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April 27, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week cleared a large field-of-view, general-purpose portable nuclear imaging system.
April 27, 2010 
Feature | Davis W. Graham is executive director/CFO of Manatee Diagnostic Center in Bradenton, Fla.
As the managers of a diagnostic imaging center, my colleagues and I took it upon ourselves to pay a visit to our U.S. senator in Washington D.C., and express our views on the proposed health care bill. We started the dialogue by posing a basic question to the senator’s legislative correspondent on health care and his staff.
April 26, 2010 
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April 26, 2010 - Performing real-time imaging in the operating room (OR) is a reality today. Intraoperative imaging provides surgeons with navigational accuracy despite anatomical movement that occurs during a surgical procedure. This assists neurosurgeons in conducting tumor resections, while avoiding critical areas of the brain.
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April 26, 2010 - As magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology is an effective diagnostic tools for cases involving tumors, aneurysms, examining the condition of organs as the heart, liver, kidneys, brain, and in different soft tissue.
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April 26, 2010 - The introduction of a large field, solid-state portable general-purpose camera makes it possible to image with greater flexability a wide range of nuclear medicine procedures. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave Digirad Corp. 510(k) clearance to market and distribute Ergo, a large field-of-view, general-purpose portable imaging system.
April 26, 2010 News
April 26, 2010 - Merge Healthcare Inc. and Amicas Inc. today announced the expiration of the tender offer (Offer) for all of the outstanding shares of Amicas’ common stock by Project Ready Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merge Healthcare. The offer expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City, New York time, on Friday, April 23, 2010.
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April 23, 2010 - Professor Lars Leksell, the inventor of the Gamma Knife, a radiosurgical instrument, performed the world's first Gamma Knife surgery at nearby Sophiahemmet Hospital, the location of the first Leksell Gamma Knife.
April 23, 2010 Feature | Jack Norris is vice president of marketi
Hospitals, radiology centers and radiation oncology clinics are struggling to cope with the explosion of patient data. As advances in imaging and instrumentation continue to develop and the volume of output expands ever faster, existing storage infrastructures cannot keep pace.
April 23, 2010 News
April 23, 2010 - Vendor-neutral picture archive and communication systems (PACS) are facilitating interoperability across existing modalities and networks.
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April 23, 2010 - House Energy and Commerce Chair, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Ways and Means Committee Chair, Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.), and Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Chair, Rep.
April 23, 2010 
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April 22, 2010 - Researchers came one step closer to improving the selection of patients for targeted breast cancer therapies.
April 22, 2010 
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April 22, 2010 - With the proliferation of telemedicine and tereradiology services, the two fields are crossing paths on over health care networks, and in particular in image-enabled electronic health records (EHRs), also known as image exchanges.
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April 21, 2010 - A decrease in breast density, or the proportion of fibroglandular tissue depicted on the mammogram image, over a number of years is associated with decreased risk of breast cancer, reported researchers from the Mayo Clinic campus in Minnesota at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 101st Annual Meeting 2010.
April 21, 2010 
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April 21, 2010 - Customer satisfaction is a key indicator of the success of a medical imaging device in a clinical setting. In the latest MD Buyline end user satisfaction survey, Konica Minolta ranked No. 1.
April 21, 2010 News
April 21, 2010 - A computerized segmentation system can reliably estimate changes in tumor size on computed tomography (CT) scans relative to radiologists' manual segmentation, according to new research published in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
April 21, 2010 
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April 21, 2010 - Performing coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) saved $789 in patients who had positive stress test results but a less than 50 percent chance of having significant coronary artery disease (CAD) compared to invasive cardiac catheterization, reported a study in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
April 21, 2010 
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April 21, 2010 - Tracking tumor motion is one of the biggest challenges in radiation therapy. Gating is of the most sophisticated techniques for tracking tumors on moving organs and sparring surrounding healthy tissue. Respiratory gating allows the clinicians to adjust and turn off the beam when the tumor is out of range.
April 21, 2010 
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April 21, 2010 - A new platform for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) and radiosurgery designed to treat a moving tumor with greater speed and precision, is now in use at the University Hospital of Zürich.
April 21, 2010 News
April 21, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Transparency Website today as part of the agency's transparency initiative. The site will provide information about medical device and radiation-emitting product regulatory processes and decisions, and summaries of data that provide the rationale for agency actions.
April 20, 2010 
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April 21, 2010 - The American College of Radiology (ACR) is presently asking radiologists, radiation oncologists and all doctors to sign a petition to permanently repeal the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula.
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