Copyright 2008 Medical News Today Latest MRI / PET / Ultrasound News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/mri-pet/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/114088.php ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - The group from Innsbruck, Austria, who has considerable experience with transurethral injection of autologous myo- and fibroblasts, presented their two-year follow up data on 112 women with stress or mixed urinary incontinence who underwent the procedure. Small skeletal muscle biopsies were harvested from the upper arm and grown in culture. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113998.php Acoustic waves play many everyday roles - from communication between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves in materials, with nearly atomic-scale wavelengths, promise to be useful probes of nanostructures such as LED lights. However, detecting them isn't so easy. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113808.php Measuring calcium deposits in the heart's arteries can help predict overall death risk in American adults, even when they are elderly, according to a new study published in the July issue of Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Matthew J. Budoff, M.D. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113773.php Western Infirmary, part of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in Scotland, has installed the first UK ACUSON S2000 ultrasound system from Siemens. It joins an existing Siemens Antares ultrasound system and will be used for abdominal, thyroid, testicular and renal transplant imaging. The system delivers enhanced imaging quality and is ergonomically designed for ease of use. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113742.php GE Healthcare, the US$17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company (GE), is working with medical leaders in the Olympic Movement to advance the use of innovative medical imaging technologies to provide insight into athlete health, as well as benefits for the general public. The company will supply a broad array of medical technologies, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound and electrocardiogram (ECG) to the Olympic Village General Hospital. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113691.php The July issue if the American Journal of Roentgenology marks the official debut of new editor-in-chief, Thomas H. Berquist, MD of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Jacksonville, FL. Beginning with this issue, Dr. Berquist has created a new level of editors for the AJR. These section editors are charged with a specific topic or specialty within radiology and will solicit and review manuscripts in their specified field. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113677.php A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Bolizsar Janko provides an overview of research into one of the few remaining unsolved problems of quantum mechanics. More than a century ago, at the dawn of modern quantum mechanics, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Neils Bohr predicted so-called "quantum jumps. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113672.php EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:EPIX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel therapeutics through the use of its proprietary and highly efficient in silico drug discovery platform, announced today that the New Drug Application (NDA) for its novel blood pool magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) agent, Vasovist (gadofosveset trisodium) was resubmitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 30, 2008. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113575.php ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - There is increasing interest in the development of curricula for urologic training from the medical student level through to post-graduate education. Ultrasound guided therapies are likely to become more important in the management of patients with urologic disease. Therefore, providing our residents adequate training in this diagnostic and potentially therapeutic modality is important. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113590.php Applisonix LTD (TASE: APLS), a developer of innovative ultrasound based solutions for the aesthetic market, announced that the test conducted using its hair removal prototype achieved, following an initial treatment, average hair reduction of 38%, which positions its efficacy within the top professional long-term hair removal solutions. Applisonix' co-CEOs, Mr. Alon Goren and Mr. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113553.php UroToday.com - A study by Dr. E.A.M. Kuijper et al. from the Netherlands was performed to establish ultrasonographically measured normative data for testicular volumes in boys from newborn to 6 years of age. They evaluated a total of 344 boys from different ethnic backgrounds. The same ultrasound machine was utilized for all the boys. Testicular volume was calculated using length x width x height x (pi/6). Unfortunately the same ultrasonographer was not utilized for all the children. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113396.php Two newspapers on Sunday published articles on issues related to the use of CT heart scans and consulting payments to physicians from medical device companies. Summaries appear below. CT heart scans: The Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113480.php Susan Wolf, J.D., professor and chair of the University of Minnesota's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, & the Life Sciences, led a multidisciplinary team of national experts to develop the first major guidelines on managing incidental findings (IF) in human subjects research which have just been published. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113378.php ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - There is increasing interest in the development of curricula for urologic training from the medical student level through to post-graduate education. Ultrasound guided therapies are likely to become more important in the management of patients with urologic disease. Therefore, providing our residents adequate training in this diagnostic and potentially therapeutic modality is important. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113364.php A researcher at the University of Virginia Health System, Chengbo Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor of Radiology, has received the prestigious W.S. Moore Young Investigator Award for Clinical Science from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). Wang was chosen for his research in developing a novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that for the first time ever identified microscopic structural damages deep in the lungs of patients with asthma. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113072.php New research from Harvard University neuroscientists has pinpointed exactly how neural activity boosts blood flow to the brain. The finding has important implications for our understanding of common brain imaging techniques such as fMRI, which uses blood flow in the brain as a proxy for neural activity. The research is described in the June 26 issue of the journal Neuron. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113164.php USHIFU, LLC, the exclusive distributor of the minimally invasive Sonablate(R) 500 for prostate cancer treatment in North and South America, announced that the June 16, 2008 edition of ABC News NIGHTLINE featured a segment on high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for treating prostate cancer outside of the United States using the Sonablate(R) 500. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112819.php Although annual mammograms for many years have been the "simple prescription" for women concerned about breast cancer, physicians are now increasingly recommending that women at higher risk for the disease receive other tests, such as an MRI or ultrasound, which are potentially more sensitive forms of screening, the Wall Street Journal reports. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112853.php Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. It has recently installed a magnetic navigation catheter lab at Royal Brompton Hospital combining the advanced technologies of a Siemens AXIOM Artis dFC angiography system, a Niobe™ Magnetic Guidance System with Navigant™ and an Odyssey network system from Stereotaxis. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112794.php ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Dr. Frank Burks and colleagues report a feasibly study of imaging with the use of a C-Arm Cone-Beam Computed Tomography. The technology potentially affords sectional imaging in the intra-operative setting using a mobile C-arm with a 190 degree automated orbital rotation. Investigators report their experience with ex-vivo imaging of a porcine kidney (n=2). Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112781.php Cardiac CT and MRI allow experts to see inside the heart and vessels and structures in detail. In addition to constructing a large heart imaging center at the UK Gill Heart Institute, the University of Kentucky is offering more patients access to this technology through a new cardiac CT service that begins in a few days at Rockcastle Hospital in Mount Vernon, in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112790.php ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Dr. Gill discussed imaging advances for urologic oncology. His focus was how to use pre-operative imaging to facilitate surgeons' abilities to improve surgical outcomes. Augmented reality (AR) allows precise real-time identification of the 3-D location of various anatomical structures that are typically invisible at surgery. This concept has been applied to neurosurgery for some time. The first step is mapping of the structures with 3-D modeling. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112574.php Only indications of positive associations / No studies on the German health care setting available International studies indicate that there is an association between examiner qualifications and device quality on the one hand, and detection rates of ultrasound screening tests in pregnancy on the other. However, it is unclear which minimum preconditions must be fulfilled in order to achieve sufficiently high detection rates for major foetal abnormalities. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112553.php An automated system for measuring brain tissue with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help physicians more accurately diagnose Alzheimer's disease at an earlier stage according to a new study published in the July issue of the journal Radiology. In Alzheimer's disease, nerve cell death and tissue loss cause all areas of the brain, especially the hippocampus region, to shrink.