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Digirad applies for FDA clearance
Digital gamma camera developer Digirad of San Diego hasfiled forregulatory clearance with the Food and Drug Administration forits lead product, Notebook Imager. If and when the applicationis cleared, Notebook Imager will become the first solid-stategamma
Digital gamma camera developer Digirad of San Diego hasfiled forregulatory clearance with the Food and Drug Administration forits lead product, Notebook Imager. If and when the applicationis cleared, Notebook Imager will become the first solid-stategamma camera to be marketed commercially.
Notebook Imager is a portable gamma camera that uses a cadmiumzinc telluride detector array rather than scintillation crystalsand photomultiplier tubes, as conventional Anger-style camerasdo (SCAN 6/5/96). Digirad hopes to receive FDA clearance and beginmarketing the system next year.
To help ramp up its manufacturing and product-testing effort,Digirad completed a $6 million financing issued to a group ofventure-capital firms. Proceeds from the funding will be usedto finish beta-site testing and develop a manufacturing capacityfor Notebook Imager. The funding was led by Sorrento Ventures,and included Kingsbury Capital Partners and several individualinvestors.
European Society of Breast Imaging Issues Updated Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations
April 24th 2024One of the recommendations from the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) is annual breast MRI exams starting at 25 years of age for women deemed to be at high risk for breast cancer.
Study Reveals Benefits of Photon-Counting CT for Assessing Acute Pulmonary Embolism
April 23rd 2024In comparison to energy-integrating detector CT for the workup of suspected acute pulmonary embolism, the use of photon-counting detector CT reduced radiation dosing by 48 percent, according to newly published research.
