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Radiation therapy comparable to surgery in elderly patients

By Cynthia E. Keen

Stereotactic radiation therapy produces the same survival outcomes for elderly patients diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer as surgery, according to research presented at the 2010 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology.

December 16, 2010

Aycan, Definiens team up

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiology informatics firm Aycan Medical Systems has formed a partnership with imaging software developer Definiens.

December 6, 2010

Fully automated gating: A new era for PET?

A fully automated algorithm that can extract a respiratory signal from raw PET data has the potential to make gating a more convenient -- and, therefore, more widely adopted -- utility in clinical PET, according to an article published in Medical Physics.

November 24, 2010

Less invasive lung cancer staging strategy has multiple benefits: study

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Initiating mediastinal nodal staging of suspected lung cancer with endosonography, followed by surgical staging (mediastinoscopy) if needed, improves the detection of metastases and reduces the rate of unnecessary thoracotomies, compared with surgical staging alone.

November 23, 2010

Siemens debuts HD-Chest for PET/CT

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has introduced HD-Chest, a new technology designed to reduce blur created by respiration during PET/CT studies.

October 7, 2010

New CAD for COPD parses disease type, severity

By Eric Barnes

Dutch researchers are taking computer-aided detection (CAD) of the lungs beyond suspicious lung nodules and into the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), aiming to identify the patients most likely to benefit from treatment.

September 30, 2010

Routine CT scans offer disease-detection bonus

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Surprise findings on a chest CT scan -- unrelated to the original reason for having the 3D imaging performed -- may help identify people at high risk for cardiovascular disease, suggests a new Dutch study.

September 28, 2010

CAD detects signs of emphysema on DR images

By Brian Casey

Most of the recent research on the use of computer-aided detection (CAD) software for analyzing digital radiography (DR) studies of the chest has focused on lung cancer. But Italian researchers this month in European Journal of Radiology report good performance of an emphysema CAD algorithm that they developed at their institution.

September 26, 2010

Bundling of CAD software boosts lung lesion detection at CT

By Eric Barnes

Running CT lung images through multiple computer-aided detection (CAD) applications delivers better results than any single algorithm alone, researchers are finding. This phenomenon is unleashing a minitrend that may be discomforting to CAD developers concerned about the success of their systems.

September 20, 2010

PET/CT detects early efficacy of chemo drug in NSCLC patients

By Wayne Forrest

Dutch researchers have found that FDG-PET/CT can identify early response to preoperative chemotherapy with erlotinib in most patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a study in the September issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

September 16, 2010

FDG-PET before RT can modify planned NSCLC treatment

By Wayne Forrest

FDG-PET scans of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients reviewed before radiation therapy (RT) may lead to significant changes in treatment strategy and radiation therapy planning, according to a study in the August issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

August 10, 2010

Short, split-dose radiation helps palliate advanced NSCLC

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 9 - Short-course split-dose radiotherapy helps relieve the symptoms of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Polish oncologists report.

August 8, 2010

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