March 4, 2009 - Physicians will be able to move away from pure surgical approaches and utilize less invasive techniques for the treatment of structural heart disease with the help of cardiovascular ultrasound technology, according to a new guideline document in the March issue of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JASE).
March 4, 2009 - American Medical Sales Inc. secured 20 PACS orders from its distributor network from January through early February of 2009.
March 4, 2009 - 7 Medical Systems LLC, an on-demand picture archiving and communication system (PACS), teleradiology and electronic medical record (EMR) solutions provider, reported it won 11 new contracts at sites located in Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin.
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March 4, 2009 – INFINITT will present Xelis, a new line of clinical imaging tools using volume rendering and other post-processing techniques designed for improved visualization, treatment planning and workflow, which is expecting CE approval in March 2009.
March3, 2009 - Virginia Governor Tim Kaine has signed HB 1939 into law making Virginia the 24th state to license, regulate or recognize the radiologist assistant as a member of the radiology health care team.

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March 3, 2009 - Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) has been proven to be a highly sensitive imaging technique for the diagnosis of invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC), a type of breast cancer that begins in the milk-producing glands (lobules) and then spreads to the surrounding breast tissues, according to a study published in the February 2009 issue of “American Journal of Roentgenology.”
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March 3, 2009 - Barco won a large PACS display order from the Nürnberg Hospital South in Nürnberg, Germany to provide the facility with dedicated color and grayscale display systems for its multiple reading applications, along with a user-friendly solution for online Quality Assurance and asset management.
March 3, 2009 - The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reject the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) recommendations for significant changes to physician reimbursement rates for advanced medical imaging procedures.
March 3, 2009 – NovaRad has released a new system for cardiovascular labs, hospitals and other sites requiring both a PACS and a cardiovascular reporting system (CRS).
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March 3, 2009 - SpectraScience Inc. said today that the FDA has given approval to manufacture its LUMA Cervical Cancer Imaging System in its San Diego facility. The LUMA Cervical Imaging System was developed to significantly improve the detection of high-grade pre-cancerous cervical abnormalities that have the potential to become invasive cancer.
March 3, 2009 - For the third quarter, the Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra’s net sales rose 20 percent to SEK 226.1 million compared with SEK 189.3 million the year-earlier period. Profit after financial net increased 10 percent to SEK 15.8 million (14.4), corresponding to a profit margin of 7 percent. Order bookings amounted to SEK 217.0 million (458.9).
March 3, 2009 – Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center (Trumbull, CT) selected the upright REGIUS 370 Digital Radiography and Nano CR solutions by Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA to convert from analog to digital imaging.
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March 3, 2009 - Merge Healthcare just released eFilm Workstation 3.1, which adds Windows Vista support, has reportedly faster load times and accelerated workflow communication in its diagnostic review software. eFilm Workstation is most commonly used as a diagnostic workstation, technologist review station, remote reading terminal, image distribution mechanism and disaster recovery device.
March 3, 2009 - Merge Healthcare today released its eFilm Workstation 3.1, which adds Windows Vista support, reportedly faster load times and accelerated workflow communication to the popular diagnostic review software.
A National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP) report stated that the U.S. population is now exposed to seven times more radiation each year from medical imaging exams than in 1980.
At ECR 2009, Visage Imaging showcased its Visage CS 3.1, 3D software, which the company says is designed for speed. Data from virtually all modalities can be viewed and processed, including CT and MR angiography, cardiac CT and PET-CT. With version 3.1, Visage CS introduces a whole set of improvements, and features, including: - Multiple new 2D and 3D ROI types
Pie Medical Imaging’s FDA-cleared cardiac magnetic resonance quantitative analysis software, CAAS MRV Magnetic Resonance Ventricular analysis) software reportedly enables cardiologists and radiologists to perform easy and fast functional analysis on cine-magnetic resonance images for cardiac MRI studies.
ScImage's reporting module PICOM Structured Reportware (PicomSR) for echocardiography combines structured reporting elements along with voice recognition, delivering a pre-populated report that the technician can start by importing elements such as procedure descriptions, indications, measurements, observations during procedure and simple findings from the modality.
March 2, 2009 - Accuray Inc. said today that its CyberKnife lung cancer treatments experienced significant growth in 2008.
March 2, 2009 - Traxtal Inc. said it will feature its newly designed system cart for the PercuNav interventional imaging and navigation system for soft tissue at the Society of Interventional Radiology's (SIR 2009) Annual Scientific Meeting, March 7-12, in San Diego, CA.