Medical Imaging Business Week

Blackwell Publishing, Inc. - Determining prognosis in patients with chest pain now easier and more accurate

Clarient, Inc. - Diagnostics companies to negotiate a distribution, development agreement

Schick Technologies, Inc. - Claims resolved in civil action by U.S. SEC, imaging systems company reports

SonoSite, Inc. - Company begins customer shipments of hand-held ultrasound imaging system

Academy Science Czech Republic, Prague - CD34 microbeads used as magnetic cell label for in vivo cell visualization

Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans - Laparoscopic hand-assisted versus open transhiatal esophagectomy compared

ANEXA Corp. - Florida orthopedic services choose digital radiography systems

Applied Imaging Corp. - Deal signed with University Of Vermont for tumor cell research

Ben Gurion University of Negev, Beer Sheva - Laparoscopic management suggested for acute small bowel obstruction

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Sleep improves memory

Biophan Technologies, Inc. - Exclusive license finalized for MRI visualization technology

Box SURG, Rochester - Laparoscopic spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy detailed

CALTECH, Pasadena - Fusion activity of HIV-1 gp41 depends on interhelical interactions

Campus Bio-Medico University - Reports describe recent advances in breast cancer research

CardioDynamics - U.S. FDA clears ICG device with 12-lead ECG

Cardiogenesis Corporation - First robotically assisted TMR procedure successfully completed

Case Western Reserve University - New data illuminates research in diabetes pathogenesis

Catholic University of Korea, Seoul - Study compared ST depression pattern in treadmill tests with flow reserve

Catholic University of Louvain - Visual cortex activity during auditory substitution of vision characterized

Cedara Software Corp. - Company to market new technology for cancer assessment and treatment

Chang Gung University - Acute and long-term outcome in ostial lesions determined

Chaoyang University of Technology, Wufeng - Flavonoids isolated from Waltheria indica

Chong Qing University of Medical Science - Reports advance knowledge in liver cancer research

Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Laparoscopic radical cystectomy performed in females

Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Office-based ultrasonography suitable for diagnosis

Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Unsedated endoscopy with novel esophagoscope well-tolerated and accurate

Columbia University - X-ray exposure during CT colonoscopy doesn't significantly raise cancer risks

Concord Repatriat General Hospital, NSW - Studies advance knowledge in angiology research

Duke University, Durham - Reports advance knowledge in imaging research

Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk - Endoscopic treatment of upper tract transitional cell carcinoma evaluated

Elbit Medical Imaging, Ltd. - Company announces negotiations on potential business combination with Elscint

Emory University of Hospital, Atlanta - CT and MR imaging findings of selective neck dissection revealed

Epidemiology Unit, Florence - Effect of mammography screening programs on CIS incidence in Italy studied

Erasmus University, Rotterdam - Hospital case volume impacted short-term outcome after laparoscopic operation

eResearchTechnology, Inc. - Japan-based drug developer awards $1.6 million to collect cardiac safety data

Federal University of Sao Paulo - ECG indices do not adequately distinguish MI size in rats

Fischer Imaging Corp. - Company to sell digital mammography intellectual property to Hologic for $32M

Fox Paine & Co., LLC - Equity firm reaches definitive agreement to sell ACMI to Gyrus Group

Fujita Health University, Aichi - Alzheimer disease studied, PET imaging using beta-amyloid probe described

Fukui University - Researchers' findings advance proteomics research

GATA Haydarpasa Teaching Hospital, Istanbul - Laparoscopic surgery superior to open surgical treatment

GE Healthcare - New PET/CT scanner launched

German Heart Institute, Berlin - Recent studies add new data to imaging research

Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara - High-resolution CT detects activity of suspected smear negative pulmonary TB

Heart and Diabetes Center, Bad Oeynhausen - Attenuation-corrected SPECT images accurately represent myocardial perfusion

Heidelberg University Hospital - Dental restoration materials do not affect MRI quality

Hitachi Medical Systems America - AVIA workstation cardiac application and software enhancements announced

Hopital Marie-Lannelongue - Multislice CT coronary angiography suitable for stenosis detection

Hospital Author, Hong Kong - Gallbladder cancer presenting with acute cholecystitis analyzed

Information Technology - Hospital installs new system for digital imaging

Inselspital Bern - Paget disease associated with DCIS can be diagnosed via MRI

Institute of Gustave Roussy, Villejuif - New functional imaging modalities impacted radiation therapy regimen

Institute Ortoped Rizzoli, Bologna - Clinicopathologic features of dedifferentiated parosteal osteosarcoma discussed

Istanbul University - Endoscopic and radiologic interventions caused severe cholangitis

Italian National Research Council, Pisa - New findings in the area of ischemia described

Johns Hopkins University Hospital - Researchers' findings advance cardiology research

Karolinska University Hospital - Novel dopamine D₂ receptor agonist has potential as radioligand

Karolinska University Hospital of Huddinge - Economics of surgical techniques for colon cancer evaluated

Kurume University, Fukuoka - Dipyridamole-stress SAECG easily detects CAD and myocardial ischemia at bedside

Kyoto University - Researchers publish new studies and findings in the area of gastroenterology