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Philips unwraps echo quantification tool

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare is introducing its HeartModelA.I. cardiac ultrasound quantification software at this week's American Society of Echocardiography conference in Boston.

June 11, 2015

Low-res monitors not so low after all in breast scans

By Rebekah Moan

Experience is not a factor when it comes to interpreting mammograms on lower resolution, cheaper viewing devices. And LCD monitors with image manipulation software are suitable for viewing mammograms for training purposes, found a U.K. study that included findings on iPhone use.

June 11, 2015

SNMMI: FDG-PET/CT predicts ovarian cancer survival

By Wayne Forrest

BALTIMORE - FDG-PET/CT scans can help predict disease progression and overall survival of ovarian cancer patients for as long as several years after treatment, according to a German presentation made on 9 June at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting.

June 10, 2015

SNMMI: Germans scoop Image of the Year award

By Wayne Forrest

BALTIMORE - German research using a PET radiotracer for prostate cancer that can be labeled with different radioisotopes for diagnostic or therapeutic use won the Image of the Year prize at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting.

June 8, 2015

SNMMI: PET prostate image lands Image of the Year honors

By Wayne Forrest

BALTIMORE - A PET radiotracer for prostate cancer that can be labeled with different radioisotopes for both diagnostic and therapeutic use won Image of the Year honors at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting.

June 8, 2015

German breast experts set to discuss U.S. standards

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

More than 300 experts are due to gather in Frankfurt, Germany, this weekend for a consensus meeting on breast cancer diagnosis, according to the German Radiological Society (DRG).

June 8, 2015

SNMMI: Amyloid scintigraphy predicts major cardiac events

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A new scintigraphy molecular imaging scan can pinpoint the dangerous buildup of amyloid proteins in the heart and predict major adverse cardiac events, according to a study presented this week at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging conference in Baltimore.

June 7, 2015

Kromek launches new line of SPECT cameras

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation detection technology firm Kromek said it has launched eVance, a new line of SPECT cameras with cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) digital detectors.

June 4, 2015

U.K. universities develop mini gamma camera

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A compact camera that combines gamma ray and optical imaging could bring big changes to the way tumors and lymph nodes are identified and removed, according to a pair of U.K. universities that are developing the device.

June 4, 2015

NEJM: Breast cancer screening reduces mortality by 40%

By Kate Madden Yee

Another salvo in the screening mammography wars has been released in the form of a literature review in the New England Journal of Medicine suggesting that breast cancer screening reduces mortality by 40%. Both sides of the breast screening debate may be able to gain ammunition from the report's findings, however.

June 3, 2015

Riccabona awarded WARMTH Lifetime Achievement Award

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Dr. Georg Riccabona, professor emeritus of the department of nuclear medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Association of Radiopharmaceutical and Molecular Therapy (WARMTH).

June 2, 2015

MR fingerprinting returns -- and hopefully disappears again

By Dr. Peter Rinck, PhD

Some cardiologists have scientific shortcomings in imaging science, the Maverinck believes. The experiments, methods, and results described went out of date years ago; even dressed in "new clothes" they are inadequate and deficient in precision and accuracy, he writes. Radiologists have their own new clothes: MR fingerprinting.

June 2, 2015

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