MRI shows brain changes prior to MCI diagnosis: the Dartmouth group's research is aimed at broadening the use of magnetic resonance imaging.
PHILADELPHIA -- Magnetic resonance imaging has the potential for detecting very early brain changes related to memory impairment, Andrew J. Saykin, Psy.D., reported at the Ninth International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, presented by the Alzheimer's Association. New data from the longitudinal Dartmouth Memory and...

Non-magnetic interconnect product line available from Hypertronics.
Hypertronics Corp. has released a non-magnetic interconnect product line featuring contact kits and cable assemblies for the medical imaging industry. The company's new line, ClearImage, is comprised of non-magnetic contacts based on the Hypertac Technology and cable assemblies designed specifically for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications for high-definition interconnections...

Imaging preauthorization advised under Medicare.
The Government Accountability Office is urging Congress to require Medicare to adopt prior authorization procedures for outpatient imaging services, saying that the federal health program's current approach has allowed costs to balloon. According to the GAO, from 2000 to 2006, Medicare Part B spending on imaging services...

Economic Crisis Impacts US Diagnostic Imaging Systems Market.
Slowing economy affecting MRI, CT, and nuclear medicine systems, according to Millennium Research Group WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Millennium Research Group's (MRG's) US Markets for Diagnostic Imaging Systems 2009 report and its US Imaging Marketrack(TM) service, a combination of factors involving the current...

Video: Medical Imaging Equipment OEMs Can Achieve Faster, More Accurate Results with TI's Portfolio of Embedded Processors and Analog Products.
DALLAS and MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (TI) today announced a portfolio of more than 15 dedicated embedded processors which enable faster, more accurate results for doctors and clinicians while empowering imaging equipment manufacturers to develop new modalities or to make existing products smaller and more...

Amag Pharmaceuticals Gets Fast Track Designation for Ferumoxytol.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-26 August 2008-Amag Pharmaceuticals Gets Fast Track Designation for Ferumoxytol(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Amag Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to ferumoxytol for its development as a diagnostic agent for Vascular-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging...

GE Healthcare MRI System Gets ecomagination Mark.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-15 August 2008-GE Healthcare MRI System Gets ecomagination Mark(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, announced its Signa HDe 1.5T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system as the first medical imaging product from GE Healthcare to be recognized as an ecomagination...

Right ventricular lipoma/Sag ventrikul lipomu.
Previously healthy 11-year-old male was noted to have a heart murmur during routine physical examination. Transthoracic echocardiogram showed a mass in size of 2x3 cm in the interventricular septum lining toward the right ventricular outflow tract (Fig. 1). Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated a high signal intensity of...

MRI increases mastectomy in early breast cancer.
Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging may be a factor in the rising rate of mastectomy in women with early-stage breast cancer, a study suggests. Investigators reviewed 5,596 stage 0-II breast cancers in 5,463 women who underwent surgery for the malignancy between 1997 and 2006 at the Mayo Clinic...

Auditory brainstem response threshold differences in patients with vestibular schwannoma: a new diagnostic index.
Abstract Auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing is less sensitive in detecting small vestibular schwannomas than medium-size tumors. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more sensitive than ABR alone for small and large tumors, but it carries with it increased cost and issues of unavailability and patient discomfort. We...