Keywords: Mammogrpahy
09/01/2009
Tomovation
Since its foundation by Michael Friebe PhD in 2003, and on the basis of 10 years of business activity in radiology, Tomovation has become an established provider of high-end …
07/22/2009
The future of digital mammography
Digital mammography, which is considered the gold standard of breast imaging, has rendered image management and consequently the entire purely on-screen diagnostic process …
07/01/2009
Breast Specific Gamma Imaging Supports Mammography
Breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) is a promising new technology designed to supplement mammography and breast ultrasound examinations when these show suspicious findings. By …
06/21/2009
State-of-the-art in digital mammography
Reducing dose and producing excellent image quality at the same time is the challenge of today´s mammography systems. The Institute for Clinical Radiology at the University …
05/28/2009
Carestream Health with new PACS project in Belgium
Carestream Health has won three contracts for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) to view, manage and store digital mammography images for healthcare initiatives …
05/01/2009
The switch from analogue to digital
Analogue screening systems are gradually being replaced by digital mammography systems, and breast cancer screening programmes are increasing sales. The majority of European …
05/01/2009
Radiographers share expertise at ECR 2009
Although the majority of the 18,000 participants at ECR 2009 were radiologists, medical writer Rob Skelding reports that a specific session for radiographers was well attended. …
05/01/2009
Breast screening in Belgium
Not so long ago this country, of considerable linguistic division, was a split into three regions, referred to as Flemish (with five provinces), Walloon (with five provinces) and …
05/01/2009
29th Annual Congress of the German Society for Senology
Every year the German Society for Senology congress facilitates interdisciplinary breast cancer discussion between gynaecologists, radiologists, surgeons, pathologists, …
05/01/2009
Magnetic resonance mammography
Women in families with a history of breast cancer have a significantly higher risk of developing the disease. …
03/08/2009
Womens Health in Pink
Arriving at the Austrian Congress Center in Vienna, a pink truck is striking the eyes of the visitors of ECR. The truck took the long way from Belgium to Austria to demonstrate a …
03/08/2009
Carestreams RIS Mammography Module Improves Screening Administration
It is not only the examination itself that makes mammography screening programmes successful, an intelligent integration of the data into the hospital´s RIS is another integral …
03/07/2009
SecondLook Digital CAD software for Mammography
SecondLook Digital from iCAD is Philips new computer aided detection solution for early breast cancer detection. It supports physicians in identifying and marking suspicious …
03/07/2009
ECR delivers new findings and key updates on DBTs potential
Delegates at the 2009 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) saw a series of presentations Friday unveiling new findings and key updates on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). As …
03/07/2009
MR Breast Care with Open Bore and its Pink!
On this years ECR Siemens Healthcare presents its dedicated MRI breast scanner. With its pink design it immediately catches the eye on the companys booth. In an interview with …
03/07/2009
Breast cancers vary in complexity
Dr Giorgio Rizzatto, who heads the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at ASS 2 Isontina (including the Gorizia and Monfalcone hospitals) in NE Italy, works with nine radiologists, …
03/07/2009
Multimodality in breast diagnostics and therapy
Early detection currently remains the most promising way to optimise the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, lower the mortality rate resulting from this disease, and …
03/07/2009
Breast screening in the Netherlands
The Dutch screening programme, which began in 1990, invites women aged 50-75 years for mammography screening every two years. Today, the national programme is undergoing …
03/01/2009
Photon counting
Photo detection at low light levels where single photon absorption events are counted, according to an internationally renowned medical imaging scientist, in terms of X-ray …
02/11/2009
Sectra enters the Greek market
The Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra has signed a distribution agreement with the Greek company Proton S.A., a provider of medical imaging and security systems …
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