Korean ultrasound vendor Medison unveiled its new SonoAce X8 ultrasound system, targeting the FDA-cleared device for hospitals, imaging centers and private physician offices.

Internet-based medical coding technology firm CodeRyte Inc. demonstrated its new vascular interventional radiology coding application. CodeRyte's new platform uses language-based statistical Web technologies and natural language processing to automatically code free-form physician dictations.

The ultrasound division of Siemens Medical Solutions featured its new Acuson X300 and Acuson X500 ultrasound scanners, as well as upgrades to its ultrasound workstation software and new cardiac imaging techniques. Siemens touts the X300 as offering exceptional imaging performance in a compact, portable package. It is compatible with the ErgoDynamic imaging system.

In an effort to make digital imaging available to a wider variety of facilities, Siemens Medical Solutions launched the first mobile X-ray unit with an integrated computed radiography reader. The MobileTT XP CR provides display for first-image review and image archiving right at the patient’s bedside.

Computerized practice management developer A-Life Medical debuted its Fusion3 natural language processing application ...

Nuclear medicine products firm IBA Molecular displayed Empact, its new education marketing initiative for PET and PET/CT. Empact offers marketing tools specifically designed to target referring physicians and instructs users in effectively marketing PET.