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Hologic to sell Micrima breast imaging system
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Women's imaging vendor Hologic has signed an agreement to sell the Maria breast imaging system from Micrima in Europe.
May 23, 2019
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AIPES changes name to Nuclear Medicine Europe
By Leo Cendrowicz
The Association of Imaging Producers & Equipment Suppliers (AIPES) has changed its name to Nuclear Medicine Europe (NM-EU). The new name reflects the group's aims to represent industry's interests more effectively and improve its brand identity. The first president of NM-EU is Antonis Kalemis, PhD.
May 22, 2019
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Kuhl brings the curtain down in Montreal
By Erik L. Ridley
Better risk assessment methods and more appropriate utilization of imaging modalities such as breast MRI open the door for personalized cancer screening strategies, Prof. Christiane Kuhl told delegates in the closing Mansfield Lecture at last week's International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine annual meeting in Montreal.
May 21, 2019
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U.K. Clinical Imaging Board issues posters for patients
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The Clinical Imaging Board in the U.K. has introduced a patient information poster on the risks and benefits of nuclear medicine procedures.
May 20, 2019
Intracoronary imaging can guide heart attack treatment
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Intracoronary imaging -- such as intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography -- can yield more precise diagnoses of heart attacks and be used to individualize patient treatment, according to an expert consensus paper published on 21 May in the European Heart Journal and presented this week at the EuroPCR meeting in Paris.
May 20, 2019
PET/CT ties ischemia risk to artery inflammation
By Wayne Forrest
PET/CT images are offering evidence of a link between vascular patterns at the time of diagnosis for giant cell arteritis and a patient's risk of an ischemic event, Spanish researchers explained in a study published online on 12 May in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
May 19, 2019
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Postmortem pediatric imaging proves value
By Philip Ward
What are the key indications, advantages, and limitations of postmortem pediatric imaging? Which modality works best? And what is the role of 3D printing? Dr. Owen Arthurs from London's Great Ormond Street Hospital provides some answers.
May 19, 2019
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Novel MRI technique diagnoses, monitors kidney fibrosis
By Gregor Skeldon
German researchers have developed a method to image, diagnose, and stage kidney fibrosis. By using an MRI contrast agent specific to elastin, they demonstrated the use of their technique for longitudinal diagnosis and monitoring of patients.
May 16, 2019
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Shine signs Czech license agreement
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Medical isotope firm Shine Medical Technologies has signed an intellectual property license agreement with the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague).
May 15, 2019
DBT alone is safe for population-based screening
By Kate Madden Yee
Researchers from Norway have found that breast cancer screening with digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) plus synthesized 2D mammography performs comparably to digital mammography and can safely be used alone in population-based screening programs. Their study of nearly 29,000 women was published on 8 May in Lancet Oncology.
May 14, 2019
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AI predicts myocardial infarction, death in patients at risk of CAD
By Erik L. Ridley
By analyzing clinical and hybrid imaging data, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm can predict which patients will go on to experience myocardial infarction or death during long-term follow-up, according to research from Finland presented at this week's International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT in Lisbon.
May 12, 2019
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How to train the medical physicists of the future
By Tami Freeman, PhD
At the recent European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology meeting in Milan, a debate examined the skills that medical physicists will require in 10 years' time and asked how training for medical physicists specializing in radiation oncology should develop over the next decade. Five expert speakers presented their thoughts -- and then let the audience decide.
May 9, 2019
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