AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writersClinical NewsECR 2012 attendance defies economic downturnAttendance at last week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) held its own by exceeding 20,000 delegates, the European Society of Radiology has reported.March 12, 2012Organized Radiology IssuesHealth 2.0 Europe seeks speakers for 2012 conferenceThe organizers of the annual Health 2.0 Europe conference, which is scheduled to be held in Berlin on 6-7 November, have issued an international call for lecture presentation proposals.March 12, 2012Musculoskeletal RadiologyPlanmeca to support world hockey eventPlanmeca Group will provide a Planmed Verity conebeam CT extremity scanner from its Planmed subsidiary, along with a Planmeca Compact i dental care unit, for the upcoming Ice Hockey World Championships in Helsinki.March 11, 2012Product NewsSiemens launches Magnetom Combi line at ECRSiemens Healthcare used last week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) to launch a new line of MRI patient tables, called Magnetom Combi Suite, designed to support a broader range of interventional radiology procedures.March 11, 2012Industry NewsAgfa extends U.K. contract in WalesAgfa HealthCare has signed a four-year contract extension with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board that includes an upgrade of its PACS and a complete refresh of all equipment.March 11, 2012Industry NewsPhilips announces 1st PET/MR in Nordic regionPhilips Healthcare is announcing the official opening of the Turku PET Centre at Turku University Hospital in Finland, where the first whole-body PET/MR scanner in the Nordic region is now in operation.March 8, 2012Radiology EducationEckert & Ziegler offers travel grants to EANMFive scientists and doctoral students with innovative scientific research to present at the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) annual meeting will each a receive travel grant to do so, compliments of isotope component technology firm Eckert & Ziegler.March 7, 2012Clinical NewsU.K. issues large RIS/PACS procurement requestThe U.K. National Health Service (NHS) Supply Chain has published a procurement request valued at 171 to 363 million pounds (203.8 to 432.6 million euros) for RIS, PACS, computed radiography systems, and related professional services.March 7, 2012Industry NewsBayer merges Medrad with contrast divisionGerman pharmaceutical firm Bayer HealthCare is restructuring its contrast media business in a move that will include integrating its Medrad contrast injector subsidiary with its contrast pharmaceutical business to form a new unit.March 7, 2012Industry NewsRaySearch wins Heidelberg orderRadiation therapy firm RaySearch Laboratories has received an order for its RayStation treatment planning system from the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.March 6, 2012Previous PagePage 752 of 935Next PageTop StoriesWomens ImagingDutch authors cast light on uterine fibroidsResearchers have shared their clinical experiences of how ultrasound and MRI can assess blood flow and vasculature in uterine fibroids.CTDL algorithm estimates lung nodule cancer risk, reduces false positivesMolecular ImagingNeuroinflammation persists for 2 years in long COVIDMRIChatGPT gathers momentum in MR imagingCTLow-dose CT ties emphysema to mortality in previous smokers
