Bugshooting -

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=150489

My girl would say, "You pee-oomed it!"

(peeoom peeoom!)

Be wary o patient, be very wary....

As reported by HealthImaging.com in this article, the American College of Radiology fattened up the healthy future act by making sure that patients will continue to flow their direction. According to the bill, Doctors will receive higher payments from Medicare if they refer their patients to an imaging exam. Why do physicians need a monetary incentive for this?

RE: EANM: FDG PET/CT offers diagnostic value for spondylodiscitis

"FDG PET/CT could be useful in the diagnosis of clinically suspected spondylodiscitis in patients with persistent back pain, according to a presentation last week at the 2009 European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) congress in Barcelona, Spain" reported HealthImaging.com in their blog. This may indeed be so, however this was a study on 22 patients only. How did they calculate that FDG PET/CT with a sensitivity of 82% vs MRI's 67% was better? Assume that 11 of these 22 patients actually had spondylodiscitis. Then 82% is 9 patients and 67% is 7.4 patients, so one or two patients more were detected with PET/CT than with MRI. Couldn't this easily be diagnostic noise?

How-to: Install Trac on a Win XP system

See also http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracInstall

Prequisites are

• Python (2.6 works)
• - Python/Scripts must be on the system path
• easy_install
• - see previous post on proxy configuration
• subversion server:
• I used Tigris 1.6.5 from http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?expandFolder=254&folderID=8100
• - The path to the subversion server must be on the "All users" system path as well as its dlls are needed by trac.
• - need the python bindings for the correct python version

On the command line, issue

> easy_install-2.6 Trac

How to: set a proxy in Windows for python
Why: So that easy_install can be used to install python packages from the python package index
Solution: set an env var HTTP_PROXY=http://your.proxy.com:8080 . Do not use quotes!
Then set FTP_PROXY to the same: FTP_PROXY=http://your.proxy.com:8080

How-to: Install python eggs on windows
Useful when the version of a package is not available for Windows yet. Gotta have cygwin though.
Make sure the desired python version is on the path in a cygwin bash shell, then
>cd dir-containing-the-egg
> sh xxx.egg

That's it!

It's a good 256-slice scanner with 0.27 s rotation time.

Philips installs 100th Brilliance iCT - read here on Aunt Minnie. Philips would have given UCSF Radiology - my previous work place - one for free or at a substantially reduced price ... Now I work at Philips :-)

I like subversion, and it's even better with beyond compare

This post describes how to tie the two together.
In my svn settings file, the relevant line looks like
diff-cmd = "C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 3\BComp.exe" "%6" /title1=%3 "%7" /title2=%5
Enjoy!

Swiss researchers are working on a hybrid cardiac imaging method that combines coronary CT angiography with SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging to predict relevant coronary lesions with considerably less radiation dose and scanning time: http://www.auntminnie.com/index.asp?Sec=sup&Sub=mol&Pag=dis&ItemId=86174&wf=3171

From Aunt Minnie: Cardiology groups revise guidelines for SPECT MPI
The American College of Cardiology Foundation collaborated with other specialty groups to update its SPECT MPI Appropriateness Criteria to include revisions in the uses of tests and clinical information and to better define the utilization of cardiac radionuclide imaging. The changes are anticipated to have a considerable effect on clinical practice.

MS SQL Server command line utility: osql
osql -? for options, osql -L to list servers, use -E options to use trusted login (essentially the windows login). The -S needs the fully qualified name.
Example: osql -H localhost -E -S SVEN-LAPTOP3\SQLEXPRESS