Archive for the ‘Radiology / Nuclear Medicine’ Category
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Premerus, the industry's first and only diagnostic management company (www.premerus.com) will deliver a poster presentation, "Improving Diagnostic Accuracy in Radiologist's Interpretations with Potential Savings," at the nation's first-ever national conference dedicated specifically to diagnostic error in medicine, May 31, 2008, Arizona Grand Resort, Phoenix, AZ. Co-sponsored by American Medical Informatics ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
In both breast and head and neck cancers the risk of local recurrence increases with longer radiotherapy waiting times, finds a Canadian meta-analysis. The study, published in Radiotherapy and Oncology, concludes that delays in radiotherapy treatment should be kept to the minimum time possible. Waiting times for radiotherapy were first ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
MEDX, Inc. released NuQuest(R) V3.0 , the newest version of its nuclear medicine image acquisition and processing software. The updated design vastly increases usability and enhances nuclear medicine connectivity options. The new software is a substantial upgrade from previous versions; its new features include remote desktop support, a quick select ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology has received a record number of abstract submissions for the scientific program to be held at its 50th Annual Meeting taking place September 21-25, 2008, in Boston. A total of 2,036 abstracts were received, which is almost 400 more than the ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
A new study has found that an x-ray dye intended to reduce stress on the kidneys did not prevent renal injury during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients who already had compromised kidney function. In addition, it made no difference in the need for dialysis or in the length of ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Cleveland BioLabs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBLI) announced that recent primate studies have demonstrated the efficacy of Cleveland BioLabs's Protectan CBLB502 as a mitigator of hematopoietic damage up to 48 hours post radiation exposure. Protectan CBLB502 was administered as a single injection at 48 hours post-exposure to 6.5 Gy doses of ionizing ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. has received FDA clearance for two new CT clinical applications that will improve throughput and enhance workflow, while further reducing contrast and radiation dosage. The applications, SURECardio™ Prospective and Variable Helical Pitch (vHP), are available for new Toshiba AquilionTM 32- and 64-slice CT systems. SURECardio ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
TomoTherapy Incorporated (NASDAQ: TOMO) announced plans to install its advanced radiation therapy system at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. Upon completion of installation, this will be the first TomoTherapy® Hi-Art® treatment system in the world to be used for veterinary medicine. Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle recently signed ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
The Royal College of Radiologists welcomes the latest results from the Standardisation of Breast Radiotherapy Trial (START), which has found that radiotherapy treatment for breast cancer can now be given in fewer treatments than the international standard of 25 fractions. Local recurrence in the breast has reduced markedly over the ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Nuclear regulators, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Environment Agency (EA), today announced that the first step of 'Generic Design Assessment' (GDA) carried out on four designs submitted for new nuclear power stations had found nshortfalls at this stage - in terms of safety, security or the environment ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Purdue School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis have created the first three-dimensional image of how a well-established chemotherapy agent targets and binds to DNA. The study, which publishes online the week of March 17 in the Early Edition ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Two papers presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting show that cryoablation -- the minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment to freeze primary kidney tumors without surgery -- is 95 percent effective when the tumors are four centimeters or smaller and nearly 90 percent effective for tumors ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) welcomes this report from the Healthcare Commission (HCC), the first report since it took on the responsibility for monitoring compliance with the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposures) Regulations. The College is pleased to see the adoption of a risk-based approach to regulation, with targeting of ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Researchers involved in a large, multi-institutional study using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with the radiotracer fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) were able to classify different types of dementia with very high rates of success, raising hopes that dementia diagnoses may one day be made at earlier stages."Previously, scientists have been able to ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Imprivata(R), Inc., the converged identity and access management appliance company, announced that Imprivata OneSign(R) Single Sign-On (SSO) solution has been deployed by the Radiology Services department at Henry Ford Health System. Henry Ford is one of the nation's leading health care providers, comprised of more than 17,000 full-time equivalent employees, ...
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