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Governor Jan Brewer has signed Arizona's breast density inform bill into law (SB 1225). The legislation was introduced at the request of diagnostic radiologist Nicole B. Saphier, M.D. Arizona becomes the 15th state to enact and raises to 50 percent the number of American women living in states with mandatory breast density notification. States with pending legislation include CO, DE, KY, MA, MI, MO and RI.
April 18, 2014 
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Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. received approval to operate (ATO) with the U.S. Air Force, making Toshiba the only current manufacturer to have a fully certified computed tomography (CT) system for use on the Air Force Network.
April 17, 2014 News
ICB Intl. Inc., (ICBI), announced the development of a tracer for imaging alpha-synuclein (a-Syn) in Parkinson's-like mice at the Keystone Symposium for Parkinson disease (PD) in Keystone, Colo.
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April 16, 2014 — Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University have tested an experimental cancer vaccine in combination with radiation therapy in mice with colorectal cancer. In research published online in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, they showed the vaccine was most effective when tumors were irradiated first and then vaccinated a week later.
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April 16, 2014 — Visage Imaging announced it has released version 7.1.5 of the Visage 7 Enterprise Imaging Platform, including optimized navigation and tools, and significant speed enhancements to Visage 7’s performance with massive digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) studies.
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Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc. held an update meeting with the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the pending Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) of Lymphoseek (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) Injection.
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Ion Beam Applications S.A. (IBA) announced the delivery of its 1,000th Blue Phantom² system. The device was delivered to the Centre de Radiothérapie des Ardennes, Charleville-Mézières, France.
April 16, 2014 
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April 15, 2014 — NEC Display Solutions of America announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) market clearance of the 30-inch MultiSync MD302C4 LCD, a widescreen display for diagnostic review applications in healthcare organizations.
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April 15, 2014 — Mevion Medical Systems announced an agreement with Chiyoda Technol Corp. for the exclusive distribution of the Mevion S250 proton therapy system in the Japanese market.
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April 15, 2014 — Shimadzu Medical Systems USA announced an agreement with Konica Minolta Medical Imaging to expand the availability of the AeroDR portable wireless solution to MobileArt portable X-ray systems.
April 15, 2014 
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aycan, in conjunction with its business partner, medQ,announced the availability of aycan workflow, a fully integrated radiology information system/picture archive and communication system (RIS/PACS) solution that provides a turnkey end-to-end digital imaging and patient management system.
April 15, 2014 
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) market clearance for the GE Healthcare Revolution computed tomography (CT) system. The 256-slice CT system offers technology that provides excellent image quality and clinical capabilities through the convergence of coverage, spatial resolution and temporal resolution.
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April 15, 2014 — VuComp Inc. announced it has released an updated version of its M-Vu Breast Density technology. The new M-Vu Breast Density 2.0 adds a critical dimension to the analysis of dense breast tissue. The VuComp density category, analogous to the BI-RADS breast density composition category, is now correlated to not only the amount, but also the distribution – the actual dispersion – of fibroglandular tissue.
April 15, 2014 News
April 11, 2014 — A University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) describes a novel method to "manipulate the lipid metabolism in the cancer cell to trick them to use more radiolabeled glucose, the basis of PET [positron emission tomography] scanning," according to Isabel Schlaepfer, Ph.D., investigator at the CU Cancer Center Department of Pharmacology and recipient of a 2014 Minority Scholar Award in Cancer Research from AACR.
April 11, 2014 
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April 11, 2014 — Calgary Scientific Inc. announced their latest Class II clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Its enterprise image-viewing solution, ResolutionMD, is now cleared for diagnosis on mobile devices for all imaging modalities. This builds upon their previous clearances for diagnosis using web, iOS and Android devices.
April 11, 2014 
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April 11, 2014 — Medtronic announced CE mark and European launch of the Evera MRI SureScan implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) system, the first and only ICD system approved for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans positioned on any region of the body. The Medtronic Evera MRI ICD is not approved in the United States.
April 11, 2014 
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Elekta, Royal Philips and University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht (the Netherlands) announced that the initial components of the world's first high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided radiation therapy system are being installed at UMC Utrecht.
April 10, 2014 News
The Ontario Association of Radiologists (OAR) strongly supports the Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) campaign, launched by the Canadian Medical Assn.
April 10, 2014 
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April 10, 2014 — In a presentation exploring the promise of magnetic nanoparticle (mNP) hyperthermia in breast cancer treatment, Dartmouth researcher P. Jack Hoopes, DMV, Ph.D., co-director of Norris Cotton Cancer Center's Nanotechnology Working Group, reviewed preclinical studies conducted at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and discussed plans for early-phase clinical studies in humans at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
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April 10, 2014 — Stephen Wiley of Terrell, Texas, is the first known patient to be treated for vocal cord cancer with the CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery system from Accuray, announced officials from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
April 10, 2014