Advanced Visualization: Page 120

Giant virtual reality chamber boosts 3D echo accuracy

By Eric Barnes

Have you ever diagnosed a three-foot-tall 3D heart? Talk about cardiomegaly. Researchers from the Netherlands who survived the experience found they could diagnose valve defects that went unnoticed in a standard 2D exam. At the 2007 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting in Berlin, Anton Koning, Ph.D., from Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam discussed how 3D visualizes complex pathology of the heart and how image display can be improved with different kinds of VR (virtual reality) systems.

August 1, 2007

Medicsight, Barco sign global pact

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Computer-aided detection (CAD) firm Medicsight of London has signed a global distribution contract with image display and advanced visualization software developer Barco of Kortrijk, Belgium.

July 22, 2007

Fecal test, sigmoidoscopy effective for colorectal cancer screening

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 12 - Both fecal occult blood testing and flexible sigmoidoscopy represent feasible and acceptable approaches to colorectal cancer screening in normal-risk men and women, Italian researchers conclude. The six-center study included more than 18,000 randomly selected patients between 55 and 64 years old who hadn't been screened for colorectal cancer in the past two years.

July 11, 2007

Ziehm's IGS system to enter the U.K.

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Xograph Healthcare of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, U.K., will supply Ziehm Imaging's Cappa IS digital mobile C-arm with fully integrated surgical navigation system to the U.K. and Ireland.

June 27, 2007

Viatronix, Medicsight net CE Mark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced visualization firm Viatronix and computer-aided detection (CAD) partner Medicsight of London have jointly released their integrated virtual colonoscopy CAD offering in Europe.

June 12, 2007

ContextVision signs OEM contracts

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish image enhancement developer ContextVision has signed three long-term North American OEM agreements for its GOPView image enhancement software.

June 11, 2007

InSightec nabs CE Mark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Focused-ultrasound developer InSightec announced that its ExAblate 2000 system has received the European CE Mark certification for pain palliation of bone metastases.

June 6, 2007

Two-segment CTA reconstruction aids images, not accuracy

By Eric Barnes

For patients with faster heart rates, the use of two-segment reconstruction improves image quality at 64-slice coronary CT angiography (CTA), according to a study from Germany. Among all patients, however, accuracy was not improved using two-segment when compared to single-segment reconstruction.

May 20, 2007

CEI partners with University of Freiburg

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Computational Engineering International (CEI) of Apex, NC, and the University of Freiburg Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Physics in Germany have signed a deal to partner to develop new visualization techniques for radiology.

May 16, 2007

Prognosis poor with high IL-6 before colorectal cancer surgery

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 16 - Production of high levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) by mononuclear blood cells in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation in vitro is associated with shorter survival in patients about to undergo primary surgery for colorectal cancer, Swedish investigators have shown.

May 15, 2007

Five years of daily aspirin lowers risk of colorectal cancer many years later

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 11 - At a dose of 300 mg daily for at least five years, treatment with aspirin markedly reduces the incidence of colorectal cancer a decade later, according to long-term follow-up of randomized trials and observational studies.

May 10, 2007

Hansen ships Sensei catheter in Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Robotic technology developer Hansen Medical of Mountain View, CA, has begun shipments in Europe of its Sensei robotic catheter system.

May 2, 2007

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