Stamford, Conn., March 11, 2014 (Booth #2239 – Hall D) – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of diagnostic imaging products and medical informatics solutions, will present its comprehensive portfolio of flat panel detectors at the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting held March 12 – 14 in New Orleans, LA..

A grant amounting to $2.8 million has been awarded to Lightpoint Medical and surgical partners of the company headquartered in Rickmansworth, England, to bolster clinical trials for intraoperative imaging systems for prostate and breast cancer.

A voxel-based comparison of F-18 fluorothymidine (FLT) PET and MR spectroscopy revealed good contrast between tumorous and healthy tissues for both methods, according to a study presented during the scientific session of the 2014 European Congress of Radiology (ECR), which concludes today at Austria Center Vienna.

PET provides more detail than perfusion-weighted MRI about glioma tumor extent and metabolic activity, according to a study published online Feb. 27 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Prenatal tobacco use adversely affects brain development by limiting a child’s total brain volume and particularly their gray matter, according to longitudinal MRI research published in the March 2014 edition of Neuropsychopharmacology.

VIENNA—Positron emission mammography (PEM) was found to have 100 sensitivity for all imaged breast tumors, according to a study being presented during the 2014 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) scientific sessions.

VIENNA—Stroke victims often lose significant motor function as a result of acute ischemic attacks. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has the potential to predict just how much of that motor function patients will likely recover over time, according to a scientific presentation at the 2014 European Congress of Radiology (ECR).

Preliminary data regarding the first known human trial involving glutamine PET for the detection of glioma showed encouraging pharmacokinetics and biodistribution, according to researchers presenting at this year’s European Congress of Radiology (ECR).