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Posts Tagged ‘Ultrasound’
QT Ultrasound Launches Imaging Centres
Five years ago, Delphinus announced it had received 510(k) clearance from the FDA and was able to begin marketing its whole breast […]
Tomosynthesis vs Ultrasound in Dense Breasts
A research group based at the University of Genoa in Italy is known by its acronym ASTOUND, which stands for Adjunct […]
Looking for a Polar Bear in a Snowstorm
Fifteen years ago, Nancy Cappello’s annual screening mammogram was found to be normal, just as had been reported for the […]
False Positives and False Negatives
There are two statistical measures to consider when the success of a screening programme is measured: sensitivity and specificity. In any […]
Optimising Workflow in Breast Screening
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota have just published a paper in the British Journal of Radiology entitled “Masses in […]
A Day to Celebrate
Yesterday, 8 November 2018, marked the 123rd anniversary of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. It has been […]
It’s All About Speed
One of the challenges when imaging the breast is to distinguish benign lesions from those that are malignant. With ultrasound, […]
POCUS Gathers Momentum
In the past week two companies – Hologic from the USA and Healcerion from South Korea – have announced FDA […]
Making a Pact
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and Washington University in St Louis have just published a paper in Nature Communications in […]