Dear AuntMinnie Member,
The International Society for Computed Tomography (ISCT) meeting opens today in San Francisco as the new incarnation of the meeting formerly known as the International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT. Although it is now independent of Stanford University, the show's format and many of the faces remain the same.
AuntMinnie.com editors are on hand to report for our CT Digital Community. One of the first presentations concerns a new CT data reconstruction algorithm, called model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR).
Under investigation at several academic centers, MBIR could offer even better image quality and lower dose than the most recent hot thing in CT reconstruction, adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR). But like most things there's a catch -- at least for right now. Find out more by clicking here, and check back at ct.auntminnie.com for more coverage from this week's ISCT conference.
MRI inventor sues vendor
In other news, it's shades of the 1990s again in radiology as a physician/inventor has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against a major MRI manufacturer over patents related to several cutting-edge MRI techniques.
The patents in question concern diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) for evaluating white matter disease and other brain disorders, and neurography for nerve imaging. The physician is asking for billions in damages.
But there are signs the litigation could spread to other vendors -- and even to practitioners themselves, as the inventor believes that anyone using the technology is subject to the patents. Learn more by clicking here, or visit our MRI Digital Community at mri.auntminnie.com.
