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11/19/2009
Parascript Announces AccuDetect 3.0 Computer Aided Detection (CAD) Algorithms With Improved Performance For CAD Vendors And Manufacturers Of Mammography Systems
Parascript, LLC, the image analysis and pattern recognition technology provider, today announced the release of AccuDetect 3.0, the next generation of its computer-aided detection (CAD) software with...
Source: Parascript, LLC |
11/18/2009
Large Connecticut Radiology Practice Goes 100% Paperless With MedInformatix RIS
Naugatuck Valley Radiology Associates (NVRA) holds a prominent place in the central Connecticut medical community. The 125-person practice includes eighteen radiologists operating out of six location...
Source: MedInformatix |
11/17/2009
For Many, Mammography Every Other Year Has Benefits Of Annual Screening, But Less Harm
A comprehensive analysis of various mammography screening schedules suggests that biennial (every two years) screening of average risk women between the ages of 50 and 74 achieves most of the benefits...
Source: Georgetown University Medical Center |
11/17/2009
Imaging Techniques May Help Predict Response To Head And Neck Cancer Treatment
A combination of imaging tests conducted six to eight weeks after patients complete chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancer may help identify patients who will respond to treatment and those who wi...
Source: JAMA and Archives Journals |
11/17/2009
Structured Reporting Software Creates Less Complete And Accurate Radiology Reports Than Free Text
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – As many software companies work to create programs that will give uniform structure to the way radiological test results are reported, a new study by researchers at Wake Forest U...
Source: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center |
11/16/2009
USPSTF Mammography Recommendations Will Result in Countless Unnecessary Breast Cancer Deaths Each Year
If cost-cutting U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) mammography recommendations are adopted as policy, two decades of decline in breast cancer mortality could be reversed and countless Americ...
Source: American College of Radiology |
11/13/2009
Advances in Radiation Therapy Enable Doctors to Improve the Quality of Treatments for Patients With Head and Neck Cancer
Clinical studies suggest that advanced treatments like intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) are enabling radiation oncologists to enhance post-treatment health-...
Source: Varian Medical Systems, Inc. |
11/13/2009
NIAID Announces New Award to Study the Effects of Radiation and Aging on the Human Immune System
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded nearly $9.7 million over five years to the Radiation Effects Research Foundati...
Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) |
11/12/2009
When Seconds Count: Interventional Radiology Treatment For Pulmonary Embolism Saves Lives
Catheter-directed therapy or catheter-directed thrombolysis—an interventional radiology treatment that uses targeted image-guided drug delivery with specially designed catheters to dissolve dangerous...
Source: Society of Interventional Radiology |
11/11/2009
Shimadzu and EDDA Announce Business Partnership on X-ray Chest CAD Applications
Shimadzu Corporation (Kyoto Japan) and EDDA Technology Inc. (Princeton, NJ, USA) today announced that both parties have entered into a business partnership on X-ray chest CAD systems based on the Radi...
Source: Edda Technology, Inc. |
11/10/2009
New Study in Clinical Cancer Research Shows Therapeutic Promise of Peregrine's Bavituximab With Radiation in a Lethal Brain Cancer Model
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that a newly published study shows that a phosphatidylserine (PS)-targeting antibody similar to the company's lead product candidate bavituximab demons...
Source: Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
11/10/2009
Scientific Presentations at 2009 ASTRO Meeting Highlight RapidArc® Radiotherapy Technology from Varian Medical Systems
Clinicians using RapidArc® radiotherapy technology for fast, precise, non-invasive cancer treatments have found that they are able to substantially reduce scatter dose to surrounding healthy tissues,...
Source: Varian Medical Systems, Inc. |
11/10/2009
Stem Cells Restore Cognitive Abilities Impaired By Brain Tumor Treatment, UCI Study Finds
Irvine, Calif. – Human embryonic stem cells could help people with learning and memory deficits after radiation treatment for brain tumors, suggests a new UC Irvine study....
Source: University of California - Irvine |
11/10/2009
Persistent Pain Common For Many Women 2 To 3 Years After Breast Cancer Treatment
Nearly 50 percent of women surveyed indicate they experience pain symptoms 2 to 3 years after breast cancer treatment, with women who were younger or who received supplemental radiation therapy more l...
Source: JAMA and Archives Journals |
11/9/2009
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and UF Proton Therapy Institute to Begin Proton Therapy Clinical Trial
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute have formed a collaboration to provide proton therapy for St. Jude patients. The announcement follows the a...
Source: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
11/9/2009
PET Imaging Response a Prognostic Factor After Thoracic Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer
(PHILADELPHIA) A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to a study presented by...
Source: Thomas Jefferson University |
11/6/2009
First Use of Antibody and Stem Cell Transplantation to Successfully Treat Advanced Leukemia
For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have reported the use of a radiolabeled antibody to deliver targeted doses of radiation, followed by a stem cell transplant, t...
Source: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
11/6/2009
Researcher: 'Optical Biopsy' for Breast Cancer Increasingly Accurate
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Most biopsies following mammograms reveal benign abnormalities, not cancer....
Source: University of Florida |
11/5/2009
Chemo-Radiation Before Prostate Removal May Prevent Cancer Recurrence
PORTLAND, Ore. — Researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center have found a combination of radiation therapy and chemot...
Source: Oregon Health & Science University |
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