Mevion Medical Systems announced that University Hospitals (UH) in Cleveland used the Mevion S250 proton therapy system to treat its first patient, a 24-year-old woman with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of sarcoma.
Work pressures, money issues, exams, perhaps an illness in the family — these are common strains in every person's life. But when such daily battles are fought over long periods of time, we become subject to chronic stress.
The ACR has named Computerized Imaging Reference Systems, Inc. (CIRS) an approved vendor for the new ACR Digital Mammography Phantom.
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
Varian Medical Systems will be demonstrating its latest radiotherapy and radiosurgery technologies and software July 31 – August 3 in Washington, D.C., at the 2016 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) show. The company will also be hosting a developer workshop July 29-30.
A U.K-Poland consortium was recently awarded a €1.1M grant to develop a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based medical device to diagnose liver disease in children. Such a device could save children in the future from having to undergo biopsies.
July 27, 2016 — Virtual Imaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. Inc., announced the new RadPRO Mobile 40kW ...
While most women understand the importance of health screenings, an estimated 72 million have missed or postponed a ...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has carved an in-road for hackers to just about everything electronic from e-mail servers to automobiles and Internet-connected kitchen refrigerators. Imaging equipment is just a segment of that unsafe world — but a remarkably vulnerable one.
Among patients with up to three brain metastases, the use of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) alone, compared with SRS combined with whole brain radiotherapy, resulted in less cognitive deterioration at 3 months.
Cubresa Inc. announced the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a U.S. patent for a novel arrangement of imaging sensors and methods for determining sensor positions for 3-D imaging. The new method describes mounting many imaging sensors underneath a flexible substrate could reveal tumors within humans or animals.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
July 27, 2016 — A team with funding from the National Institutes of Health has created a new simulator that allows ...
July 26, 2016 — A new study shows that patients with brain metastases can be treated in an effective and substantially ...
July 25, 2016 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it expects to launch its new Overall ...
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The Imaging Technology News team is saddened to hear of the passing of Raymond Wtulich, manager/marketing communications at Hitachi Medical Systems America.
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear imaging technology (also referred to as molecular imaging) that enables ...
UltraSPECT Inc. announced recently that Robert Wood Johnson Physician Enterprise (RWJPE), a multi-specialty, community-based physician group in Central New Jersey, implemented UltraSPECT’s Xpress3.Cardiac solution at four of their sites.
A multidisciplinary research team has developed a high-temperature superconducting coil that allows magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners to produce higher resolution images or acquire images in a shorter time than when using conventional coils.
The number of new cases of metastatic prostate cancer climbed 72 percent in the past decade from 2004 to 2013, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
July 25, 2016 — Varian Medical Systems announced last week that Varex Imaging Corp. will be the name for its Imaging ...
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) recently issued a new clinical practice statement for the treatment of rectal cancer.
Radiologists who graduated from medical school after 1940 do not face an increased risk of dying from radiation-related causes like cancer, according to a new study appearing online in the journal Radiology.