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Medima taps South African distributor
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Dutch healthcare IT developer Medima Solutions has inked a distribution agreement with South African firm Xeikona Medical Solutions.
June 6, 2006
GE launches Swedish IT project
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has implemented its Centricity infrastructure for RIS, PACS, and image archiving in the Västra Götaland region of Sweden.
May 30, 2006
Cedara to distribute, integrate medavis RIS
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Canadian medical imaging and informatics software developer Cedara Software said it has been selected to distribute a RIS application from Karlsruhe, Germany-based medavis to healthcare facilities in the U.K., Ireland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Lebanon.
May 24, 2006
Sectra's medical sales grow, profit dips
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish technology firm Sectra reported growth in revenues in its medical division in the company's recently completed fiscal year (end-April), although operating profit dipped.
May 22, 2006
Cedara signs GIP CPAGE
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Canadian medical imaging software developer Cedara Software said it has been named the exclusive electronic patient record (EPR) supplier of French hospital association GIP CPAGE.
May 16, 2006
Sectra adds Netherlands office
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The Secure Communications division of Swedish technology firm Sectra has opened an office in the Netherlands to better serve the Dutch market, the company said.
May 15, 2006
Swedes want to perform VC, but many lack equipment, training
By Eric Barnes
Less than a quarter of Sweden's radiology departments perform virtual colonoscopy, but not for lack of interest in the procedure, a new study finds. Rather, the lack of multidetector CT scanners and training opportunities were the top reasons for not performing VC.
May 7, 2006
VC CAD helps junior readers catch up
By Eric Barnes
Virtual colonoscopy computer-aided detection (CAD) can improve sensitivity for polyp detection, especially for the inexperienced reader, according to a study from Paris.
May 3, 2006
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No long-term rise in colon cancer for ulcerative colitis patients
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 1 - The incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) remains constant in ulcerative colitis (UC) patients up to 40 years of disease duration, a new study from the U.K. shows.
April 30, 2006
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Colon CAD: VC's extra eyes face new challenges
By Eric Barnes
Prototype colon CAD systems are proliferating, and thanks to years of painstaking development work they're doing a pretty good job, outperforming all but the best radiologists in the detection of colonic lesions. VC CAD expert Dr. Hiro Yoshida from Harvard Medical School in Boston discusses the major innovations that have produced today's complex CAD systems, and the moving target CAD developers face in keeping up with new performance standards.
August 4, 2005
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Model saves time, radiation by simulating anatomic changes during radiotherapy
By Eric Barnes
Organs and tumors can twist, turn, and deform substantially during radiotherapy, creating a moving target for treatment planners seeking to avoid irradiating normal tissue. One solution, a full CT scan before each treatment, is both time- and radiation-intensive. But what if doctors could simply "update" the pretreatment scan with a few newly acquired planar projection images? Researchers from Virginia built and tested a model to do just that.
July 24, 2005
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Digital mammo with CAD requires sharp eye for false negatives
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
In the past few years, traditional film-screen and digital mammography has benefited by the application of computer-aided detection (CAD) software. Although studies have shown that CAD use can increase the detection of early-stage malignancies, radiologist experience is needed to reduce the number of false negatives to a minimum, according to researchers from Italy.
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