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November 30, 2007 An overwhelming majority of the audience at an RSNA special focus session Thursday voted in favor of keeping up the efforts to get FDA approval for the use of contrast ultrasound for general radiology applications. More » November 30, 2007 Professional attendance at the 2007 RSNA meeting saw a 3% increase compared with last year. Society officers credit a large contingent of international attendees for the rising figures. More » November 30, 2007 Toshiba America Medical Systems upgraded its Xario XG and Aplio ultrasound sytems with three transducers, each capable of volumetric scanning. The additions expand the range of these systems, which previously had depended on only one transducer for 4D imaging. The transducers can be applied to... More » November 30, 2007 Medison America spotlights the Accuvix V10 this week at the RSNA meeting. The ultrasound scanner, which appeared last year as a work-in-progress, cleared the FDA in spring. It supports 3D/4D imaging, as well as spectral, color, and power Doppler. More » November 30, 2007 This year for the first time the RSNA meeting offered a scientific abstract session dedicated exclusively to pediatric CT and dose. Papers from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. reflect that the growing concern over radiation exposure from medical imaging, particularly in young patients, has reached almost... More » November 30, 2007 Vantage Titan, a wide-bore 1.5T scanner, highlights MR offerings from Toshiba America Medical Systems at the RSNA meeting this week. The work-in-progress features a bore 18% wider than any 1.5T scanner currently on the market, according to the company. A specially designed gradient system offers an... More » November 30, 2007 In what is possibly the largest study in its kind, Harvard University researchers have shown that PET/CT can reliably tell whether unsuspected adrenal lesions discovered while managing oncologic patients are benign or malignant. More » November 30, 2007 Radiologists who wonder why diagnostic imaging has been targeted for utilization constraints need only examine the Medicare B experience from 2000 to 2005. Medicare payments for outpatient medical imaging rose 93% during that period from $6 billion to more than $11 billion. The increase reflected a... More » November 30, 2007 The lack of an effective, detailed workup algorithm for positive results in multicenter lung cancer screening trials results in a lower cancer yield from invasive procedures and later diagnoses for participants, according to a new study presented at the RSNA meeting. More » November 30, 2007 The palm-sized Acuson P10 ultrasound scanner appears this week as a commercial product from Siemens Medical Solutions along with the laptop-based Acuson P50. The P50 is designed for mobile environments but is outfitted with diagnostic-level capabilities, including high-quality gray-scale as well as... More » November 29, 2007 Philips Medical Systems is showing this week its next-generation large-bore PET/CT at the RSNA meeting. The new hybrid, appearing as a work-in-progress, combines the Gemini TF (True Flight) PET/CT with time-of-flight technology and the Brilliance wide-bore CT. The PET/CT features an 85-cm diameter... More » November 29, 2007 Confirma is showing at the RSNA meeting its breast MR coil enhanced with interventional components. Launched at RSNA 2006 as a purely diagnostic device, the Access Breast Coil is now outfitted with a grid plate and stabilization plate, a configuration cleared in July by the FDA. The four-channel... More » November 29, 2007 Nearly all lung nodules were segmented successfully with a point-and-click approach from four out of five vendor programs. Even with this approach, however, intraobserver 3D volumetric measurement agreement was close to but not 100% repeatable. More » November 29, 2007 Radiologists must become more alert to the extensive range of health problems faced by patients who swallow fish bones, according to a thought-provoking poster from Spain that was one of eight international exhibits to scoop a prestigious Magna Cum Laude award in the vast RSNA 2007 poster hall on... More » November 29, 2007 A new ultrasound system and an upgrade to an existing product from Esoate address interest in compact ultrasound. More » November 29, 2007 The S-2000 ultrasound scanner, takes shape this week as a new commercial product at the high end of the Siemens Medical Systems’ ultrasound portfolio. The S-2000, cleared by the FDA in mid-October, does not replace the Sequoia, Siemens’ flagship since it acquired ultrasound pioneer Acuson six years... More » November 29, 2007 The hierarchy of ultrasound systems at Hitachi Medical Systems America has a new flagship. Particularly noteworthy on the HI Vision 900 is an elastographic capability that characterizes pathologies based on ultrasonic measurements of the relative stiffness of tissue. More » November 29, 2007 A New England Journal of Medicine review article published Thursday targets the cancer risks of CT at the same time that hundreds of scientific presentations and new products at the 2007 RSNA meeting are fueling multislice CT’s continued growth. More » November 29, 2007 The latest evolution of GE Healthcare's Signa HD x (high definition x) platform offers MR pulse sequences that overcome barriers to diagnostic scans in some difficult-to-image patients. The xt version, shown at the RSNA meeting, features two major innovations: 3D Cube and Ideal. More » November 29, 2007 Computer-aided detection figures prominently in the Siemens Medical Systems booth at this year’s RSNA meeting. The company is featuring packages for colon cancer, pulmonary embolism, and lung nodules in several work-in-progress versions. More »
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Siemens puts the interventional into I Robot An eight-foot robot arm spins, turns, and twists to demonstrate the unprecedented flexibility of an interventional system debuting at the Siemens Medical Solutions booth. Siemens exec Thomas Truesdell describes for Diagnostic Imaging's business editor Greg Freiherr how this work-in-progress Artis zeego can make interventions easier and more productive.
Toshiba goes beyond 256 slices in CT The promise of a flat-panel CT detector was realized on the RSNA exhibit floor with the unveiling of Toshiba America Medical Systems' Aquilion One. Toshiba exec Doug Ryan explains for Diagnostic Imaging's business editor Greg Freiherr why the company expanded the device to 320 detector rows from the 256 in the prototype tested earlier this year.
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