Clinical News: Page 990

CARS: Radiology gets 'intelligent' dedicated search tool

By Frances Rylands-Monk

RadMiner, a tool that the developers hope will revolutionize radiological Web searches, looks set to improve computer-based research after a successful pilot project in Germany, attendees learned during the teleradiology and e-learning session at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) congress in Pisa, Italy.

July 2, 2012

GlobalData predicts worldwide radiotherapy device growth

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The radiation therapy devices market is growing as the global number of cancer patients increases, according to a newly published report by market research group GlobalData.

July 2, 2012

USARad.com subsidiaries win Middle East deal

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Teleradiology services provider USARad.com's XMRI.com and WorldRad.com subsidiaries have inked a partnership with Egyptian teleradiology firm Telemed Providers.

July 2, 2012

Dutch radiology mourns icon Dr. Carl B.A.J. Puylaert (1923-2012)

By Dr. Kees Vellenga and Dr. Paul Algra

Carl B.A.J. Puylaert was a radiologist in Tilburg, the Netherlands for 17 years before he started his career as professor of radiology in the University Hospital of Utrecht for the next 15 years. He educated 23 fellows in radiology in Tilburg and 75 in Utrecht, and five of his pupils later became professors of radiology themselves.

July 2, 2012

EVINCI: Noninvasive heart imaging cuts invasive procedures 75%

By Eric Barnes

As many as three-fourths of patients with chest pain could avoid invasive and costly procedures like invasive coronary angiography by undergoing noninvasive imaging tests first, according to investigators at the Evaluation of Integrated Cardiac Imaging (EVINCI) Consortium last week.

July 2, 2012

Bionic Vet shows what humans can learn from small animal imaging

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Taking the audience on a whirlwind tour around a Noah's Ark of cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, reindeer, and snakes, a veterinary surgeon known to his thousands of television fans as the "Bionic Vet," gave a plenary lecture to remember at last week's U.K. Radiological Conference.

July 1, 2012

AuntMinnieEurope.com Digital X-Ray Insider

By Philip Ward

July 1, 2012

Audits can help cut lumbar spine x-ray requests

By Philip Ward

Radiologists from Leeds, U.K., are using audits to reduce the alarming number of lumbar spine radiographs that may be unnecessary, thereby reducing radiation exposure to patients and freeing up x-ray machines and radiographers for more urgent examinations.

July 1, 2012

Researchers find novel way to image women with breast implants

By Rebekah Moan

Imaging women with silicone breast implants with diffusion-weighted MR imaging is a challenge, but a possible solution is to combine short-tau inversion recovery and slice-select gradient reversal to eliminate or reduce silicone signal, according to a study published online in European Radiology on 16 June.

July 1, 2012

Breast cancer risk after supradiaphragmatic radiation persists past 40 years

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The increased risk of breast cancer in women who received above-the-diaphragm radiotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma persists for at least 40 years, a U.K. cohort study shows.

June 29, 2012

Report predicts $6B rad therapy market by 2016

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A new report by business research firm MarketsandMarkets predicts that the global radiotherapy device market will reach a value of $5.8 billion by 2016.

June 28, 2012

IBA agrees to first proton therapy installation in Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Molecular imaging manufacturer IBA Molecular has signed an agreement to install its first Proteus ONE unit in Europe, at Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, in Nice, France.

June 28, 2012

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