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GE signs Qatar IT deal
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with an IT services provider in Qatar covering the systems integration of GE Centricity healthcare IT software, including its Centricity Enterprise package.
April 5, 2009
Virtual colonoscopy CAD finds most cancers
By Eric Barnes
A computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm designed to find polypoid lesions of the colon also does fairly well at finding frank cancers, researchers from the U.K. concluded. But sensitivity varies depending on the system settings and the quality of the prep.
April 2, 2009
British rads blast U.K. IT initiative
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The U.K.'s rollout of a nationwide healthcare IT network has resulted in isolated local PACS networks that are unable to efficiently share and transfer electronic diagnostic imaging files and related reports.
April 2, 2009
ContextVision unveils 3D US enhancement tool
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish image enhancement developer ContextVision will introduce its GOPiCE US ultrasound volumetric filtering software at this week's American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine meeting.
April 1, 2009
Agfa wins German Impax contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has inked a contract with the University Hospital of Bonn for its Impax PACS system.
April 1, 2009
German conference yields data compression recommendations
By Erik L. Ridley
Germany is the latest country to benefit from clinical recommendations on the use of lossy compression in radiology, with a recent consensus conference adding its own findings to newly issued research in Canada and the U.K.
March 29, 2009
Telemis taps new French subsidiary head
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
PACS vendor Telemis has named Philippe Mabille as operation manager for its French subsidiary, Telemis-Electrom.
March 26, 2009
Automated CT volumetry of lymph nodes gauges treatment response
By Eric Barnes
Cancer patients who respond to neoadjuvant therapy have a better prognosis than nonresponders, of course, but with the exception of FDG-PET, reductions in the size of tumors treated with chemotherapy or radiation have been difficult to gauge using imaging modalities that are capable of delineating the anatomy.
March 26, 2009
VC/AAA screening combo cost-effective in older adults
By Eric Barnes
A new analytic model has found that virtual colonoscopy is a highly cost-effective colon cancer screening method for older adults in the Medicare population, especially when combined with screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), a test performed using the same CT dataset at little additional cost.
March 25, 2009
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German clinics order medavis RIS
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
PACS vendor Medavis will install its RIS product at six healthcare clinics owned by Asklepios of Hamburg.
March 24, 2009
CAD performance changes with breast density
By Brian Casey
Changes in breast density can affect the performance of computer-aided detection (CAD) software used to analyze mammography images, according to results of a study from Spain presented at the European Congress of Radiology.
March 24, 2009
Aycan builds customer stable
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiology informatics firm Aycan Medical Systems has signed two new customers.
March 23, 2009
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