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Virtual colonoscopy is as effective as optical colonoscopy when screening for colorectal cancer, according to a study scheduled for publication in the November issue of the journal Radiology.

GE Healthcare has voluntarily stopped shipping certain mobile C-arm units from its OEC manufacturing facility in Salt Lake City. The company took the action after an FDA inspection in August found “nonconformities in GE Healthcare’s quality system practices,” according to the company.

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Three-T MR, 64-slice CT, PET, and PACS -- each represents a marked advance in clinical capability, just as each has widened the gap between what can and what might be done. A major factor in the size of this gap is continuing medical education.

GE Healthcare launched the latest salvo in its campaign to migrate high-performance capabilities to cost-challenged corners of medicine this week, releasing its lightweight, high-powered Logiq P5 at the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography conference in Denver.

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Six years ago, Hologic looked like a company on the brink. Once the darling of the radiology industry with booming sales of bone densitometers, Hologic had sought to diversify, but its acquisitions were dragging the company down rather than lifting it up.

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MRI should be the first test to evaluate athletes with lower leg pain, but if suspicion of shin splints is high, high-resolution CT can accurately diagnose the problem, according to a study conducted at the University of Messina in Italy.

Korean researchers say that gauging the concentration of contrast enhancement material in urine during CT angiography can help pinpoint reliably renal artery stenosis.

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Two investigative studies have found that MR angiography at 3T produces quality images of the kidneys and excellent cardiac cine images. Researchers used high parallel imaging factors and a 32-element phased-array coil to increase spatial resolution and anatomic coverage.

The Achilles heel of positron imaging is the production of radiotracers. GE’s long-awaited introduction of FastLAB is designed to help remedy this problem.

CT offers a time- and cost-effective rule-out of chest pain in the emergency care setting.