The recent 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) in Portland, Ore., featured many key topics pertinent to this industry’s future growth. While there, I had the opportunity to discuss several of these issues with top industry leaders.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced the press program for its 58th Annual Meeting, Sept. 25-28 in Boston. The program includes multiple reports from phase III clinical trials, researchers from leading institutions in the United States and abroad, and examinations of a range of cancer types and patient populations. Researchers will share their findings in a series of briefings held on-site at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center and webcast to registered press.
September 7, 2016 — Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. announced that its Aplio 500 Platinum ultrasound system will be ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
September 7, 2016 — Blue Earth Diagnostics announced that the first post-U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
Athletes warm up before a workout or game. But how might intellectuals get ready? There may be a way. And it may involve smartphones.

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While most women understand the importance of health screenings, an estimated 72 million have missed or postponed a ...
In an analysis that included more than 1.4 million births, exposure to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during the first trimester of pregnancy compared with nonexposure was not associated with increased risk of harm to the fetus or in early childhood.
Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc. announced that it has executed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Cardinal Health for the sale of all rights, title and interest to Navidea’s Lymphoseek product. The agreement covers all U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved, pending and future oncology diagnostic indications in North America, subject to certain limitations, as well as certain other related assets. Under the terms of the LOI, Navidea would receive $80 million at closing, with future consideration tied to annual sales of the Lymphoseek product and certain sales-based milestones. Total consideration to Navidea would be capped at $310 million.
September 6, 2016 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) and RaySearch Laboratories have entered into a long-term strategic ...
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
September 2, 2016 — For children with autism and a class of genetic disorders, diagnostic ultrasound exposure in the ...
September 2, 2016 — Clear Image Devices LLC announced it will be displaying a new product, the Bucky Protector, at the ...
Mayfair Diagnostics, a medical imaging clinic in Calgary, Alberta, is revealing its newest medical imaging clinic in Coventry Hills, which is being described as the clinic of the future because of the way it was designed.
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September 2, 2016 — The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) recently signed an agreement to build its ...
Carestream announced it has begun shipping its new DRX Core family of DRX detectors. The new detectors are designed to make reliable, high-quality digital radiography (DR) imaging affordable for imaging centers, small to mid-size hospitals, urgent care facilities, specialty clinics and providers that perform mobile imaging exams.
September 1, 2016 — The American Society for Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ...
Here is the list of the top 15 most popular pieces of content on the Imaging Technology News (ITN) magazine website from the month of August based on website analytics:
The past decade has witnessed significant developments in ultrasound technologies ranging from portable devices, wireless transducers to 3-D/4-D ultrasound imaging and artificial intelligence. Researchers and scientists are endeavoring on developing technologies that simplify diagnostic procedures, improve efficiency of clinicians, and enhance image quality.
August 30, 2016 — Calgary Scientific Inc. announced in mid-July that ResolutionMD medical imaging software is registered ...
Rockefeller University researchers have used a recently-developed imaging technique that makes tissue transparent to visualize brain tissue from deceased patients with Alzheimer's disease. The techniques has exposed nonrandom, higher-order structures of beta amyloid plaques — sticky clumps of a toxic protein typically found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's. The findings appear July 14 in Cell Reports.
August 30, 2016 — Franciscan Health Rensselaer, Rensselaer, Ind., purchased a new Carestream DRX-Excel Plus radiography ...