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Philips secures mammography manufacturing partner

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare has named Swedish manufacturer Note as its new strategic partner for the MicroDose full-field digital mammography unit.

December 15, 2015

Lung CT screening pilot has good detection rate of early cancers

By Frances Rylands-Monk

Low-dose CT has proved to be pivotal in the early detection of lung cancer in a groundbreaking U.K. lung cancer screening pilot project that aimed to discover if CT was a viable cost-effective option. The findings were published online by BMJ on 8 December.

December 15, 2015

AuntMinnieEurope.com Molecular Imaging Insider

By Wayne Forrest

December 13, 2015

IBA sells last of IBA Molecular

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Proton therapy technology developer Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has signed a definitive agreement for the sale of IBA Molecular, which is the remainder of that business after the North American subsidiary was sold earlier this year.

December 13, 2015

Positron emission mammo shows prowess in cancer

By Wayne Forrest

Positron emission mammography (PEM) can detect almost all breast cancer index lesions located within its scanning range without limitations due to tumor size, grade, or histological subtype, according to a Dutch study presented at RSNA 2015 in Chicago.

December 13, 2015

Small fluorescent dye eases NIR-II imaging

By Belle Dumé

Researchers are reporting on the first small-molecule fluorescent dye for "near-infrared-II" (NIR-II) imaging. The dye, which is rapidly excreted by the body, could be used to image tumors in vivo and for image-guided surgery and therapy (Nature Materials, 23 November 2015).

December 10, 2015

Automated CAC fares well in CT lung screening scans

By Eric Barnes

Automated coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring is robust and accurate when applied to lung cancer screening exams -- even when applied to a different population than the algorithm was designed for, according to results presented at RSNA 2015 in Chicago.

December 9, 2015

Support grows for screening for Chagas disease

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Latin American migrants in Spain should be screened for Chagas disease, particularly women before pregnancy, using transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE), ECG, and MRI if results are abnormal, according to research presented at the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging annual meeting, held last week in Seville, Spain.

December 7, 2015

Tomosynthesis boosts accuracy in cancer cases

By Philip Ward

Digital tomosynthesis can improve the diagnostic accuracy and confidence of chest radiography in oncologic patients with suspected pulmonary lesions, and it allows CT to be skipped in about 50% of cases, Italian researchers found in a study published online on 1 December by European Radiology.

December 6, 2015

Breast density alone not a cancer risk factor

By Kate Madden Yee

High density of breast tissue alone is not a strong independent risk factor for cancer, according to a study by Croatian researchers presented at this week's RSNA 2015 meeting in Chicago.

December 2, 2015

MRI shows how heart changes during deep dives

By Wayne Forrest

CHICAGO - Cardiac MRI has uncovered the unusual ability of free divers -- who descend hundreds of feet into the ocean while holding their breath -- to develop "compensatory mechanisms" to recover heart function within minutes of breathing again.

December 1, 2015

Lightpoint receives 2.4 million euro grant for breast cancer trial

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Luminescence imaging technology developer Lightpoint Medical received a 2.4 million euro grant from the European Commission to carry out a large-scale clinical trial in breast cancer.

December 1, 2015

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