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October 12, 2009 – The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) announced four new Category 1 CPT codes for cardiac computed tomography will become effective Jan. 1, 2010.

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October 11, 2009 – GE Healthcare announced the European launch of Discovery NM/CT 670, a hybrid imaging platform designed to improve workflow, dose management, and overall image quality, during the EANM'09 Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, held Oct. 10-14 in Barcelona, Spain.

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October 12, 2009 - The FDA notified healthcare professionals that it has become aware of radiation overexposures during perfusion CT imaging performed to aid in the diagnosis of stroke at a particular facility, the patients receiving radiation doses that were approximately eight times the expected level.

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October 12, 20009 - Joanna Fowler, Ph.D., a major contributor to brain research and a pioneer in molecular imaging, is being recognized by the White House with the National Medal of Science—the highest award for lifetime achievement in science. Eight other researchers will join Fowler to receive the award at a White House ceremony on October 7.

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October 12, 2009 - Dilon Diagnostics, a molecular breast imaging (MBI), also known as breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI), device manufacturer, and Philips Healthcare have entered into a distribution agreement, in which Philips will sell and support the Dilon 6800 gamma camera in key European and Middle Eastern markets.

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October 12, 2009 - Agfa HealthCare has integrated Nuance’s Critical Test Result Management (CTRM) solution, Veriphy, into IMPAX for the Canadian market.

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October 9, 2009 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) will open new studies regarding Medicare Part B imaging payments and appropriateness of many emergency department scans according to the recently released OIG Fiscal Year 2010 Work Plan, reported the American College of Radiology.

Time October 09, 2009
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October 9, 2009, 2009 — The University of Minnesota Boynton Health Service has adopted 7 Medical System’s on-demand PACS service, cutting costs by 30 percent and automating workflows to improve quality of care to its undergraduate and graduate population of more than 65,000 students.

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October 8, 2009 — Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI), a molecular breast imaging technique with comparable sensitivity to breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for detecting breast carcinoma when used in pre-surgical planning for patients with known cancer diagnoses and is substantially less expensive than MRI, according to findings presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncolog

Time October 09, 2009
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Co-operation across hospital and regional boundaries results in great efficiency gains. Sectra RIS/PACS is a performance solution for wide area radiology – enabling efficient workload sharing across multiple sites, even for very large image stacks over strained networks.

Time October 08, 2009
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At RSNA 2009, Sectra will showcase its digital mammography solution, Sectra MicroDose Mammography[1], featuring further enhanced performance for high-volume screening. Sectra customers perform as many as 15 four-image examinations per hour. With a fast detector, the system allows for an even higher productivity if needed.

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October 8, 2009 - Radiologist Loren H. Ketai, M.D., from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, will bring her medical expertise to Estonia as part of the International Visiting Professor Program offered by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

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October 8, 2009 - Effective Jan. 1, 2010, the American College of Radiology (ACR) CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine and PET Accreditation Program requirements for medical physicists and MR will change.

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October 8, 2009 - October 8th, 2009 - Bionix Radiation Therapy offers three new positioning products, including a full body positioning device for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT).

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October 8, 2009 - Agfa HealthCare at RSNA 2009 will demonstrate how its DR portfolio with the introduction of the DX-D 500n* and DX-D 300 DR* systems in North America.

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October 8, 2009 - Royal Philips Electronics said it has developed a digital silicon photomultiplier technology that will allow faster and more accurate photon (the basic quantum unit of light) counting in a wide range of applications where ultra-low light levels need to be measured.

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October 8, 2009 - Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, will provide its development candidate florbetaben, a PET (positron emission tomography) tracer, to the Swiss-based biopharmaceutical company AC Immune SA, to support a clinical trial in the field of Alzheimer´s disease (AD). This study is conducted to develop a therapy option for the treatment of AD.

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October 8, 2009 – Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. said two oral presentations featuring gadofosveset trisodium, the first and only FDA cleared blood pool contrast agent for magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), were presented at MRA-Club 09: The 21st Annual International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Angiography.

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The RAPIDOSE is a significant new advancement in the way x-ray measurements are made for diagnostic and Mammography X-ray machines. For every exposure, a wealth of organized data is captured which can all be viewed instantly without scrolling. At the end of a measurement session, easily save all automatically recorded measurement values and waveforms for future analysis.

Time October 07, 2009
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Radcal Corporation's PDC (Patient Dose Calibrator) is a DAP meter calibrator which measures DAP, DAP-rate, dose and dose rate and solves much publicized problems relating to variation of DAP, patient dose system and AEC calibration and is ideally suited to aid the setting of reference doses.

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