August 3, 2009 – Xoft Inc. today announced that it has expanded the treatment capabilities of the Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy, eBx, system with the launch of a multicenter skin cancer trial to further prove the safety and feasibility for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers here at the 51st Annual American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Meeting.
August 3, 2009 - A new lung cancer detection device, the Lung Cell Evaluation Device (LuCED), uses an automated 3D cell imaging platform aimed at detection of pre-cancerous and cancerous cells in sputum.
August 3, 2009 - The Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI), a national network of 51 imaging centers based in Minneapolis, Minn., signed a contract with Merge Healthcare to use Merge Mammo 7.2, the newest version of Merge’s breast imaging workstation software.
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August 3, 2009 - St. Joseph’s Hospital, a rural facility, has selected AccelaRAD’s Virtual Radiology Network (VRN) to provide efficient digital management of multimodality diagnostic images, including image access for its offsite radiology reading group and report access for referring physicians.
July 30, 2009 - The Senographe Essential Interventional is an add-on digital stereotaxy option on the company’s innovative Senographe Essential digital mammography platform, which it will show at the Breast Imaging Conference (BIC), held Sept. 15-17, in Glendale, Ariz.
July 30, 2009 - Aurora Imaging will show at the Breast Imaging Conference, held Sept. 15-17, in Glendale, Ariz., the new AuroraEDGE technology is designed to improve image resolution and eliminate common breast MRI artifacts for crystal clear images of both breasts, axillae, chest wall and mediastinum in a single, 3D bilateral scan.
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July 30, 2009 - Scientists reporting in the July 31 issue of SCIENCE have discovered a key disease-related biologic pathway using an integrated and innovative array of in vitro readouts and advanced in vivo imaging technologies, reported VisEn Medical Inc., a fluorescence in vivo imaging company.
July 30, 2009 - Erie County Medical Center Corp. of Buffalo, N.Y. has ordered two DIRECTVIEW DR 7500 Systems from Carestream Health for its new digital Orthopaedic X-ray Suite in order to generate high-quality digital X-ray images in seconds.
July 30, 2009 - The iso-omolar contrast medium iodixanol does not yield lower rates of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) than low-osmolar contrast media (LOCM), according to a meta-analysis published in the July 2009 issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.
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July 30, 2009 – ZONARE Medical Systems Inc. began shipping the new z.one ultra sp ultrasound system to multiple customer sites.
July 30, 2009 – What’s the funniest thing that has happened in your office? That is what FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA wants to know in a video contest it is launching in conjunction with the introduction and release of the new Fuji Computed Radiography (FCR) Prima digital X-ray system.
July 30, 2009 – NovaRad is extending its installations in Texas, adding two imaging centers that have recently selected its radiology technologies.
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July 30, 2009 - Patients and leading patient advocates from across the country, in partnership with the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA, a division of NEMA), gathered yesterday at the U.S.
July 29, 2009 – Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc’s Aquilion ONE was named a Gold winner in the Medical Design Excellence Awards, an award organized by Canon Communications and sponsored by the company’s Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry magazine. The world’s first dynamic volume CT system received a Gold award in the Radiological and Electromechanical Devices category.
July 29, 2009 - The latest post-9/11 standards for tracking radioactive materials, the long-term trends in radiation exposure to physicians and the public, and some of the latest ideas for minimizing medical radiation dosage to children, adults and health professionals are focal points at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 51st Annual Meeting, taking place from July 26 - 30,
July 29, 2009 - A patient's anatomy changes shape between treatments fractions. Doctors and physicists strive to find a solution that enables them to efficiently and precisely alter the treatment plan accordingly. The IM-RealART Solution allows for real time plan re-calculation taking into account the actual tumor shapes by creating new MLC apertures adapted to modified contours.
July 29, 2009 - A computer program designed by a University of Chicago team uses artificial intelligence to analyze the features of ultrasound images in order to help doctors predict earlier whether a woman's cancer has metastasized.
July 29, 2009 – The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) and a coalition of eight other organizations have issued a white paper urging Congress to take steps to maintain adequate supplies of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), a radioactive substance that is the basis for a common medical isotope used in more than 80 percent of all nuclear medicine procedures.
July 29, 2009 - The tubes that power X-ray machines are shrinking, improving the clarity and detail of their Superman-like vision, according to a team of nanomaterial scientists, medical physicists and cancer biologists at the University of North Carolina.
July 29, 2009 – At the AAPM 51st Annual Meeting, Calypso Medical Technologies touted its strategic development agreement with Varian Medical Systems to jointly develop products integrating its Calypso System with Varian’s radiotherapy treatment technologies.
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