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1. Swedish Covenant Hospital chooses Barco display systems to become first in downtown Chicago to offer 3D mammography

   ... population of women who need or desire a higher-level breast screening exam. Swedish Covenant clinicians travelled the country to ... display enhance the clarity of breast details in high-risk women with a single exam, as well as providing advanced imaging for ...

   egodt - 2013-05-30 15:18

2. Molecular Breast Imaging: When to Use It

   There is good news and bad news with breast cancer. While incidence rates have decreased by 2 percent per year between 1999 ... Breast Imaging—is now ready for imaging high-risk women. Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI) brings the advantage of ...

   chunter - 2013-05-29 11:12

3. The Enterprise: Why Screen?

   ... artery calcium (CAC) scoring with CT and/or CCTA in the high-risk population has seen renewed interest. Last year, a Texas initiative ... measures. For example, among women with newly detected breast tumors, the ratio of local tumors to more advanced tumors reportedly ...

   mrivera - 2013-05-29 10:21

4. ARRS: Screening breast ultrasound boosts cancer detection

   ... Mammographically occult cancer detected at screening breast US, 4-mm infiltrating DCIS arrow) in the right breast. ... linked with the detection of an additional 3.4 cancers or high-risk lesions per 1,000 women screened, according to research presented ...

   lfratt - 2013-04-19 13:38

5. The end of one-size-fits-all screening mammography may be near

   ... approach that will require much closer collaboration between breast imagers and clinicians, according to a review and accompanying editorial ... by a high level of interoperator variability. High-risk screening and MRI have been demonstrated to be superior to ...

   lfratt - 2013-04-10 08:51

6. Ultrasound's Complementary Role in Breast Imaging

   Breast ultrasound is making its mark - namely in characterizing palpable and ... is ongoing as to breast ultrasound's role in boosting breast cancer detection rates. Current indications for breast ultrasound studies ... of breast cancer, it is not perfect, especially in specific high-risk population of women. Ultrasound is capable of finding malignancies ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-03-29 09:27

7. Q&A: Breast MRI Shows Its Strength

   ... more than 200,000 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 40,000 will die from the disease. While x-ray-based ... of breast MRI as a supplement to mammography, especially for high-risk women? A: To find more cancer, and presumably if you find ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-03-29 09:25

8. The Next Horizon: Radiology's Crystal Ball

   ... of interest. CAD systems will continue to evolve beyond breast and lung systems and help radiologists navigate through volumes of data ... management, and may enable physicians to detect patients at high-risk, pinpoint tumors at their earliest stages and prescribe ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-03-26 09:04

9. Breast Imaging Workflow: Imaging and IT Bring Better Diagnosis

   ... growing awareness of the importance of early detection for breast cancer and surging interest in digital mammography based on its ... installed MRI for staging new cancers and to follow up on high-risk patients, Murphy says. Because all patients have a pressing medical ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-03-25 09:33

10. CAD Makes its Mark on Diagnosis

    ... radiologists as they analyze images to detect cancers of the breast, lung and colon. A CAD algorithm highlights and marks suspicious ... for more than a year and currently examines chest films of high-risk patients - factory workers, smokers, secondhand smokers and asbestos ...

    trimedstaff - 2013-03-18 13:50

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