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July 27, 2009 – Carestream Health Inc. today launched a new Web-based cardiology PACS that offers a single integrated platform for diagnosis, image review and reporting for echocardiography, cardiac catheterization and nuclear cardiology procedures as well as electrocardiogram management.

Time July 27, 2009
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July 24, 2009 - Biotronics3D has worked with The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) to develop and launch new software called 3D Net Perfusion, a system that extracts data from images of tumors and transforms it into usable information.

Time July 24, 2009
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July 24, 2009 - Beekley Corporation and the Beekley Family Foundation donated a one million dollar combined gift to Bristol Hospital to help fund its new comprehensive breast care center. In recognition of this generous gift to the community, the center will be named The Beekley Center for Breast Health and Wellness at Bristol Hospital.

Time July 24, 2009
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July 23, 2009 – Konica Minolta Medical Imaging introduced today the FlexDR, an upright, flat panel digital radiography system designed for high-throughput environments.

Time July 23, 2009
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July 23, 2009 - Elekta will demonstrate how the its comprehensive VMAT solution can help healthcare providers deliver cancer care with precision and ease at the 2009 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting, July 26-30 in Anaheim, Calif.

Time July 23, 2009
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July 23, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare (booth #711) brings the treatment plan to the patient with the IM-RealART Solution, debuting at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Anaheim, Calif., July 26-30.

Time July 23, 2009
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July 23, 2009 – Dual-energy CT used as a single examination might be promising for the integrative analysis of the coronary artery morphology and the myocardial blood supply and is in good agreement with angiography and SPECT, according to a study published in this month’s issue of The American Journal of Cardiology (volume 104, issue 3, pages 318-326, August 2009).

Time July 23, 2009
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July 23, 2009 – The FDA recently cleared Ziehm Imaging’s latest mobile C-arm, the Ziehm Vision RFD, which is designed for use in endovascular surgery, interventional cardiology and interventional radiology.

Time July 23, 2009
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All of the questions surrounding the stimulus funding and what “meaningful use” really means is enough to give anyone a HITECH headache. On June 16, the Meaningful Use Workgroup released the definition of “meaningful use” in the “Meaningful Use Matrix.”* I thought they wanted to reduce redundancy. The definition included medical imaging in a couple of places.

Time July 23, 2009
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July 23, 2009 - The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) is changing its name to World Health Imaging, Telemedicine and Informatics Alliance (WHITIA) and expanding its mission to include bringing access to highly-trained medical professionals and the use of health informatics to help improve healthcare delivery in the developing world. Additionally, WHITIA announced that Newton N.

Time July 22, 2009
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July 23, 2009 – Advanced visualization and analysis software company Ziosoft Inc. released the latest version of its 3D thin-client software, adding MR cardiac and CT cardiac function applications.

Time July 22, 2009
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The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and its impact on radiology is foremost on the minds of everyone in healthcare.

Time July 22, 2009
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Feature | Iris C. Gibbs, M.D., radiation oncologis

Advances in the medical field have allowed physicians to treat cancer patients in a number of different ways, including surgery and radiation therapy. These advances have helped to prolong lives and made treatments possible where none were before.

Time July 22, 2009
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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

Women may sometimes choose a mastectomy over radiation therapy because either they cannot meet the daily demands of a five to seven-week radiation treatment schedule or they fear recurrence and feel a mastectomy is a safer choice.

Time July 22, 2009
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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

The art of radiation therapy is finding the balance between speed and accuracy. The challenge is to deliver the optimal amount of dose with pinpoint precision and without damaging healthy surrounding tissue. This task is further complicated, however, by fiscal pressures that force clinicians to put a premium on patient throughput, narrowing that window of accuracy.

Time July 22, 2009
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Feature | Marc Filerman is the vice president of g

According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is second only to lung cancer as America’s leading cancer killer each year. Over 50,000 Americans will die from colon cancer this year alone. While this is a staggering statistic, it is estimated that less than half of the Americans who are recommended to be screened for colon cancer actually get tested.

Time July 22, 2009
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Huntington Beach Diagnostic Imaging and Breast Center (HBDI) in Huntington Beach, Calif., is a state-of-the-art imaging practice located adjacent to Huntington Beach Hospital. HBDI, originally part of Huntington Beach Hospital, provided inpatient and outpatient mammography, ultrasound, MRI, CT, nuclear medicine and X-ray services.

Time July 22, 2009
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July 22, 2009 – Before implementing an electronic health record (EHR) system, providers must first gain control of the number of records, forms and files flowing through the organization, and a recent Xerox Corp. study explained issues involved.

Time July 22, 2009
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July 21, 2009 - Elekta and C-RAD have reached an agreement where the Sentinel laser scanner system has been selected as the Elekta preferred solution for optical surface tracking. Elekta’s customers will be offered this technology for patient positioning and intrafraction motion detection without the use of markers.

Time July 22, 2009
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July 21, 2009 - The FCR Prima digital X-ray system from FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA Inc. was created specifically to meet the X-ray needs of low volume private practices, and is now available.

Time July 22, 2009
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