Archive for the ‘MRI / PET / Ultrasound’ Category
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), prides itself on outstanding service to complement its innovative technology. Remote technology is one example of how GE is transforming essential services into extraordinary outcomes. Today, the company has proudly announced its 10,000th InSiteExC remote connection when it ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report documents a dramatic surge in the use of high tech imaging under Medicare Part B, with rapid growth in spending, and draws attention to a substantial variation in the use of services across regions that suggests not all utilization is necessary or appropriate. ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Three to five million central lines are placed into people's hearts in the United States every year. Some have complications, and these are costly. There are two methods of placement, ultrasound guided placement, and placement by hand, or the 'landmark' technique. Ultrasound guidance has fewer complications, but is more expensive. ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Peter J. Ell, director of the institute of nuclear medicine and chair of nuclear medicine at the University College London, U.K., was awarded the 2008 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award for his contributions to the nuclear medicine profession. The award was presented during SNM's 55th Annual Meeting - ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Peter J. Ell, director of the institute of nuclear medicine and chair of nuclear medicine at the University College London, U.K., was awarded the 2008 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award for his contributions to the nuclear medicine profession. The award was presented during SNM's 55th Annual Meeting - ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
SNM - an international scientific and professional organization of more than 16,000 members dedicated to promoting the practical applications, technology and science of molecular imaging and nuclear medicine - has awarded $170,000 in research grants to support nuclear medicine and molecular imaging research. The awards, supported by SNM's Education and ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Swedish and British scientists have shown using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that the hormone oxytocin can inhibit feelings of anxiety in specific individuals. Their discovery might lead to a better understanding and the improved treatment of psychiatric affections in which people feel distressed when meeting others, such as in ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
InSightec Ltd. announced that the first U.S. patient has been treated in the company's pivotal trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the non-invasive, radiation-free ExAblate(R) Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) system as a pain relieving treatment for patients with bone metastases who have failed an initial round of ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
A study presented at Digestive Disease Week® 2008 examined the American College of Radiology's (ACR) CT colonography guidelines recommending that polyps ≤ 5mm in size not be reported on CT colonography by applying them to an endoscopic database that collected information about polyps that had been removed and processed. The ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Magnetic resonance imaging yields deep insights into the atomic structure of a biomolecule, for instance, or into the tissues of a patient's body. Magnetic resonance imaging is one of the most important imaging methods used in medicine. However, MRI scanning has one major disadvantage: The machines are huge and extremely ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
GE Healthcare, the US$17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company (GE), is working with medical leaders in the Olympic Movement to advance the use of innovative medical imaging technologies to provide insight into athlete health, as well as benefits for the general public. The company will supply a broad ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
The July issue if the American Journal of Roentgenology marks the official debut of new editor-in-chief, Thomas H. Berquist, MD of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Jacksonville, FL. Beginning with this issue, Dr. Berquist has created a new level of editors for the AJR. These section editors are ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:EPIX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel therapeutics through the use of its proprietary and highly efficient in silico drug discovery platform, announced today that the New Drug Application (NDA) for its novel blood pool magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) agent, Vasovist (gadofosveset trisodium) was ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Applisonix LTD (TASE: APLS), a developer of innovative ultrasound based solutions for the aesthetic market, announced that the test conducted using its hair removal prototype achieved, following an initial treatment, average hair ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Cardiac CT and MRI allow experts to see inside the heart and vessels and structures in detail. In addition to constructing a large heart imaging center at the UK Gill Heart Institute, the University of Kentucky is offering more patients access to this technology through a new cardiac CT service ...
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