Musculoskeletal Radiology: Page 45

CT shows moderate sensitivity for spinal injuries

By Eric Barnes

Whole-body CT has excellent specificity but imperfect sensitivity for detecting spinal injuries in blunt trauma, concluded German researchers presenting at the 2012 American Academy of Spinal Surgeons meeting held earlier this month in San Francisco.

February 14, 2012

EOS launches 30 million euro public offering

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Hot on the heels of Facebook's historic initial public offering (IPO), musculoskeletal imaging firm EOS today announced the launch of its own IPO to trade its shares on the regulated NYSE Euronext Paris exchange.

February 1, 2012

Planmed receives CE Mark for Verity

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Medical imaging vendor Planmed announced it has received the CE Mark for its Verity mobile extremity conebeam CT scanner.

January 24, 2012

EOS progresses toward public stock offering

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The French-headquartered musculoskeletal company EOS Imaging has succeeded in the first stage of its plan to make a public stock offering. Its "document de base" was registered by the Autorité de marches financiers (AMF) on 19 January.

January 22, 2012

Planmed Verity receives CE Mark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Finnish medical imaging vendor Planmed has received the European CE Mark for its Planmed Verity mobile extremity scanner for orthopedic imaging.

January 12, 2012

MRI of limited use in C-spine imaging of whiplash patients

By Wayne Forrest

Swiss researchers have concluded that 1.5-tesla MRI provides "only limited evidence" of specific changes to the cervical spine and surrounding tissues in patients with acute symptomatic whiplash injury, according to a study published online December 20 in Radiology.

January 11, 2012

Carestream gets DR sale from Euro football champs

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Champions League and La Liga holders FC Barcelona have purchased Carestream Health's DRX-Evolution to image their star-studded squad of players.

January 10, 2012

3D matches 2D MRI for knee osteoarthritis, but in less time

By Wayne Forrest

Three-dimensional fast spin-echo MRI can achieve "moderate to almost perfect agreement and high accuracy" compared with routine 2D fast spin-echo MRI for evaluating knee osteoarthritis, but in 30% less time, according to a study presented at the recent RSNA 2011 meeting in Chicago.

December 26, 2011

Imaging illuminates athleticism of Canarian wrestlers

By Robin Marshall

Canarian wrestling may be a fairly specialized and small-scale sport, but the physical prowess of its athletes has come under intense scrutiny from a group of Spanish researchers. Their findings were presented at the recent Euroecho and Other Imaging Modalities conference in Budapest.

December 20, 2011

MRI rules supreme in postoperative knee, but challenges remain

By Philip Ward

CHICAGO - Advances in procedures such as knee replacement, ligamentous reconstruction, and articular cartilage and meniscus repair have led to rapid growth in open and arthroscopic knee surgery. This has heightened demand for postoperative MRI, yet the topic is barely covered in the literature, according to Swiss researchers.

November 28, 2011

Whole-body MRI better than spinal MRI in myeloma patients

By Rebekah Moan

CHICAGO - Whole-body MRI edged out spinal MRI in terms of prognostic value for multiple myeloma patients after stem cell transplantation, according to new German research presented on Monday at the RSNA congress.

November 28, 2011

3D digital x-ray holds up against CT for lower extremities

By Rebekah Moan

Three-dimensional digital x-ray performs just as well as 3D CT when it comes to measuring the leg-length discrepancies of children and adolescents, according to study published online in European Radiology. Two-dimensional measurements, however, didn't fare as well.

November 14, 2011

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