Catch up on a variety of FDA news in radiology from the past week.
|Articles|March 8, 2009
Industry News: Varian stresses XR components
Author(s)Greg Freiherr
The bits and pieces that make digital radiography are center stage at the Varian Medical Systems booth.
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The bits and pieces that make digital radiography are center stage at the Varian Medical Systems booth. The company is emphasizing its new G-296 rotating anode X-ray tube developed for use with flat panel digital detectors, an insert specifically designed for general radiology, and cineradiographic and fluoroscopic procedures. Other highlights will be Varian’s line of PaxScan flat panel X-ray image detectors for digital radiography and X-ray tubes for fluoroscopy, angiography, cardiology and cone-beam CT imaging.
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Emerging research demonstrates the increasing stability of attenuation on clinically relevant VMIs with photon-counting CT and a redefined role of kV that may have implications for longitudinal quantitative CT.
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In the second of a two-part podcast episode, Lauren Nicola, MD, Christoph Wald, MD, PhD, MBA, and Peter Shen discuss challenges with evaluating value and ROI for AI software, the physician time required to do so, and possible solutions to facilitate improved clarity and consistency with AI reimbursement.
In the latest episode of her “Breast Imaging in Focus” series, Manisha Bahl, MD, MPH, FSBI, offer pertinent takeaways for breast radiologists from recently issued guidelines for addressing proliferative breast lesions with atypia and lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS).
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