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06/20/2007

Digital breast tomosynthesis

By Thomas Mertelmeier, Principal Scientist at Siemens AG Medical Solutions …

06/20/2007

Hospital group streamlines screening

Italy — One of the biggest RIS/PACS implementations in Europe is being co-ordinated the Area Vasta Centro (AVC) group, which runs 12 hospitals in central Tuscany. Among these, …

06/20/2007

Buzz words: digital mammography

Full field digital mammography (FFDM) and computed radiography (CR) based mammography systems may bring hospitals and breast imaging services closer to gaining digital …

06/18/2007

European Commission is open for amendment of the directive on the use of MRI

After a new study published by Professor Stuart Crozier has shown that the use of MR in the clinical practice will not be possible when realizing the EU Physical Agents Directive …

06/13/2007

27 th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Senology

This year´s congress of the German Society of Senology (June 21.-23. in Lübeck, Germany) will deal with latest developments in the diagnosis and therapy of breast cancer like …

06/11/2007

Sectra will lead EU research-project to decrease mortality in breast cancer

The Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra, together with clinical and industrial partners from six European countries, has been awarded EUR 3.6 million from the …

06/01/2007

Cardiac MSCT with SURE Plaque - Initial experience and future perspectives

Ongoing refinement of modern spiral multi-slice CT scanners offers the opportunity for very high temporal and spatial resolution thin-slice data set acquisition. The econstruction …

06/01/2007

Child abuse - radiological images provide important hints

The number of unreported cases of child abuse is extremely high. Experts estimate that there are at least twice as much cases as registered yearly. One reason for this disastrous …

06/01/2007

CORE64 - Coronary Evaluation on 64

The goal of CORE64 is to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of computed tomography angiography (CTA) compared to coronary angiography (CAG) in patients with suspected coronary …

06/01/2007

Transrectal Ultrasound in Prostate Cancer: State of the Art

The current prostate cancer disease burden is considerable due to the high prevalence of the disease, widespread early detection, and the relatively long survival time since many …

05/30/2007

It will identify millions with 'silent heart disease'

'If you want to find a needle in a haystack, X-ray is a good tool. Now imagine how much easer that would be if the needle could glow.' …

05/30/2007

3D/4D Imaging in Obstretics - Lifestyle or diagnostic tool?

3D technology is a groundbreaking modality in obstetric ultrasound. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that this diagnostic tool is but a omplement to high resolution 2D ultrasound …

05/29/2007

Oncology

In recent years new imaging procedures have delivered many answers and solutions for oncological diagnostics and therapy. However, one question could not be answered: Is a tumour …

05/21/2007

Current issues in contrast media administration - gadolinium compounds et alii*

Already in 1993, the world market for contrast media was thought to be worth $ 3 billion. In 2001, an astonishing 12.2 million contrast medium-supported CT studies were carried …

05/16/2007

What's on at the 88th German Radiology Congress?

Like any other congress, the 88th German Radiology Congress will present the latest research, workshops and refresher courses. …

05/08/2007

Technological synergies effective in detecting breast cancer

The use of computer-aided detection (CAD) with computed radiography (CR) is very effective in the detection of breast cancer according to a recent study at George Washington …

05/02/2007

Kodak Health Group becomes Carestream Health

Eastman Kodak Company has completed the sale of its Health Group to an affiliate of Onex Corporation for up to $2.55 billion. The acquired business is continuing under the name …

05/01/2007

Want to invest into healthcare?

Dr A Tamosiunas, Associate Professor at the Radiology Centre in the Medical Faculty at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and Director of the Radiology Centre at Vilnius University …

05/01/2007

First approved blood pool contrast agent

Gadofosveset trisodium (trade name: Vasovist) is the first approved blood pool contrast agent worldwide for the diagnosis of vascular disease, Bayer Schering Pharma AG reports. …

05/01/2007

Korean ultrasound firm wins leadership award

Medison, the Korean-based manufacturer of diagnostic ultrasound systems founded in 1985 and pioneer of the first commercial real-time 3-D ultrasound scanner, recently received the …

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