Medical Imaging Business Week

Emageon - Emageon signs new agreement with MidMichigan Health

Acceletronics - Acceletronics, Cablon sell TheraView systems for image guided radiotherapy verification

Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, U.K. - Breast lesion classification system for magnetic resonance screening has been evaluated

Aichi Medical University, Japan - New gastric carcinomas prevented by eradicating Helicobacter pylori after endoscopic resection

ARUP Institute for Clinical & Experimental Pathology, U.S. - Inflammation role in coronary artery disease pathogenesis may be deciphered with cytokine profiles

Athens Medical School, Greece - New findings from Greece, folsom@epi and Turkey in the area of heart disease detailed

Awards - Siemens Medical Solutions awarded its third IBA International Stevie Award for new CT system

Baskent University, Turkey - Researchers from Turkey, Denmark and the United Kingdom report details of new studies and findings in the area of polycystic ovarian syndrome

Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, U.S. - Supratentorial low-grade glioma resectability analyzed

Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, U.S. - Premenopausal oral contraceptive use may protect against heart disease later in life

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. - Immunochromatographic device to measure anti-anthrax protective antigen IgG is developed

Central Hospital Karlstad, Karlstad, Sweden - Anterior site should be omitted when TE recordings of mitral annulus are used

Charite University of Medicine, Germany - Researchers from Germany, the United States and Finland publish new studies and findings in the area of brain cancer

Chinese Academy of Medical Science, People's Republic of China - Research from the People's Republic of China, Germany and Belgium in diagnostics provides new insights

Chinese University of Hong Kong, People's Republic of China - Researchers' findings from the People's Republic of China, Italy and Germany advance medical devices research

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, U.S. - Diabetes, male gender, and prior interventional procedure are high atheroma volume predictors

Cleveland Clinic, U.S. - Capsule endoscopy diagnostic accuracy for Crohn disease is reviewed

Clinique et fondation des Grangettes, Switzerland - New findings from Switzerland, the United States and Turkey in the area of diagnostics detailed

Columbia University, U.S. - Real-time 3D dobutamine contrast stress echocardiography is feasible, improves image quality

Compressus - Compressus to add 3D capabilities to MEDxConnect Diagnostic Workstation

Curtin University of Technology, Australia - Surgical training for operating an angled laparoscope simulated in a virtual environment

Dept. of Medicine, Nigeria - Studies from Nigeria and Japan describe new findings in hypertension research

Duke University, U.S. - Myocardial infarct size is measurable with MRI using 0.1-0.2 mmol/kg contrast dose

Ege University Medical Faculty, Turkey - Reports from Turkey, Canada and Poland advance knowledge in imaging research

Emageon - Emageon signs enhanced enterprise imaging agreement with Sisters of Mercy Health System

ExperTox - Silicone breast implants may lead to higher serum platinum concentrations

Federico II University, Italy - Diastolic function reserve in CAD assessed by low-dose dobutamine stress echo gives additive data

German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany - Perfusion of skeletal muscle can be evaluated by ultrasonography

Gunma University, Japan - Studies from Japan and the New Zealand add new findings to heart attack body of knowledge

Harvard University, U.S. - Pulse-inversion US imaging can provide superior assessment of perfusion

Hopital La Timone, Marseille, France - Colon cancer patients with isolated adrenal metastasis can be offered laparoscopic surgery

Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France - Cancer patients with acute respiratory failure diagnostic methods reviewed

Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada - Pulmonary lesions in children can be safely assessed with U.S.-guided biopsies

Huazhong University of Science & Technology, People's Republic of China - Researchers' data from the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and United States advance lymphoma research

Imagin Molecular - Imagin Molecular inks agreement to use Cadenza software for imaging center business

Imperial College London, U.K. - Women may have higher risk of stroke mortality owing to left ventricular hypertrophy

Indiana University, U.S. - Basal cell hyperplasia severity differs in reflux versus eosinophilic esophagitis

Innsbruck University, Austria - Researchers' findings from Austria and Italy advance imaging research

Johns Hopkins University, U.S. - Findings from the United States in imaging provide new insights

Johns Hopkins University, U.S. - Reports from the United States, Italy and Taiwan advance knowledge in hepatocellular carcinoma research

Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan - Right ventricular systolic dysfunction is common in scleroderma

King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia - Data from the Saudi Arabia and Germany advance knowledge in cardiology research

Lawson Health Research Institute, Canada - Newborns' cerebral energy dysfunction may be detected with a NIRS technique

Loyola University, U.S. - New findings in obesity described from the United States, United Kingdom and Germany

Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden - EASI-derived 12-lead electrocardiographic diagnoses are comparable to those from standard ECGs

Mater Hospital, Sydney, Australia - Brain metastases could be detected during melanoma staging by MRI

Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria - Postliver transplant biliary strictures treated with endoscopy have excellent outcomes

Medical University of South Carolina, U.S. - Findings from the United States and France describe new data in lung cancer research

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, U.S. - Oral cancer metastases detected by F-18-FDG PET/CT

Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, U.S. - Researchers from the United States and Brazil provide details of new studies and findings in the area of obesity

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, U.S. - Recent findings from the United States, France and South Korea illuminate research in proteins

Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, U.K. - Macular profiles of diabetic retinopathy patients may predict response to therapy

Mt. Vernon Hospital, Northwood, U.K. - Breast cancer clinicopathologic response predicted by chemotherapy at MR imaging

National Taiwan University, U.S. - New findings from the United States in the area of obesity described

Omiya Medical Center, Saitama, Japan - Research from Japan, the People's Republic of China and the United States in angiology provides new insights

Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey - Metformin increases pregnancy rate in infertile women after laparoscopic ovarian drilling

Osaka City University, Japan - Coronary artery disease aortic stiffening alters coronary flow

Ospedale Multimedica, Italy - Findings from Italy and the United States advance knowledge in cardiology research

Otto Von Guericke University, Germany - Researchers' data from Germany, Japan and the United States advance colon cancer research