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MIM Software Inc. announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for additional automatically segmented contours and local deployment for Contour ProtégéAI, its robust AI auto-contouring solution

News | Artificial Intelligence

MIM Software Inc. Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Additional AI Contours and Local Deployment

November 3, 2021 — MIM Software Inc. announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

November 03, 2021

Instadose dosimetry is a SMARTER personal dosimeter technology that eliminates the need to collect and return badges every wear period.

News | Radiation Dose Management

Mirion Technologies Acquires CHP Dosimetry

November 3, 2021 — Mirion Technologies, Inc., a global provider of detection, measurement, analysis and monitoring ...

November 03, 2021

the all new Sectra Keypad—designed in close collaboration with breast radiologists, it empowers users to be more efficient during mammography screening reading and beyond. Its ergonomic design reduces fatigue while easily reconfigurable keys provide access to the right tools at the right time

News | Enterprise Imaging

Sectra to Highlight Brilliant Radiology Workflows at RSNA 2021

November 3, 2021 — “Brilliant workflows. Made for you.” is the key theme for international medical imaging IT and ...

November 03, 2021

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BLOG: Orchestrating Radiology Workflow in a Large, Distributed Reading

Large radiology groups often face challenges distributing workflow effectively and fairly across the organization ...

November 05, 2021

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued the following statement today from Laura Dawson, MD, FASTRO, Chair of the ASTRO Board of Directors, in response to the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) final rules announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

News | Radiation Oncology

ASTRO Deeply Concerned and Disappointed Over CMS 2022 Final Rules

November 3, 2021 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued the following statement today from Laura ...

November 03, 2021

PaxeraHealth has announced that it will be unveiling the Ark - a patent pending technology - at RSNA 2021. Inspired by the story of Noah’s Ark, the Ark is a zero-coding authoring platform that offers "Algorithms as a service" to help healthcare systems and academic centers to DIY their own artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for all possible modalities, body parts, and anomalies.

News | Artificial Intelligence

PaxeraHealth Launches the Ark at RSNA 2021

November 2, 2021 — PaxeraHealth has announced that it will be unveiling the Ark - a patent pending technology - at RSNA ...

November 02, 2021

A 37-year-old woman developed a new, palpable left supraclavicular lymphadenopathy lump five days after her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in the left arm. On the day of vaccination, the patient was asymptomatic. This is an example of how the vaccine can mimic cancer and swollen lymph nodes. Read more about this case study. Image used with permission of RSNA.

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November 2, 2021 — Here is a list of the Top 10 most popular pieces of content on ITNonline.com from the month of ...

November 02, 2021

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Blog | Enterprise Imaging

BLOG: Integrating Speech Recognition into Radiology Platforms to Improve

Today, enterprise imaging is breaking down silos, providing greater insight into health system and hospital operations ...

September 27, 2021

FLASH therapy, powered by the use of Varian’s ProBeam, is an experimental treatment modality delivering radiation therapy at ultra-high dose rates, in typically less than one second.

News | Proton Therapy

Varian and the Cincinnati Children's/UC Health Proton Therapy Center Complete Enrollment of FAST-01

November 2, 2021 — Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, and the Cincinnati Children's/UC Health Proton Therapy Center ...

November 02, 2021

Philips will demonstrate its Multimodality RT Simulation Workspace, a precision medicine application that provides a vendor-agnostic single space for simulation, multimodality image fusion and contouring

News | ASTRO

Philips Highlights New Patient-centered Innovations at ASTRO 2021

November 2, 2021 — Philips announced new innovations that can help improve cancer care across the patient journey at the ...

November 02, 2021

Data presented demonstrates use of DCISionRT and its response subtype (Rst) was able to identify women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (Stage 0 breast cancer) who remain at an elevated risk of recurrence despite receiving breast conserving surgery (BCS) and radiation therapy (RT).

News | Radiation Therapy

PreludeDx Presents DCIS Precision Medicine Study Results at ASTRO 2021 Annual Meeting

November 2, 2021 — Prelude Corporation, a leader in molecular diagnostics and precision medicine for early-stage breast ...

November 02, 2021

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Videos | Enterprise Imaging

Talking Trends with Konica Minolta: Integrating Speech Recognition into

Integrated Speech recognition solutions are becoming a necessary part of radiology reporting platforms. Konica Minolta ...

August 06, 2021

T1-Based Criteria for Myocarditis on Cardiac MRI in Patients With Recent COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination: Early gadolinium enhancement (EGE) compared with precontrast SSFP sequence (not shown) is observed on early postcontrast short-axis SSFP images in (A) 16-year-old male, (B) 17-year-old male, (C) 16-year-old male, and (D) 19-year-old male, and on early postcontrast short-axis perfusion image in (E) 17-year-old male (arrow, A-E). Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) is also present (arrows) in all 5 patients (F, G

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Cardiac MRI of Myocarditis After COVID-19 Vaccination in Adolescents

November 1, 2021 — According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), radiologists need to be cognizant of the ...

