Kubtec announced the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has issued Patent No. 14/503,130 for the technology incorporated into the Mozart System with TomoSpec Technology. This patent recognizes that the Mozart System with TomoSpec Technology, the world’s first portable 3-D Digital Specimen Tomosynthesis Imaging System, is unique in its field.

Accuray Incorporated has received a multi-system order from 21st Century Oncology for one CyberKnife M6 and four TomoHDA Systems. These are the latest generation CyberKnife and TomoTherapy Systems, and are used worldwide to provide extremely precise radiation treatments for cancerous and non-cancerous tumors throughout the body. The TomoTherapy Systems will replace conventional linear accelerators in single vault freestanding centers, reinforcing the TomoTherapy's value as a mainstream radiation therapy device. Accuray booked the order in its first fiscal quarter of 2016.

Merge Healthcare Incorporated was recently recognized as a top vendor in the KLAS 2015 Midterm Performance Review: Software & Services report. Merge Healthcare ranked second in the Software Performance by Vendor category, receiving an overall score of 81.9.

Ascendian Healthcare Consulting, a national healthcare IT consultancy, has partnered with Yuma Regional Medical Center to modernize and optimize the organization’s enterprise imaging information systems and operations for advanced patient care and Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) efficiencies.

A California software company, www.YourScan.org, has put out a call to women who have had to face the difficult diagnosis of breast cancer: Donate your mammogram images to a crowdsourcing campaign and help confirm that a new visual recognition software presents a breakthrough in early detection and distinguishing benign from malignant precursors (DCIS) and lesions through the use of "Lesion Tissue Profiling (LTP)."

C4 Imaging LLC today announced it has been awarded a $1.32 Million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research ("SBIR") grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health ("NIH"). Entitled "Multi-Modality MRI/CT Markers for Improved Assessment of Prostate Cancer," the Phase II SBIR award will help fund the development of an enhanced multi-modality imaging marker based on C4 Imaging's commercially available Sirius MRI Marker.

A study published online Aug. 24 by the journal Pediatrics finds a significant decrease in the use of computed tomography (CT) scans at children's hospitals for 10 common childhood diagnoses including seizure, concussion, appendectomy and upper respiratory tract infection.

Carilion Clinic, headquartered in Roanoke, Va., consists of seven hospitals and provides health care services for one million people in western Virginia. "Every decision we make at Carilion comes down to how it will positively impact our patients and their care," said Evelyn Garcia, M.D., chair of Carilion's radiology department. "With the Sectra solution, we are looking forward to increased efficiency, better access to clinical tools and better integration across our system. And that's just the beginning."

Members of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists can now access the new ASRT Communities, an updated online social network that allows radiologic technologists to exchange ideas, share documents and participate in practice-related discussions.

Designed specifically for ASRT’s 153,000 members, the mobile-friendly social platform features a wide variety of networking and educational functions including a searchable ASRT member directory, collaborative discussion forums and a library of practice-related documents and shared files.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) recently published a statement on its website confirming that log file measurement based QA satisfies radiation oncology practice accreditation requirements for pre-treatment dose delivery verification. The ACR states that the log file method meets the requirements of the Practice Parameters for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) “since a physical measurement of the delivery is performed and, through three-dimensional analysis, the entire delivered distribution is compared to the planned one.”

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