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ScImage updates echo reporting standards
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
ScImage has updated its cardiac quantification metrics to match guidelines from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.
March 1, 2015
Siemens readies new handheld ultrasound unit for ECR
By Erik L. Ridley
Handheld ultrasound systems represent a rapidly growing segment of the ultrasound market, and prospective purchasers will soon have an additional entrant to consider. Siemens Healthcare will unveil Acuson P500, a new handheld ultrasound platform, at this week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna.
March 1, 2015
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Info on 'overdiagnosis' saps interest in breast screening
By Kate Madden Yee
Giving women more information about the negative aspects of mammography, such as overdiagnosis, makes them less inclined to want breast screening, according to a new Australian study published online February 17 in Lancet.
March 1, 2015
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DTI-MRI shows muscle distress in marathon runners
By Wayne Forrest
The marathon season is fast approaching, and people training to run those 26.2 miles will endure countless aches, pains, and muscle pulls. Dutch researchers are using diffusion-tensor MRI (DTI-MRI) to gain new insight into the toll that long-distance races take on the human body.
February 25, 2015
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Relaxing times for cardiologists
By Dr. Peter Rinck, PhD
The holy grail of diagnostic imaging is noninvasive tissue characterization and the external identification of human cell structures and organ function, if possible without even touching the body, according to the Maverinck. Relaxation times are key but controversial.
February 24, 2015
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Patient leaflets hold no sway in breast cancer screening
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Patient information leaflets did not affect the willingness of women to participate in mammography screening, a German study has found.
February 23, 2015
Mediso, Tübingen partner on preclinical PET/MRI
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Nuclear imaging firm Mediso Medical Imaging Systems and the University of Tübingen have entered into a collaboration to develop a whole-body preclinical PET insert based on silicon photomultiplier sensor technology.
February 23, 2015
Sectra passes IHE tests for DBT
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Sectra said its PACS successfully completed testing of the Mammo and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) profiles at the recent North American IHE Connectathon in Cleveland.
February 23, 2015
Results of Dutch-Belgian screening trial can be widely applied
By Eric Barnes
Individuals scanned with CT in the Nederlands-Leuvens Longkanker Screenings Onderzoek (NELSON) lung cancer screening trial had a similar risk of cancer as people who did not participate in the study, meaning the research can be generalized to a wider population.
February 22, 2015
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Endomag begins trial of breast cancer staging system
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
U.K. cancer care technology developer Endomag said that a pivotal clinical trial is underway in the U.S. for its Sentimag and Sienna+ magnetic detection system, which is designed to stage breast cancer during sentinel lymph node biopsy procedures.
February 18, 2015
Ultrasound Doppler mode detects low-grade MSK inflammation
By Erik L. Ridley
A new Doppler ultrasound technique can provide better visualization of low-grade inflammation in joints and tendons than power Doppler ultrasound, yielding clinical information that often influences patient management, a team of U.K. researchers recently found.
February 18, 2015
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Biotronik highlights ProMRI clinical studies
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Biomedical device company Biotronik is highlighting clinical studies published in the journal Heart Rhythm that validate the safety of its ProMRI pacemakers in patients undergoing MR exams.
February 17, 2015
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