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November 17, 2009 Rather than retreating after the hard blow handed them by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which refused to grant reimbursement for the application in May, CT colonography researchers will arrive at the 2009 RSNA meeting with more of what CMS wants: hard data. More » November 17, 2009 Cardiac imaging researchers are expanding the scope of topics considered at the 2009 RSNA meeting to include iodinated contrast media administration as a safety issue and clinical outcomes studies that weigh the relative merits of cost and clinical efficacy. More » November 17, 2009 Genitourinary scientific papers to be released at the 2009 RSNA meeting underscore attempts to address diagnostic challenges as old as the subspecialty itself by taking advantage of recent technological developments. More » November 17, 2009 In addition to possible death and myocardial damage, acute heart attack patients routinely accept the additional risk of cardiovascular imaging exposing them to ionizing radiation, according to research presented Nov. 16 at the 2009 American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, FL. More » November 13, 2009 OEM-software supplier ContextVision, its sister provider of end user products SharpView, and the Massachusetts General Hospital are investigating advanced 3D image filtering as a means to boost productivity and improve image quality for MRI, as well as cut dose in CT. More » November 11, 2009 With years of slice wars behind them, vendors will argue that image quality and dose reduction are this year’s dominant issues in CT. Most of their arguments will be rooted in past developments. More » November 11, 2009 Dose reduction will be among Siemens’ key messages at the RSNA meeting this year. Driving home this message will be IRIS (iterative reconstruction in image space), a proprietary algorithm that processes raw data acquired by CTs, according to André Hartung, Siemens vice president, CT Marketing... More » November 11, 2009 Imaging advocates, including the American College of Cardiology, cautioned against giving too much credence to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine concluding that adults are exposed to excessive doses of radiation from medical imaging procedures that are not supported by the... More » November 11, 2009 In the coming months, Lantheus Medical Imaging plans to introduce an MR blood pool contrast agent to the U.S. market under the brand name Ablavar. From its booth on the RSNA exhibit floor, company staff will be available to discuss key points about the agent, which was originally developed by Epix... More » November 11, 2009 Developers of CT scanners have been trying to adapt their technology to breast imaging for decades. They have drawn a step closer, thanks to the efforts of researchers at the University of California, Davis. Their efforts may lead to the ability to not only visualize but treat breast cancer. More »
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