Cone-Beam CT faster, potentially more accurate than conventional

PhysOrg - Only the breast is exposed to radiation resulting in improved image quality and sparing the rest of the patient s body from unnecessary radiation exposure. The scan can be completed in less than one minute with a single complete rotation of the x Full story

Give yourself a break and get a bone scan

USA Weekend - Health-minded people know their numbers: cholesterol, blood pressure, T-score. Wait, what was that last one? T-score is a measure of your bone density, which helps predict how likely you are to break a bone in a situation of minimal trauma, such as More

Kenya’s election deadlock sparks violence

CBC News - Breast CT scan faster, more effective than mammogram: study A new scan may yield more detailed and faster results than mammography in screening women for breast cancer, a study suggests. Restaurant chain set to reduce trans fats The company that owns Read more

Just Another Dude

Alachua Post - He uses OpenBook, a program developed my Freedom Scientific, to scan and convert printed documents into an electronic format Jarod said that people often whistle at and pet Darth without permission. “It gives Darth mixed signals because he is More

New Microscope Peers Into Secret Lives Of Cells

Science Daily - That’s calcium, Czymmek notes. Scientists have discovered that there is a large release of calcium with every heartbeat single focal point at a time on its subject–acquiring over a quarter-million picture elements, or pixels, in a single scan Full story

TETRA Technologies, Inc. Announces 2008 Earnings Guidance

Stockhouse Canada - TETRA is an oil and gas services company, including an integrated calcium chloride and brominated products manufacturing Scan Hundreds of Sources For Financial News Categories: More

Toshiba Launches Breakthrough CT System - The AquilionONE

Medical News Today - Unlike any other CT system, the AquilionONE can scan one organ - including the heart, brain and others - in one rotation patients who come to the ER with chest pain are given multiple tests to identify the problem, including an EKG, calcium study Click here for more

Cut down on chocolates to stop kidney stones

Daily Mail - The condition is usually diagnosed with a scan. Most stones are small enough to pass out in the urine but if the stone is Kidney stones are usually made up of a salt called calcium oxalate - the more calcium and oxalate your urine contains, the Click here for more

‘Impulsivity’ gene appears to arouse alcoholism

Inside Bay Area - Bay Area researchers probing the brain for genetic factors behind alcoholism found one more piece in the complex puzzle of The researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of 19 study participants, who had an average age of 29 Full story

JAQUITTA’S JOURNEY: Read Her Blog

WSB-TV Atlanta - Wendy was diagnosed with a brain tumor twice. Doctors thought she wasn’t going to be around, but she let go and let God, she I have one more scan to do next week to prepare for radiation—I’m told it will be a slightly longer process; then I Read more

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