Areva Med has formed an advisory committee comprised of five high-level scientists who will provide the firm with strategic advice and scientific guidance in the field of radio-immunotherapy using its lead-212 isotope.
Last month, cardiac CT experts from around the globe gathered at SCCT2010 in Las Vegas to exchange ideas and information about clinical advances in CCTA. The compelling clinical data shared at the meeting complemented promising research about the economics of advanced visualization in the cardiac arena.
SNM has recognized the contributions to the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging during its 57th annual meeting in Salt Lake City.
Enhancing the EHR to consolidate information for comprehensive immunosuppressive medication review following liver transplant was associated with fewer rejection episodes and fewer toxicity events, and it decreased costs, according to a study published in this month's Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.
Responding to limited resident duty hours, the University of Washington implemented a computerized rounding and sign-out system (UW Cores), which resulted in shortened duty hours by facilitating sign-out, decreasing rounding time and sharply reducing the time spent in prerounds data recopying, according to an article in the July edition of Academic Medicine.
Cardinal Health and the University of Washington have collaborated for the use molecular imaging in clinical investigations and trials.
A Worcester Polytechnic Institute research team has received a four-year, $1.4 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue a study of arterial plaque, which is seeking to predict the likelihood of plaque rupture.
A high percentage of CT and MRI examinations are not meeting appropriateness criteria and subsequently yielding negative results, which suggests a need for tools to help primary care physicians hone their imaging decision requests, according to a recent article in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Written by Mike Bassett
CHICAGO--Targeting suspicious areas of the breast with ultrasound can reduce the need for biopsies in young women, according to the findings of two studies presented Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Radiologists may be reluctant to disclose mammography errors to patients, according to the results of a survey published in the November issue of Radiology.
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington Schools of Public Health and Pharmacy have received $16 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to lead four research projects based on cancer genomics, cancer diagnostics, breast imaging and cancer screening.
Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle and Seattle Children’s Hospital have developed low-dose pediatric PET/CT protocols for 11 patient-weight categories, according to a study published in the October issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Tuesday, September 15 2009
A study in today's online edition of the American Journal of Public Health has found that nearly 45,000 deaths annually are associated with a lack of health insurance.
Combining clinical breast exam with mammography can result in higher cancer detection rates and sensitivities as well as more false-positives, according to a study published online Aug. 31 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted West Virginia University researchers $2 million over four years for its positron emission mammography (PEM)/PET system, which images the breast and helps guide biopsy of suspicious areas.
The use of cardiac CT for low-risk chest pain patients in the emergency department--instead of the traditional standard-of-care workup--may reduce a patient's length of stay and hospital charges, according to a single-center study in the July issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Interpretation of diagnostic mammography varies across facilities; and the failure to adjust for patient characteristics when comparing facility performance could lead to erroneous conclusions, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
For long-z-axis whole-chest 64-multidetector CT of emergency department patients with nonspecific chest pain, the use of prospective ECG triggering may result in substantially lower patient radiation doses and better coronary artery image quality than is achieved with retrospective ECG gating, according to a study in the June issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Using cardiac CT in the emergency department to diagnose low-risk patients with chest pain is 44 percent less expensive than the standard of care and can decrease the length of stay up to 20 hours, according to a study presented today in Boston at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society.
University of Washington researchers reported that they have developed a new kind of microscope to visualize cells in 3D, an advancement that could bring progress to the field of early cancer detection.
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