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AMD Appoints BK Medical As Agent For Prostate HistoScanningâ„¢ In The UK
Advanced Medical Diagnostics SA (AMD), a privately held company committed to providing innovative computer-aided solutions (HistoScanningâ„¢) that can improve the diagnostic interpretation of ultrasound scans, announced that it has appointed BK Medical UK Ltd as sole agent for Prostate HistoScanningâ„¢ in the UK...

Nanosized Contrast Agents Used In Noninvasive MR Imaging Of Blood Vessel Growth In Tumors
Formation of new blood vessels, also known as angiogenesis, is crucial for sustained tumor growth and cancer metastasis. Recently, clinically available therapies to suppress the growth of these vessels have been available to improve patient survival in some cancer types...

Siemens Announces First Orders Of New Aera And Skyra MRI Systems
Siemens Healthcare is pleased to announce its first orders of the MAGNETOM® Aera 1.5 Tesla and MAGNETOM® Skyra 3 Tesla MRI systems following recent product launches into the UK market...

GE Healthcare To Develop Scanning Devices For Pediatrics
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), in collaboration with Cincinnati Children's Medical Center and the Davis Heart and Lung Institute of The Ohio State University, was awarded $1 million for (MRI) magnetic resonance imaging and devices for the "Pediatrics Population" project...

Medicare Announces Demonstration Testing Decision Support Systems For Advanced Medical Imaging Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is soliciting proposals for participation in the Medicare Imaging Demonstration (MID)...

Early Bird Registration Ending For Focused Ultrasound Symposium
The Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation issued a reminder that early bird registration discounts will end on Saturday, July 31 for the upcoming 2nd International Symposium on MR-guided Focused Ultrasound. Prior to the deadline, standard registration will cost $350 and registration for residents, students and trainees will be $250...

Brain Scans May Help Guide Career Choice
General aptitude tests and specific mental ability tests are important tools for vocational guidance...

Researchers Use Nanoparticles As Destructive Beacons To Zap Tumors
A group of researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is developing a way to treat cancer by using lasers to light up tiny nanoparticles and destroy tumors with the ensuing heat...

Where's The Doctor? Next Generation Surgical Robots
As physician-guided robots routinely operate on patients at most major hospitals, the next generation robot could eliminate a surprising element from that scenario -- the doctor...

Heart Specialist Revolutionises 3D Imaging With "Slice" Technique
A leading cardiologist based at Southampton's teaching hospitals is the first in the world to develop a unique technique to "slice" 3D images of the heart into intricate sections using computer software...

Siemens UROSKOP Offers Complete Urinary Tract Imaging In A Single Scan
Siemens Healthcare announces FDA clearance for the UROSKOP® Omnia, its new multifunctional workstation for urology. The workstation's new dynamic flat detector technology UROSKOP Omnia allows the urologist to cover the entire urinary tract - kidney, ureter, bladder (KUB) - with only one single exposure and in superb image quality...

Image-Processing Algorithm Reduces CT Radiation Dose By As Much As 95 Percent
Perfusion CT scanning, an emerging imaging technology, got a bad rap last year when a machine set to incorrect radiation levels overdosed hundreds of people in Los Angeles...

Vanderbilt First To Use Specialized PET/CT Scan To Uncover Cancerous Tumors
Vanderbilt University Medical Center and affiliated VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System are the first in the U.S. to perform a specialized PET/CT scan to successfully locate the presence of tumors. The improved imaging allows surgeons to more easily locate and remove cancerous tumors, according to Ronald Walker, M.D., professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences...

Faster Tracking Of Lung Tumors May Help Treatment
Today, at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Philadelphia, a group of researchers from Stanford University will describe the latest developments toward their goal of integrating two existing medical devices -- medical linear accelerators, or "linacs," which produce powerful X-rays for treating cancer, and magnetic resonance i...

Rcadia COR Analyzer® System Demonstrates Potential For Coronary Artery Disease Patient Triage In Low To Moderate Risk Patients
Rcadia Medical Imaging announced presentation of five studies demonstrating the potential of its COR Analyzer® System to assist in ruling out significant coronary artery stenosis (narrowing) in patients at low to intermediate risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing coronary computer tomography (cCTA)...