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Women’s Healthcare and Oncology Care Cycles, Philips Healthcare +  Read Women’s health: an introduction L. Bogdanoff, S. Suryanarayanan and E. Benedict The Philips Women’s Health Care Cycle program addresses the specific needs of women’s health, encompassing the whole continuum of care from prevention, screening and diagnosis to treatment, management and surveillance. The program focuses on breast cancer, heart disease, and gynecology. + Read article Digital mammography, from planar to tomographic imaging A. Karellas, S. Vedantham and J. Lewin Digital mammography offers better soft tissue contrast than screen-film techniques, with better imaging of dense breasts and more consistent image quality. It can show subtle anatomic details and provides a platform for researching imaging techniques. + Read article High resolution MR breast imaging G.S Karczmar, G.M. Newstead, M. Medved, A.M. Wood, H. Abe and F.I. Olopade High Spectral and Spatial resolution (HiSS) MR imaging has been developed by the University of Chicago and Philips Healthcare to improve anatomical and functional breast images. It provides an image quality equal to that of conventional anatomic images but with additional information on tissue composition and physiology. + Read article Enhanced MR breast imaging G.M. Newstead MRI has the potential to improve the detection of breast cancer at an early stage, when it is relatively easy to cure, and can also reduce the number of percutaneous biopsies. This article describes the University of Chicago Medical Center’s pioneering work in this field. + Read article MRI-guided near-infrared spectroscopy of breast tumors C.M. Carpenter, S. Jiang, S. Srinivasan, B.W. Pogue and K.D. Paulsen This article describes the introduction of the near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) used within the breast coil of a 3T Achieva MR scanner for dedicated spectroscopic characterization of breast cancers. + Read article Nationwide breast cancer screening in the Netherlands A. Den Heeten and M. Broeders The Dutch government provides a free nationwide breast cancer screening service. The analogue mammography units are currently being replaced by digital systems, linked to a central archive. The project is being supervised by Philips, with Philips iSite PACS as the nationwide image management system. + Read article The role of cardiac MRI in the diagnosis of women’s cardiovascular disease S.D. Flamm, R.M. Setser, A.Y. Chang and M.S. Kotys Cardiac magnetic resonance (MRI) may hold the complete spectrum of tools necessary for diagnosis of both asymptomatic and symptomatic women with CVD. Clinical availability and cardiac MR technique developments have the potential to meet women’s CVD diagnostic needs. + Read article 3D ultrasound in neoadjuvant therapy of breast tumors W.P Smith In neoadjuvant therapy a needle biopsy is performed and the tumor is left in situ as a gauge for assessing the success of therapy. Accurate measurement of the tumor is critical, and is achieved using a Philips iU22 ultrasound system with the new VL13-5 3D linear array transducer. + Read article Early detection of ovarian cancer with contrast enhanced transvaginal sonography A.C. Fleischer, A.P. Lyshchik, H.W. Jones III and D.A. Fishman Contrast enhanced transvaginal sonography (CETVS) has the potential to detect early ovarian cancer and to distinguish benign from malignant ovarian masses. + Read article INTERMEZZO + Read article
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