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December 30, 2008 - Widespread adoption of computed tomographic colonography (CTC) will lead to the detection of numerous incidental extracolonic findings (ECFs), which may result in unexpected costs, said Lincoln L.
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By Nick Obradovich Recently, Donald Frush, M.D., professor of radiology at the Duke University School of Medicine, chief of pediatric radiology at Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center and a leading pediatric radiation dose expert, sat down with ITN to discuss the current efforts being made to lower the radiation dose for pediatric CT scans.
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December 30, 2008 – Merit Medical Systems said it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Miser contrast management system. The product has patents pending and will be released during the first quarter of 2009.
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December 30, 2008 - Volcano Corp. will acquire Axsun Technologies Inc., a developer and manufacturer of lasers and optical engines used in medical Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging systems and advanced photonic components, as part of Volcano’s strategy to establish its position in invasive imaging.
December 30, 2008 News
December 29, 2008 - Avalon Portfolio LLC, on Dec. 23, 2008, nominated four new directors to serve on the board of TomoTherapy Inc. as part of a strategy to generate greater value for the company’s shareholders as TomoTherapy's stock have continued to fall since stock price since 2007.
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December 30, 2008 - Gilbert Hospital in Gilbert, AZ, has installed a GE Healthcare LightSpeed VCT 64-slice CT imaging system. Gilbert says the scanner captures images in as little as one second and can perform whole body trauma scans in as little as ten seconds.
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December 30, 2008 - Health Systems Solutions agreed to extend the closing date for their pending merger to Feb. 11, 2009.
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December 30, 2008 - Parents magazine has named St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as the No. 1 pediatric cancer care hospital in the country. The results, based on the magazine's survey of more than 100 children's hospitals, appear in the February 2009 issue on newsstands nationwide Jan. 13, 2009.
December 29, 2008 News
December 20, 2008 - Overall survival in breast cancer patients is superior with five years of adjuvant letrozole compared to tamoxifen, according to results from the Breast International Group 1-98 trial.
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December 29, 2008 - MEDISON Co. won the “Good Design Awards 2008” award (KIDP Director’s Prize) for its new ultrasound system, ACCUVIX V20.
December 29, 2008 
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December 29, 2008 – iCAD’s SecondLook Digital CAD technology customized for use with Agfa HealthCare’s Computed Radiography Systems is now available throughout Europe, as the company moves forward with its business strategy to increase the use of iCAD systems outside of the U.S.
December 29, 2008 News
December 29, 2008 - A combination treatment of prostate cancer can cut death rates in half, according to results from a Scandinavian study published in the Dec. 16 online issue of The Lancet.
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December 29, 2008 – When Zemiva, an imaging agent by Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals Inc., is combined with the standard of care for the diagnostic evaluation of the chest pain patient, improved the detection of cardiac ischemia by more than 50 percent greater than the standard of care when compared to the standard of care alone.
December 28, 2008 
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December 29, 2008 - Accuray Inc. said that 100 CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery Systems now have been installed within the U.S. This milestone was achieved with the installation of a CyberKnife System at Brandon Regional Hospital in Brandon, FL.
December 28, 2008 
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December 23, 2008 - The risk of developing lymphedema is 40 percent to 60 percent higher in women with body mass index (BMI) classified as overweight or obese compared to normal weight women, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Missouri (MU).
December 23, 2008 News
December 23, 2008 - Amgen has submitted a Biologics License Application (BLA) with the FDA for denosumab, an investigational RANK Ligand inhibitor, as Amgen seeks FDA approval for treatment and prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO) in women, and treatment and prevention of bone loss in patients undergoing hormone ablation for either prostate or breast cancer.
December 23, 2008 
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December 23, 2008 - The FDA cleared Ion Beam Applications’ (IBA) cyclotron-based integrated commercial proton therapy system with pencil beam scanning (PBS), a delivery method that allows for precise dose delivery by its proton therapy system.
December 23, 2008 News
December 23, 2008 - The Moscow Municipal University of Psychology and Education in Moscow, Russia, and the University of Trento in Trento, Italy, have ordered Elekta Neuromag, equipment for noninvasive measurement of brain activity using magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology, for research purposes.
December 23, 2008 
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December 23, 2008 – The Cross Cancer Institute (CCI) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada reported today that medical physicists have produced the first image from a linac-MR hybrid system on Dec. 10, 2008.
December 23, 2008 
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December 23, 2008 — The Alfred in Melbourne, Australia, used AngioDynamics’s NanoKnife system, which leverages irreversible electroporation (IRE) technology, on a lymph node metastasis and the first lung lesion case.
December 22, 2008