To provide the best possible patient experience with superb image quality, Indiana University Health Goshen Hospital installed the Vantage Titan 1.5T magnetic resonance (MR) system from Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. Goshen is a part of Indiana’s largest integrated delivery network (IDN) and is utilizing the system in the hospital to support its heart and vascular center to improve patient outcomes with high-quality imaging and a comprehensive suite of patient-focused technologies.

Infinitt North America will showcase a wide variety of radiology solutions at the 2015 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting, Nov. 29-Dec. 4 in Chicago.

Ergonomics plays an important role in the comfort and workflow for sonographers. Ninety percent of sonographers surveyed in 2008 reported some type of injury that they attributed to their work. Learn how Carestream has integrated user feedback to design the new and unique features of the Touch Ultrasound System.

For more information: www.carestream.com

Lexmark announced that North Carolina-based UNC Health Care System (UNC HCS) will deploy the Lexmark Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA), NilRead Enterprise Viewer and PACS Scan Mobile solutions at all of its locations. The trio of solutions will help meet diverse image and content management needs, including clinician workflow requirements and integration with the organization’s core patient electronic medical record (EMR) system. UNC HCS produces approximately 1.3 million DICOM studies annually.

Mirada Medical Ltd, a medical imaging software company, and BTG plc, a global specialist healthcare company, announced a collaboration to develop dosimetry software solutions to optimize radioembolization therapy with TheraSphere.

Brainlab showcased cranial Elements for stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) at the 57th annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO). Dovetailing with the society’s 2015 theme, “Technology Meets Patient Care,” Elements provide indication-specific and intelligent workflows for stereotactic radiosurgery that automate the procedure so caregivers can spend more time with patients and less time on technology.

Mevion Medical Systems announced that Ackerman Cancer Center (ACC) in Jacksonville, Florida, will install a second Mevion S250 Series proton therapy system. ACC began treating cancer patients with its first S250 system in April, and is already treating enough patients to warrant the installation of a second system. ACC achieved the fastest per-room ramp-up in the history of proton therapy, reaching an annualized rate of 350 patients per year, more than 25 percent better than the average U.S. proton therapy center.

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