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March 11, 2009 - Veran Medical Technologies, a developer of medical devices that enable earlier detection and minimally invasive treatment of lung cancer, will features its IG4 Plug-N-Play Delivery System at SIR 2009.

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March 11, 2009 – Kimberly-Clark Health Care is hosting a variety of educational opportunities for physicians and caregivers on the latest techniques in enteral feeding tube placement, at the annual Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) meeting, March 7 -12 in San Diego, CA.

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March 11, 2009 - Infrahealth Group of companies, a health care software and services provider, said its patent-pending solution, Infrahealth Insurance Verification and Eligibility System (IVES) in available.

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March 11, 2009 - One of the leading cancer centers in the Middle East has acquired two advanced radiotherapy devices from Varian Medical Systems equipped with RapidArc technology for fast and precise treatments.

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March 11, 2009 - Navilyst Medical is highlighting recently released products that included PICC Convenience Kitting, Xcela Power Injectable Port catheter for long-term delivery of fluids and medications including chemotherapy, and the EZ Huber Safety Infusion Set, which offers a dual-action safety mechanism designed to reduce the risk of bloodborne pathogen exposure.

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March 11, 2009 – When CT Laser Mammography (CTLM) is used as an adjunct to mammography in heterogeneously and extremely dense breasts, the sensitivity increases significantly, according to results from a study presented at the annual European Congress of Radiology (ECR 2009), March 6-10, in Vienna, Austria.

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March 11, 2009 - CIVCO Medical Solutions and Ascension Technology Corp. is showing a new biopsy needle localization and guidance system for minimally invasive medical procedures and giving demonstrations of the system at SIR 2009 in San Diego, CA, March 7 – 12, 2009.

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March 10, 2009 – The Medical Imaging Technology Alliance said today that a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Florida Health Center and Massachusetts General Hospital demonstrates that using appropriateness criteria to help curb growth rates in advanced imaging utilization, according to a study set for publication in an upcoming issue of Radiology.

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March 10, 2009 - Today, the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) published a Guidelines for the Interpretation and Reporting of Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography report, which will be printed in the March/April issue of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.

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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

There is a lot of talk about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and the $19 billion earmarked for IT incentives, but little has been said about how it will impact radiology and radiation oncology IT. One of the leading barriers to faster EHR adoption is cost, a factor the new bill aims to address by injecting the necessary revenue to build an EHR highway.

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Feature | Amy Ballard, MEd, director of research, Arkansas Urology

It is not uncommon for a woman to go in for a mammogram and leave with inconclusive results. This event is usually followed by a breast ultrasound scan, and if that exam renders more inconclusive results, the doctor may recommend a breast MRI.

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Feature | Amy Lillard

Mammography is the one breast cancer screening test proven to reduce mortality, yet on many occasions, it still does not capture the full picture. Detection using the high sensitivity of breast-MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is very promising, yet it often casts too wide a net.

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Feature | By Sharron Finlay, regional manager, Bea

The outpatient-imaging sector has been consolidating as a result of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which decreased reimbursement for several types of imaging exams. Now, hospitals are absorbing struggling outpatient centers, and as the entities merge, a unified interface is required between the outpatient centers and their affiliate hospitals.

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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

The clinical adoption of 64-slice CT equipment has spiked over the last two years due, in large part, to an aggressive shift of cardiac procedures to computer tomographic angiography (CTA) and MR angiography.

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Feature | Nick Obradovich

It’s no secret many clinicians have predicted coronary CT angiography (CCTA) would replace invasive angiography for the detection of coronary artery disease for low- and medium-risk patients.

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Feature | Travis Chong, market analyst, Frost & Su

Could “mCT” be the new moniker for molecular imaging as manufacturers try to reinvent the molecular imaging market?

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March 10, 2009 – Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital, an 80-bed community hospital in El Dorado, KS, recently installed a Siemens' MAMMOMAT NovationDR, marking the 1,000th installation of the full-field digital mammography system for screening, diagnostics and biopsy applications.

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March 10, 2009 - Researchers have found that over a 10-year period radiologic exams on pregnant women have more than doubled, according to a study published in the online edition of Radiology.

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March 10, 2009 – Vidacare is showing its FDA-cleared and CE-marked OnControl Aspiration and Biopsy Systems for bone marrow at the SIR 2009 annual meeting, and said it will be available in the summer of 2009.

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