November 01, 2021

Koning begins an FDA screening trial this month for their no-compression, Isotropic, 3-dimensional breast imaging device. The company received FDA PMA approval for commercial, diagnostic use in 2017

News | Breast Imaging

Koning Begins FDA Clinical Screening Trial in Daytona Beach

November 1, 2021 — Koning begins an FDA screening trial this month for their no-compression, Isotropic, 3-dimensional ...

November 01, 2021

New ultrafast photon detectors allow for rapid processing of data from positron emission or X-ray scans without the need for tomography to reconstruct images. This image shows a brain phantom (model) scanned by positron emission using the new technology.

News | PET Imaging

Detector Advance Could Lead to Cheaper, Easier Medical Scans

November 1, 2021 — Researchers in the U.S. and Japan have demonstrated the first experimental cross-sectional medical ...

November 01, 2021

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The key to the successful adoption of AI is ensuring that it seamlessly augments radiologists’ training, expertise, and reporting workflows

Blog | Artificial Intelligence

BLOG: Improving Care Quality and Outcomes with Workflow-Integrated AI

Beyond its current and potential benefits in a growing number of clinical use cases, workflow-integrated artificial ...

July 21, 2021

18F-FDG PET in patients with long-COVID syndrome. A and B: Transaxial sections of group averaged, spatially normalized 18F-FDG PET scans in patients with long-COVID syndrome (A) and control patients (B). C: The pattern expression score (PES; *adjusted for age and sex, for illustration purposes) of the previously established COVID-19-related spatial covariance pattern was not significantly different between patients with long-COVID syndrome and control patients. Boxplots (grey), as well as individual values

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Molecular Imaging Suggests Long-COVID Symptoms may be Caused by Fatigue

November 1, 2021 — Long-term cognitive problems after a COVID-19 diagnosis may be a result of fatigue rather than ...

November 01, 2021

ClariCT.AI helps improve the image quality of low-dose CT scans. This image shows before and after denoising imaging.

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ClariPi Joins Nuance AI Marketplace for Ultra-Low-Dose CT Image Denoising Solution

October 29, 2021 — ClariPi Inc. recently announced that its ClariCT.AI software will be available on the Nuance AI ...

October 29, 2021

News | Molecular Imaging

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes Expansion Event Unveils Advanced Radioisotope Production Equipment and Breaks Ground on First-in-Kind Therapeutic Radioisotope Production Facility

October 29, 2021 — NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC, a global innovator in the development, production and ...

October 29, 2021

News | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)

Serial Radiation Therapy is Safe and Effective as Alternative Treatment to Systemic Therapy for Kidney Cancer

October 29, 2021 — In a new single-arm study, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported ...

October 29, 2021

Elekta Harmony radiation therapy system at ASTRO 2021.

360 Photos | Radiation Therapy

360 Degree View of the Harmony Radiation Therapy System at ASTRO 2021

This is a virtual tour of the New Elekta Harmony radiation therapy system at the American Society of Radiation Oncology ...

October 28, 2021

This is a 360 degree view inside one of the brachytherapy treatment rooms at the Northwestern Medicine's center center in Warrenville, Ill., in the western suburbs of Chicago. The room is equipped with a Varian VariSource brachytherapy afterloader.

360 Photos | Brachytherapy Systems

Brachytherapy Treatment Room 360 Degree View at Northwestern Medicine

This is a 360 degree view inside one of the brachytherapy treatment rooms at Northwestern Medicine's center in ...

October 28, 2021

In a phase 2 single-institution study, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found that dose-equivalent preoperative radiation therapy for extremity/trunk soft tissue sarcoma delivered in five days rather than over the conventional five weeks produced similar benefits and treatment side effects.

News | Radiation Therapy

Optimizing Preoperative Radiation Therapy in High-risk Sarcoma

October 28, 2021 — In a phase 2 single-institution study, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found ...

October 28, 2021

An individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis of randomized, controlled clinical trials provides strong evidence for the addition of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to definitive radiotherapy (RT) for the treatment of prostate cancer, with the projection that adding ADT to the treatment of 10-15 men would prevent the development of distant metastasis in one man.

News | Prostate Cancer

International Meta-analysis Quantifies Impact of Three Prostate Cancer Therapy Intensification Strategies

October 28, 2021 — An individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis of randomized, controlled clinical trials provides ...

October 28, 2021