Argenteuil is the first hospital in the national mammography screening program in France to offer women this opportunity in combination with mammography.
Reimbursement, patient education, and state notification bills about breast density are some factors that health care providers are watching closely as they look to the future of women's imaging.
According to industry research, more than half of all image-related clinical trial query stoppages result from preventable human errors that can delay a trial for up to seven weeks.
The awards to the Hackensack University Medical Center in Bergen County, NJ, and the Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, Me, were presented at the ACR annual meeting May 7 in Washington.
The agreement will enable PharmaLogic to provide its hospitals and imaging centers with access to UltraSPECT's Xpress line of products for significantly lower radiation dose with no diminished image quality.