Samantree Medical SA has published clinical data demonstrating a significant reduction in re-operations in breast-conserving surgery using its novel ultra-fast confocal microscopy technology. The study on its medical imaging platform, the Histolog scanner, has just been published in The Breast.
Oncores Medical Pty Ltd. reported positive data from its first in-cavity trial of its quantitative micro-elastography (QME) imaging system, a hand-held imaging tool that helps surgeons differentiate between cancerous and healthy breast tissue at the point of surgery.
Diagnostic Medical Systems Group SA (DMD) is selling its entire stake in the share capital of Hybrigenics SAS, a biotech company listed on the Paris Euronext Stock Exchange since 2007. This sale of 116,911,328 shares, representing 43.41% of Gard, France-based Hybrigenics’ share capital, will allow DMS Group to refocus on its core imaging business. “We will strengthen our free cash in order to ramp the launch of new technology in medical imaging,” Samuel Sancerni, CEO of Diagnostic Medical Systems, told BioWorld.
GE Healthcare has introduced an all-digital PET/CT System featuring a new category of digital BGO (crystal-based gamma ray detection) employing a smaller crystal size to deliver greater spatial resolution than other digital scanners. Pitched at the European Association of Nuclear Medicine’s annual meeting in Barcelona on Oct. 16, Omni Legend was designed to accelerate scan times and has demonstrated, according to GE Healthcare global chief marketing officer Sonia Sahney, “impressive small lesion detectability.”
Cascination AG reported the first thermal ablation of liver tumors to be performed in France using its CT-guided stereotactic planning and navigation system, CAS-One IR. The technology was used at Dijon Bourgogne University Hospital, where a dozen procedures have been carried out in the Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiology.
Synaptive Medical Inc. and Panaxium SAS have inked a deal to bring high-resolution, real-time, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted cortical mapping to neurosurgeons. Under the collaboration, Synaptive’s Modus V robotic exoscope technology will be integrated with Panaxium’s ultra-flexible iontronic electrocorticography (ECoG) platform.
In an expansion that will surely have other companies wondering why they didn’t move on the opportunity first, Icad Inc. partnered with Solis Mammography to identify cardiovascular risk based on incidental information commonly found in mammograms—and generally ignored.
A new ultrasound-based technique has been developed to overcome the shortcomings of conventional X-ray mammography in screening younger women whose breast density is high.
Fujifilm Healthcare Europe received the European CE mark for its next-generation therapeutic linear array ultrasound endoscope, the EG-740UT, designed for complex diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound procedures.
