A new power combo consisting of adenosine stress and dual-energy CT (DECT) is delivering diagnostic accuracy equivalent to stress/rest cardiac MRI and nuclear perfusion (SPECT) for detecting perfusion defects, according to research presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) meeting in New Orleans.
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Moving to bring 3D assets in-house, Toshiba Medical Systems has inked an agreement to purchase Barco’s Advanced Visualization Imaging System (AVIS) division, which develops the company’s Voxar software.
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Employer: King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Jeddah
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Clinical research has begun to suggest that fluorine-18 (F-18) FDG-PET and contrast-enhanced breast MRI can be powerful tools for diagnosis and treatment staging in women with suspected breast malignancy. But FDG-PET for these patients is limited by its variable sensitivity — certain types of breast cancer have abnormally low FDG uptake. One solution is to [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 18 - Recent findings published in the November issue of the journal Gut suggest that there are identifiable subsets of patients with Crohn’s disease who are at risk of exposure to high levels of diagnostic radiation.
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NEW ORLEANS - Coronary CT is very effective at pinpointing which patients with acute chest pain and a low-to-intermediate risk of acute coronary syndrome do not have coronary artery disease and can safely be discharged directly from the emergency department, researchers reported at this week’s American Heart Association (AHA) annual meeting.
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