December 31, 2015 —Children’s Hospital Los Angeles announces the availability of the EOS Imaging System, the first technology capable of providing head-to-toe images of patients in both 2-D and 3-D while using up to 90 percent less radiation than X-rays.

December 31, 2015 — Volpara Solutions has gone mobile with the first-ever installation of VolparaDensity in a mobile mammography unit at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. The VolparaDensity installation in Saint Joseph’s mobile mammography unit and their award-winning Breast Care Center, highlights the tremendous growth Volpara Solutions has experienced in 2015. VolparaDensity has been installed on more than 150 digital mammography systems in 2015, surpassing more than 500 systems at customer sites globally.

A new template published by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) standardizes and streamlines the creation of patient-focused plans for long-term cancer survivor care following radiation therapy (RT). 

Patients with prostate cancer are now being treated with minimally invasive, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy, following the October 2015 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authorization for prostate tissue ablation with the Sonablate HIFU device. 

Hitachi Aloka Medical America is proud to partner with AccreditCoach to provide customers assistance with accreditation and add value to their ultrasound purchase. 

Smart Choice MRI, the first MRI provider in the country to offer high quality Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRIs) to patients for an affordable rate of $600 or less, today announced it has raised $6.5 million in growth capital.

Taken by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, the first X-ray produced was of his wife’s hand. Roentgen received the first Nobel Prize in physics for his work, but his discovery of X-ray beams also changed the medical profession far more than that simple black-and-white image might have suggested. 

Brain scans from nearly 200 adolescent boys provide evidence that the brains of compulsive video game players are wired differently. 

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) presented its fourth Alexander R. Margulis Award for Scientific Excellence to Jeffrey W. Prescott, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues, for the article, “The Alzheimer Structural Connectome: Changes in Cortical Network Topology with Increased Amyloid Plaque Burden,” published in Radiology in October 2014.

December 29, 2015 — A rigorous evaluation of survival rates has shown that cancer patients with localized prostate cancer — the most common form of prostate cancer — have a better chance of survival if treated by surgery than by radiotherapy. These findings hold true even after accounting for type of radiation and the aggressiveness of cancer. This is the most robust analysis (meta-analysis) to date of published literature comparing surgery and radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer.

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