Cardiologists across the U.S. have been so enthralled with CT that they’ve tripled the modality’s installed base of units within cardiology practices in the past two years, according to a new report scheduled for release this month by market research firm IMV Medical Information Division.
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In the history of medical imaging turf wars, the primary battlegrounds have been in modalities such as echocardiography, musculoskeletal MRI, and nuclear cardiology. You can now add CT to the list, according to a new study that indicates CT procedure volume is spiking among nonradiologists.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 19 - CT of the chest can serve a dual purpose in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), measuring both the severity of emphysema and vertebral bone density, physicians in Japan report.
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A British study confirms the high sensitivity and specificity of PET/CT in identifying focal bony disease in patients with Hodgkin’s disease, according to research presented at the recent 2008 RSNA meeting. The research further suggests that the imaging modality can play an important role in initial staging of the disease.
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The national grassroots awareness campaign to reduce radiation dose exposure to children — especially regarding CT exams — is working, at least at two of the largest academic children’s hospitals in the U.S. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center reported that the volume of CT procedures performed by the hospitals has [...]

The higher resolution of a prototype flat-panel volume CT scanner has enabled U.S. researchers to detect changes in the bone structure of girls with anorexia nervosa, even before declines in bone mineral density are evident.
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