January 30, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare is highlighting its latest ultrasound solutions for obstetrics at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM 2009) this week in San Diego, featuring knowledge-based workflow and 4D applications that increase diagnostic confidence and improve clinical workflow.
January 30, 2009 – Imaging Dynamics Company Ltd (IDC) said it has been awarded a contract to supply 300 units of its proprietary CCD-based DR imaging technology to the China Charity Federation over the next 12 to 18 months.
January 29, 2009 – The Centricity Business suite has been chosen by Scott & White Healthcare, Temple, TX, ) in which Scott & White will expand implement the Centricity Business Patient Access, Physician Revenue Cycle Management and Business Intelligence solutions across their enterprise to support their focus on patient satisfaction and customer service, patient access, clinical integration, pro
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January 29, 2009 - Larynx cancer patients treated with alternating cycles of chemotherapy and radiation have similar outcomes to patients treated with chemotherapy followed by radiation, according to data from a randomized controlled trial in the Jan. 27 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
January 29, 2009 - GE Healthcare and InSightec announced that new data show that the noninvasive ExAblate 2000 Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) system is more cost-effective than myomectomy or Uterine Artery Embollization (UAE), according to a study that appears in the January 2009 issue (Vol. 25, Issue 1) of The International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care.
January 29, 2009 - Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Group has signed an agreement with Covidien to develop technology for the manufacture of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), the parent isotope of technetium-99m (Tc-99m), the most widely used radioisotope in the world for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine procedures.
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January 29, 2009 - Ochsner Health System of New Orleans has deployed Agfa Healthcare’s IMPAX Data Center for image management and storage across its seven hospitals and 35 clinics.
January 29, 2009 - CIVCO Medical Solutions said they have become the exclusive distributor of Dosimetry Check IGQA, a portal imager-based 3D absolute patient dosimetry system. Dosimetry Check works with any integrating EPID and any treatment planning system to provide a volumetric measurement for IMRT QA. This reportedly includes IMAT delivery techniques such as RapidArc or VMAT.
January 29, 2009 - GE Healthcare's Vascular Ultrasound group and The Medipattern Corp. said they are collaborating on the creation of Ultrasound-based Vascular Imaging Quantification Tools (Vascular iQ).
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January 28, 2009 - Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University say that remarkable new tools, which spotlight individual cellular molecules, are helping advance biomedical research. They have revealed that these new tools are photoactivatable fluorescent proteins (PAFPs) and other advanced fluorescent proteins (FPs).
January 28, 2009 - Philips is leading a major new European project, the SonoDrugs project, which uses focused ultrasound pulses and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to deliver and track therapeutic drugs used to treat cancer and cardiovascular disease, in hopes of maximizing efficiency and minimizing side effects.
January 28, 2009 – For the 14th straight quarter, Konica Minolta Medical Imaging was named the top rated CR vendor in MD Buyline's Computed Radiography (CR) User Satisfaction Report for the fourth quarter of 2008, said Konica Minolta.
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January 28, 2009 - GE Healthcare said today that it has sponsored the development of newly validated procedure-based protocols to lower CT radiation dose in children; these protocols can now be downloaded from its Web site, free of charge.
January 28, 2009 – Australian-based Pro Medicus Limited said today it has acquired Visage Imaging, a digital imaging and advanced 3D visualization technology based in Carlsbad, CA.
January 28, 2009 - With the demand for portable and PC-based ultrasound units experiencing exponential growth, the Eastern European market currently offers lucrative opportunities to an increasing number of ultrasound vendors who are looking to compete in mid- and low-end market segments, according to Frost & Sullivan’s report, Eastern European Market for Ultrasound.
January 28, 2009 - TomoTherapy Inc. and RaySearch Laboratories AB have received 510(k) clearance for SharePlan, a new software solution that they are collaborating on.
January 28, 2009 - A combination of MRI and ultrasound is able to measure the metabolism rates of cancer cells, according to research on a new technique developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University.
January 27, 2009 - Children’s Hospital Boston, MA, is offering a new therapy that uses radioiodine labeled metaiodobenzylguanidine (I-131 MIBG) to treat patients with relapsed neuroblastoma, marking the first time this therapy is being used in the New England region.
January 27, 2009 - Utilization of imaging in the private office setting increased by 63 percent, according to a study that which will appear in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).
January 27, 2009 – Varian Medical Systems and BrainLAB will showcase the Novalis Tx platform, performing image-guided radiosurgery at the 45th Annual Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Meeting in San Francisco, CA. The goal of the demonstration is to treat tumors of the lung, as well as of the brain, spine, liver and prostate, without making a single incision.
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