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Study questions timing of PET imaging for radiation therapy planning
PET imaging of non-small cell lung cancer prior to receiving radiation therapy should not be the basis for determining areas that may benefit from higher doses of radiation, according to research presented this week at the 2009 American Society of Radiation Oncology meeting. More »
Hologic showcases new Mammosite at ASTRO 2009
A version of Hologic’s partial breast irradiation device, the MammoSite ML, took center stage this week at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology meeting. More »
Faith is no substitute for data
I grew up believing that you get what you pay for. Look for sales, not knockoffs. Buy inexpensive, not cheap. Those were my shopping tenets, handed down by parents who lived through the Great Depression. After many years of believing this, I’m sorry to say the tenets may not actually hold, at least... More »
Ionizing radiation worries meet arachnophobia
Radiologists in Manchester, U.K., and Ghent, Belgium, have carried out highresolution CT on the 50-million-year-old fossilized remains of a spider embedded in amber, according to a report from October 2007 on physorg.com More »
Custom CT protocol exposes Cedars-Sinai patients to excessive dose
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the prestigious Los Angeles healthcare institution known as the hospital to the Hollywood stars, has been jolted by an FDA alert indicating that perfusion CT performed during an 18-month period exposed more than 200 stroke patients to eight times the normal dose of... More »
Agfa to unveil CR, DR products at RSNA 2009
A next generation computed radiography (CR) system and two digital radiography (DR) systems will debut in the Agfa Healthcare booth during RSNA 2009. More »
PET radiotracer enters Alzheimer trial
Bayer Schering Pharma of Germany will provide its experimental PET radiotracer florbetaben to the Swiss-based biopharmaceutical company AC Immune to evaluate the effects of a vaccine being tested to treat patients with Alzheimer´s disease. More »
Lantheus rebrands MR agent Vasovist
Vasovist has been rebranded as Ablavar by its new owner, Lantheus Medical. More »
MRI cracks down on ‘age doping’ in international sports
MRI has been adopted as a definitive measure for fair play by the International Federation of Association Football, the governing body for international soccer competition. FIFA will launch a program of random MRI wrist screening to verify the age of players competing in the Under-17 World Cup... More »
Breast digital tomo reduces recalls, detects more cancer
Despite lacking FDA approval, breast digital tomosynthesis is already making waves in the breast imaging community. More »
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