Significant national and international momentum is building to include a proton therapy unit as part of the planned expansion of SAHMRI, South Australia’s Health and Medical Research Institute. It would be the first facility in the Southern Hemisphere to deliver proton therapy.

Varian Medical Systems has added a new cloud-based toolkit to the company's OncoPeer interactive online forum, making development tools available for research that has the potential to lead to next-generation cancer treatment technologies.

Men with relatively unaggressive prostate tumors whose disease is carefully monitored by urologists are unlikely to develop metastatic prostate cancer or die of their cancers, according to a study from the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins.

DOPPLER-CIP trial, ESC 2015, heart failure, predictor, small left ventricle, University of Leuven

September 2, 2015 — Findings presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2015 indicate that a small left ventricle with thick walls is the strongest predictor of morphologic remodeling in chronic ischemic heart disease patients. This morphologic remodeling — detected via stress imaging tests — is generally considered a first step toward heart failure.

Based on its recent analysis of the cardiovascular image management market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Pie Medical Imaging (PMI) with the 2015 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership.

University of Maryland Medicine and its Center for Metabolic Imaging and Image-Guided Therapeutics (CMIT) has begun to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided focused ultrasound on a deep structure within the brain related to Parkinson’s disease.

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging announced the new Sigma II CS-7s computed radiography (CR) system, designed to deliver enterprise level imaging to community hospitals, clinics and private practices.

The American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO’s) 57th annual meeting will be held at the Henry B. González Convention Center, Oct.18-21, 2015, in San Antonio.

Researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have found that even first-episode psychotic patients process information differently from a control group.

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