The FDA Advisory Panel voted (10 to one) in favor of Dune Medical Device's MarginProbe System for use in breast cancer surgery, as an adjunct to current standard methods of intraoperative surgical margin assessment.

Nearly three years after the state of Connecticut enacted the first breast density notification legislation in the U.S., an analysis of the performance of screening breast ultrasound revealed the modality helped detect small, mammographically occult cancers, according to a study published online June 21 in Radiology. However, overall positive predictive value of screening ultrasound was low and fewer than 20 percent of eligible women opted for the screening exam.

Royal Philips Electronics has embarked on a five-year joint research and development program with the Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, the Vavilov State Optical Institute and the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute in the field of medical imaging technologies.

When we conceived of the Health Imaging Best of Fridays, the plan was to recap the top news of the week and offer a bit of insightful analysis. This morning, however, news seems to be coming out in firehose fashion.

A lung screening and surveillance task force, established by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and led by medical professionals from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, strongly recommended new guidelines for lung cancer screening in the June 20 online edition of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.

The Endocrine Society has issued a new set of clinical guidelines urging some men to get bone density scans to check for osteoporosis. The updated clinical practice guideline was published in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Carestream Health in Rochester, N.Y., has started shipping its DRX-Revolution mobile x-ray system.

GE Healthcare unveiled a program for low-dose CT imaging called GE Blueprint during an announcement June 21 at North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System.