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Cleveland BioLabs Submits Response To Department Of Defense Request For Proposal For Radiation Countermeasure
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineCleveland BioLabs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBLI) announced that it has submitted a response to the Request for Proposal (RFP) issued by The Department of Defense (DoD) for the advanced development, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval/licensure and delivery of Medical Radiation Countermeasure (MRC). I ...
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Fri Mar 2010
New Cardiac CT Technology Drastically Reduces Patient Radiation Exposure
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineIn a new study published in the March issue of Radiology, researchers from Columbia University and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute have determined that an imaging exam of the heart using the latest generation of CT technology exposes patients to as much as 91 percent less radiation than ...
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Some High-Risk Women Benefit From Combined Mammography And Breast MRI
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineAnnual breast cancer screening with both mammography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is likely to be a cost-effective way to improve life expectancy in women with an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a new study published in the March issue of Radiology. The findings support current ...
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Accelerated Radiation Therapy Reduces Toxicity In Patients With Advanced Head And Neck Cancers
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineUsing an accelerated, shorter course of radiation therapy for patients with advanced head and neck cancer allows doctors to reduce the amount of chemotherapy, thus reducing toxicity, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTR ...
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Embedding Images In Radiology Reports Can Speed Decision Making And Improve Patient Care
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineEmbedding clinical images to accompany findings described in a radiology text report enhances radiologists' communication with referring physicians and can improve patient care, according to a study in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology... ...
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Federal Officials Focus On Radiation Practices At Florida Clinic; Medical Scan Makers Announce New Efforts To Prevent Mistakes
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineMedicare regulations require that when patients receive some types of highly specialized cancer treatments, their radiation oncologist must be on site. But The New York Times reports that federal officials are investigating a Florida cancer clinic that billed Medicare for such treatments while the ...
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Toshiba Announces Cardiac Software Upgrades For The Aquilion One And Aquilion Premium
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineResponding to the cardiac CT market's need for superior image quality with lower radiation doses, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., has unveiled new cardiac software enhancements available now for the Aquilion® ONE and Aquilion Premium CT systems. The new cardiac CT software package is designe ...
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How To Prevent Radiation Mistakes In Cancer Patients
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineRecent media stories have reported isolated cases of cancer patients who were injured by incorrect doses from intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). Despite such reports, IMRT remains one the most powerful cancer treatments, and extensive safety measures can ensure patients receive the proper ...
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Low-Dose Radiation Exposure: NIH Takes Step To Assess Any Possible Risk
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineResearchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center are incorporating radiation dose exposure reports into the electronic medical record, an effort that they hope will lead to an accurate assessment of whether any cancer risk is associated with low-dose radiation exposure from med ...
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Nuclear Waste Threat Could Be Curbed By Hospital Scanner
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineMedical equipment used for diagnosis of patients with heart disease and cancer could be a key weapon in stopping nuclear waste seeping into the environment, according to new research... ...
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Imaging Diagnostic Systems Receives Australian TGA Approval To Market Its CTLM
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineImaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc., (OTCBB: IMDS), a pioneer in laser optical breast imaging, announced today that the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved the CT Laser Mammography (CTLM®) system for inclusion on the Australian Register o ...
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Shina Systems Receives U.S. FDA 510(k) Clearance For Its 3Di Cloud-based Medical Imaging Advanced (3D/4D) Visualization Solution
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineShina Systems announces U.S. Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its 3Di medical imaging advanced (3D/4D) visualization software that downloads over the Internet and provides a full suite of image processing and clinical analysis applications on any PC... ...
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ASTRO Commits To Six-Point Patient Protection Plan
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineThe American Society for Radiation Oncology has committed to a six-point patient protection plan that will improve safety and quality and reduce the chances of medical errors, ASTRO Board Chairman Tim R. Williams, M.D., said today... ...
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HSE Welcomes IAEA Report, UK
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineThe Health and Safety Executive has welcomed the publication of a second report into its Nuclear Directorate from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). A team of senior nuclear regulators from across the world visited the UK in October 2009 to perform a second peer review of ...
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Radiation Oncologists Push For Safety Standards
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineThe New York Times: "The leading professional organization dedicated to radiation oncology has called for enhanced safety measures in administering medical radiation, including the establishment of the nation's first central database for the reporting of errors involving linear accelerators - machi ...
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Computers Do Better Than Humans At Measuring Some Radiology Images
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineScientists have automated the measurement of a vital part of the knee in images with a computer program that performs much faster and just as reliably as humans who interpret the same images... ...
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Varian Medical Systems Accredits Royal North Shore Hospital As Australia's First Image-Guided Radiotherapy School
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineThe Radiation Oncology Department at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney has become the first in Australia to be formally accredited by Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), the world leader in radiotherapy, as a teaching facility for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT)... ...
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RSNA To Incorporate BI-RADS(R) Into RadLex(R)
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineThe Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) announced it has concluded an agreement with the American College of Radiology (ACR) to include the Breast Imaging and Data Reporting System (BI-RADS®) lexicon in RSNA's radiology lexicon, RadLex®... ...
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Combined Drug And Radiotherapy Improves Survival For Cervical Cancer Patients
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineCombining drugs and radiotherapy improves the survival chances of women receiving treatment for cervical cancer. These are the conclusions of Cochrane Researchers who carried out the most comprehensive study of the effects of combined drug and radiotherapy in cervical cancer treatment to date. Cervi ...
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Cleveland BioLabs Doses First Volunteers In Second Safety Study For CBLB502
Categorie : Radiology / Nuclear MedicineCleveland BioLabs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBLI) announced that the first healthy volunteers have been dosed in the second human safety study for CBLB502, a drug under development for the treatment of Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS). CBLB502 is being developed by Cleveland BioLabs under the U.S... ...
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