Medical Imaging Business Week

CardioDynamics - CardioDynamics reports 21% decrease in sales

EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Thrombus program moves forward; patent granted for peptide-based contrast agents

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Kaiser medical center selects speech recognition application for medical professionals

Precision Optics Corporation, Inc. - Precision Optics Corporation announces revenues of $529,195

Viatronix, Inc. - Diagnostic imaging software company Viatronix names Jan F. Jumet, JD, chairman of board

Athens Medical School - In acute coronary syndrome, plaque temperature is elevated in nonculprit atheromatous lesions

Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Recent studies add new data to diabetes therapy research

Baskent University, Ankara - Whole-body turbo STIR MRI with panoramic table used to detect bone metastases

Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles - Coronary artery disease assessment and nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT, and MRI roles are examined

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles - Combined supine-prone quantification show improved obstructive CAD recognition

Children's Hospital & Health Center, San Diego - Scoliosis correction with flexible lateral spinal tether shows promise

Columbia University, New York - Glycemic control, blood pressure, and LDL levels are improved by telemedicine

Eberhard-Karls-University, Tubingen - Systemic atherosclerotic disease can be assessed quickly with whole-body imaging

Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam - Cardiovascular data imaging gains improved technique for center lumen line definition

European Institute of Oncology, Milan - Video-assistance used to manage malignant pleural effusion in breast carcinoma

F. Hoffmann La Roche Ltd. - MRI skeletal muscle perfusion testing with noninvasive single-voxel FAIR promising

Faronics - Deep Freeze protects the heart of Volcano Corp.'s medical devices

Flinders Medical Center, Bedford Park - New findings in the area of obesity therapy described

Guy's Hospital, London - In gynecologic laparoscopy, ProSeal and SLIPA SLAs reduce surgery time

Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem - Intravenous NDV-HUJ oncolytic virus examined in glioblastoma multiforme

Harvard University - Lower mammography surveillance is seen in elderly breast cancer survivors

Harvard University - Recent studies add new data to stroke research

Health Discovery Corp. - U.S. patent covers support vector machine use for processing data from digital mammography

Hiroshima University Hospital - Coronary artery calcium volume may best be measured by thin-slice spiral CT scanning

Hospital Calmette, Lille - Clinical heart examination during imaging can provide additive information

Iatia Limited - Iatia demonstrates proof of concept for ophthalmology company

Information Technology - Hattiesburg Clinic chooses Misys Healthcare Systems to manage processes

Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif - Efficacy of Doppler US in evaluating RF in breast cancer recurrences assessed

Institute for Applied Biotechnology in the Tropics, Gottingen - Botulinum neurotoxin types C and D detected with immunoaffinity chromatographic column test

IRCCS Neuromed, Isernia - Huntington disease foreshadowed by white matter degeneration

Johns Hopkins University - Acute, healed myocardial infarction extent was quantified by contrast-enhanced MDCT

Johns Hopkins University - Atherosclerosis risk in asymptomatic women is underestimated by Framingham equation

Johns Hopkins University - Dyssynchronous failing heart shows evidence of structural remodeling

Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznan - Ovarian cancer prediction via neural model outperforms logistic regression model

Kiniki University, Osaka - Research in diagnostics provides new insights

Klinikum Aschaffenburg - Capsule endoscopy used to evaluate gastrointestinal lymphomas

Klinikum Bayreuth - Pathology of early upper GI cancers discussed

Kumamoto University - C-11-acetate positron emission tomography used to image lung adenocarcinoma

Kumamoto University - New findings in cardiology described

Landspitali National University Hospital, Reykjavik - Incidental detection of renal cell carcinoma did not affect patient survival

Mayo Clinic - Aortic valve replacement with severe prosthesis mismatch has lower long-term survival

MDS Nordion - MDS Nordion, Molecular Insight contract for imaging pharmaceuticals for cardiac ischemia

Media Cybernetics - New InVivo Analyzer Suite 3.0 software combines applications for complete live cell imaging

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Breast lesion size was examined for association with positive biopsy prediction

Mt. Kisco Medical Group - MRI can detect breast disease missed by mammography

Netherlands Cancer Institute - Researchers provide details of new studies and findings in the area of breast cancer

Northeastern University, Boston - Prostate cancer monitoring facilitated with PSA-specific imaging contrast agent

Odense University Hospital - Research add new data to imaging body of knowledge