Recent guidelines seeking to reduce the use of neuroimaging tests for patients with headaches run the risk of missing or delaying the diagnosis of brain tumors, according to an article in Neurosurgery.
The market value of mammography systems in the Americas will increase from approximately $390 million in 2013 to $1.1 billion by 2020, according to business intelligence provider GBI Research, driven primarily by the uptake of 3-D systems in the United States and healthy demand for 2-D systems in Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) and Université Catholique de Louvain announced that the first patient treatment with IBA's Proton Therapy Specific Cone Beam CT (CBCT) was successfully completed at Penn Medicine's Roberts Proton Therapy Center.