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Philips, Russian institutes team for imaging research
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Royal Philips Electronics, the parent corporation of Philips Healthcare, said it is joining forces in research and development of medical imaging technologies with three Russian research institutes.
June 21, 2012
U.K. government report backs open access science publishing
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters) - The shift toward open access to publicly funded scientific research should be supported with an extra 50 million to 60 million pounds a year in public money, according to a U.K. government-commissioned report.
June 21, 2012
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ISCT: CT angiography predicts need for coronary intervention
By Rebekah Moan
SAN FRANCISCO - Dual-source coronary CT angiography showed high diagnostic accuracy for predicting the need for coronary intervention in what its investigators are calling the largest multicenter trial to date, according to results presented on Wednesday at the International Society for Computed Tomography (ISCT) meeting.
June 20, 2012
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What HIMSS Analytics Europe's accomplished in 2 years
By Cynthia E. Keen
Over the past decade or so, there's been a lot of discussion among healthcare providers throughout the world about the adoption of information technology. But how to measure and assess what's been done, and put this in a format that allows for comparison?
June 20, 2012
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GE promotes DaTscan study results
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare is touting the results of a randomized, controlled study that found its contrast agent DaTscan to be useful in SPECT imaging of adult patients with clinically uncertain Parkinsonian syndromes.
June 20, 2012
Elekta eyes Brazilian market with Radon purchase
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta has purchased Brazilian linear accelerator service company Radon.
June 20, 2012
Postmortem CT shows cause of death after acute chest pain
By Eric Barnes
Postmortem CT angiography combined with image-guided biopsy can nearly always determine the cause of death in patients who succumb after acute chest pain, a question that has often gone unanswered, according to a Swiss study published in Radiology.
June 20, 2012
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Wait in line Usain Bolt; MRI's forgotten pioneer; breast tomo advances
By Philip Ward
June 19, 2012
Diffusion-weighted MRI provides boost for breast lesion detection
By Wayne Forrest
Diffusion-weighted MRI and apparent diffusion coefficient measurements help increase the specificity of breast MRI to more than 90% and provide faster imaging times in a noninvasive, nonionizing radiation way, concludes a new meta-analysis from France.
June 19, 2012
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Radimetrics opens new Scottish office
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiation dose-monitoring firm Radimetrics has opened an office in East Kilbride, U.K.
June 19, 2012
Olympics countdown: Staff training gets under way at polyclinic
By Philip Ward
The elite squad of more than 100 volunteers charged with the task of imaging the 2012 Olympics met for the first time last week. Editor-in-Chief Philip Ward joined them in London for an exclusive tour of the new polyclinic facility.
June 19, 2012
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Study doubts value of liver cancer screening
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening people with alcoholic liver damage for signs of cancer may not be worth the expense or other downsides, Danish researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
June 18, 2012
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