's Pediatric Oncology program at the Madrid Montepríncipe Hospital's Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Unit.

July 17, 2012

Bone suppression tool helps find pneumonia in chest x-rays

By Erik L. Ridley

Thanks to its ability to improve the conspicuity of focal lung disease, bone suppression image processing can significantly improve radiologists' accuracy in identifying focal pneumonia on chest radiographs, according to new research published online on 5 July by European Radiology.

July 17, 2012

Analysis of Swedish county data is off the mark

By Dr. László Tabár

In this week's study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, a research team claimed to find that mammography screening had no impact on mortality from breast cancer, based on their interpretation of data from Swedish counties. However, the group made a number of fatal mistakes in their analysis, according to Dr. László Tabár.

July 16, 2012

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