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Image: The Invenia automated breast ultrasound system (ABUS) provides a more enhanced patient experience and effective diagnosis than mammography alone in women with dense breasts (Photo courtesy of GE Healthcare).

Automated Breast Ultrasound System Receives Approval for Screening Women with Dense Breasts

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new breast imaging technology, an automated breast ultrasound system, which is designed to help identify 35.7% more tumors in women with dense breasts than mammograms alone.   More...
09 Jun 2014

Enhanced PET Imaging Radiotracers Designed for Better Tracking of Disease

Scientists have developed a direct approach for making single enantiomer positron emission tomography tracers.  More...
09 Jun 2014

X-Ray Sector Expected to Reach USD 4.23 Billion in 2018

The world market for X-ray systems will grow from USD 3.6 billion to 4.23 billion in 2018, according to a report by healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.   More...
09 Jun 2014
Image: Dr. Ravi Menon, an imaging scientist at Western University’s Robarts Research Institute, used quantitative susceptibility MRI to show and measure damage in specific areas of the brain, which the study showed to be common to all MS and clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) patients (Photo courtesy of Western University).

Quantitative Susceptibility MR Imaging Developed to Monitor Multiple Sclerosis

Canadian imaging investigators have developed a better way to monitor the progression of multiple sclerosis at its earliest stages.   More...
05 Jun 2014
Image: Dr. Kong and others demonstrated that their fastener molecule readily inserted itself into the membrane of pre-made liposomes. Gadolinium stably associated with the modified nanoparticles in solution, and experiments in animal models showed that these nanoparticles produced clear diagnostic images (Photo courtesy of Janet Sinn-Hanlon, DesignGroup@VetMed, University of Illinois).

“Fastener” Molecules Enhance MRI Contrast Agents

Biomedical scientists have increased the effectiveness of specific contrast agents that are frequently used for imaging blood vessels and internal bleeding by linking them with nanoparticles.  More...
04 Jun 2014

MRI Identifies Early Breast Cancer in At-Risk Survivors of Childhood Hodgkin Lymphoma

MRI has been shown to identify invasive breast tumors at very early stages, when cure rates are expected to be excellent, according to recent findings of the largest clinical study ever done to evaluate breast cancer screening of female survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.   More...
04 Jun 2014
Image: The Vortx Rx histotripsy machine (Photo courtesy of HistoSonics).

Histotripsy System Developed to Treat Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

New technology is providing the surgeon with tools to plan and deliver histotripsy, a non-thermal therapy for the treatment of benign prostate hyperplasia, a noncancerous enlargement of the prostate.  More...
03 Jun 2014
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