April 21, 2009 — 20/20 Imaging said it installed its 100th P-DR 715 digital radiography (DR) system at Arizona Orthopedic Surgical Hospital in Chandler, AZ. Bruce W. Krell, DPM, FACFAS, practice owner and a solo practitioner, sees up to 125 patients per week and does up to 30 X-rays a day.
April 21, 2009 – In a study in which researchers from the MD Anderson Cancer Centre Orlando, FL, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, conducted an analysis of prostate motion during helical tomotherapy, they concluded that the impact on target dose is actually quite small (Int. J. Rad. Oncol. Biol. Phys. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.09.035).
April 21, 2009 – Konica Minolta announced today that for the 15th straight quarter, MD Buyline has named the company the top rated CR vendor in a report based on an end-user satisfaction survey.
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
April 21, 2009 - A 51-year old female cancer patient from Switzerland has become the first patient outside the U.S. to be treated with RapidArc radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems on a Novalis Tx platform for radiosurgery and radiotherapy.
April 20, 2009 – The 2009 Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Annual Scientific Meeting (SCCT 2009) has received nearly 200 scientific abstracts for its fourth annual show, which is scheduled for July 16-19, 2009 in Orlando, FL.
April 20, 2009 - The University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) has installed North America's first dual axis rotational cardiac X-ray for clinical use, allowing physicians to more clearly locate and diagnose blockage in the heart's arteries. The equipment cuts radiation exposure by 33 percent, reduces X-ray time by a similar amount and offers other benefits.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
April 20, 2009 - The Mind Research Network (MRN) has acquired an Elekta Neuromag, a device for noninvasive measurement of brain activity using Magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology. MEG is an imaging technique used to measure the magnetic fields produced by electrical activity in the brain via extremely sensitive devices such as superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). T
It would be hard to argue that portable ultrasound isn’t among the most versatile imaging modalities in healthcare today. With improved imaging quality and ease of use, these units can routinely be found in departments across hospitals and clinics.
April 17, 2009 - GE Healthcare announced the company has signed a research agreement with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, to establish an alliance in medical research in area of Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
April 17, 2009 - National Interest Security Company (NISC) and InSite One have created a partnership to extend InSite One products and services to healthcare facilities in the federal market.
April 16, 2009- Royal Philips Electronics launched a new product bundle that combines the Philips Digital Voice Tracer 660 (DVT 660) recording device and the voice recorder edition of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, a speech recognition program from Nuance Communications.
April 16, 2009 – iCAD Inc. today announced it has received 510(k) clearance for PrecisionPoint, the company’s interventional planning solution for breast MRI that can make biopsies easier and faster. PrecisionPoint will be offered as an integrated module within the company’s CADvue breast MRI image review software.
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April 16, 2009 - The ACR and RBMA have developed best practice guidelines for third-party payors, managed care organizations (MCOs), radiology benefit managers (RBMs), and imaging providers for use when implementing or evaluating a Radiology Benefits Management Program (RBMP).
April 15, 2009 – IASIS Healthcare LLC, a 16-hospital system headquartered in Franklin, TN, plans to help improve patient care and physician satisfaction with the deployment of a new PACS from McKesson.
April 16, 2009 – In a policy statement released today, The European Association of Urology (EAU) said current data on prostate cancer is insufficient to recommend the adoption of population screening for prostate cancer as a public health policy due to the large over-treatment effect.
April 16, 2009 - Varian Medical Systems Inc. is featuring its line of PaxScan flat panel X-ray image detectors for digital radiography (DR) at the China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF 2009) meeting in Shenzhen, China, April 18-21, 2009. Varian will also showcase its full range of X-ray tubes for fluoroscopy, angiography, cardiology and cone-beam CT imaging.
April 15, 2009 - The results of the Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetes (DIAD) study, released in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) screening for coronary artery disease (CAD) in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes did not result in a significant reduction in the rate of heart attacks and death compared to
April 15, 2009 - CIVCO Medical Solutions released a disposable endocavity needle guidance system for use with ZONARE’s E9-4 transducer.
BRIT Systems’ BRIT Speak is a stand-alone dictation, transcription, report distribution and optional voice recognition solution that uses the latest Web technologies. BRIT Speak provides real-time workflow across a virtual environment with minimal user intervention and is available with the company’s Roentgen RIS and Roentgen Works remote reading solution.
Konica Minolta Medical Imaging’s FlexDR is an upright, flat panel digital radiography system. The FDA-cleared FlexDR features an Amorphous Silicon (aSi) and Cesium Iodide (CsI) receptor that boasts ultrahigh detective quantum efficiency (DQE) for high-quality images even with minimum X-ray exposure. The product will be available for sale in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2009.
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