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April 14, 2010 - There will be greater personal interaction, exchange, and networking among attendees and exhibitors, at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine's (SIIM) 2010 Annual Meeting, June 3-6 in Minneapolis. SIIM this year will debut two new additions to the integrated learning program: "Vendor tie-in" sessions and the Shared learning community.
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April 14, 2010 - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) a $48,000 grant to hold a conference to develop research on the comparative effectiveness of positron emission tomography (PET) and other molecular imaging techniques.
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April 14, 2010 - Researchers found a new amyloid imaging agent for positron emission tomography (PET) to be efficacious in assigning patients with clinically probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) or amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
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April 9, 2010 - As breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) becomes increasingly important as a method for screening women who are at high risk for developing breast cancer, the American College of Radiology (ACR) is addressing the need for regulating the technique.
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April 9, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will no longer allow a third party review process on new radiotherapy equipment. The announcement came in a letter the FDA sent to 93 makers of radiation treatment devices, urging them to attend a workshop to address concerns about patient exposure to excess radiation from medical treatments and procedures.
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April 8, 2010 - Lung tumors have been among the most challenging radiation therapy targets because the patient's breathing causes tumors to move.
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April 7, 2010 - The lack of radiation therapy treatment African-American women receive is not responsible for the poorer survival noted among African-American patients.
April 07, 2010 
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April 7, 2010 - A dual-modality tomographic (DMT) breast scanner, developed by researchers at the University of Virginia Health System (UVA), in a pilot study pinpointed to a much finer degree than mammography, ultrasound, MRI and even a needle biopsy, the location of breast masses and more accurately distinguished between cancerous and harmless lesions.
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April 7, 2010 - A new imaging agent, used in brain positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of ?-amyloid in patients with suspected Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI), is being evaluated for use in the United States and the European Union.
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April 7, 2010 - The American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) has officially launched a new clinical study on FDG-PET/CT for the head and neck led by Val Lowe, M.D., professor of radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
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April 7, 2010 - According to statistics from the American Cancer Society, an estimated 48,000 people in New Jersey and 101,000 in New York state were diagnosed with cancer in 2009, many of which will receive some form of radiation therapy.
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April 07, 2010 
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April 6, 2010 - The three-year survival rate for patients receiving stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) was 55.8 percent, compared to the 20-35 percent two-year to three-year overall survival rate for studies reporting results from conventional radiation therapy for similar patient groups, a recent study found.
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April 6, 2010 - In order to fund a portion of the proposed deal to acquire Amicas Inc., Merge Healthcare announced it will offer $200 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due in 2015.
April 06, 2010 
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April 6, 2010 - Once healthcare reform goes into effect, radiology information systems (RIS) may be a good model for showing other departments in hospitals how to streamline workflow, indicated Christopher McCord, principal at Healthcare Growth Partners.
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April 6, 2010 - To optimize the use of its magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, Nationwide Children's Hospital is unveiling a new combined operative and diagnostic MRI suite.
April 06, 2010 
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April 6, 2010 - Helical TomoTherapy delivers continuous arc-based intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) that gives high conformality and excellent dose homogeneity for the target volume, concluded a study published online March issue of the Internal Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics.
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April 6, 2010 – An upgrade to a popular advanced visualization software suite now allows support for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. The release of version 4.4.5 of the Aquarius iNtuition server-based software provides access to images and advanced visualization through an intuitive, mobile and multitouch user interface.
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April 5, 2010 - Physicians express concern that patient access to medical imaging exams could lead to increased patient anxiety and unrealistic demands on physician time, reported a study published in the April issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
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