Colorado Cancer Experts Japan U.S. Carbon-ion Radiotherapy Center

Colorado cancer researchers and medical doctors on announced they are launching a $200,000 feasibility study as a key step to building the nation’s first carbon-ion radiotherapy research and treatment facility in Aurora, where they and colleagues hope to investigate and provide to patients leading-edge radiation therapy that is effective against the deadliest cancers and now is available only in Europe and Japan.

The RSNA FastPass is produced by Imaging Technology News (ITN), and is designed as a guide to showcase the products and technology that vendors are highlighting at the show. Use it as a tool to better navigate the vast technical exhibit floor and find what you are looking for. The RSNA microsite can be found at www.itnonline.com/rsna-fastpass. 

Intel-GE Care Innovations Guide


Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are studying the next generation of screening and diagnostic devices, some of which borrow from the world of entertainment. Soon, three-dimensional images in actual 3-D might help your doctor find hidden tumors and better diagnose cancers, thanks to the regulatory work being done by a team at FDA’s Division of Imaging, Diagnostics, and Software Reliability.
Normal Lungs

An editorial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Woolf et al) this week suggesting against Medicare coverage of computed tomography (CT) screening in seniors at high risk for lung cancer ignores available evidence, relies on unsubstantiated or ambiguous claims, and fails to accurately portray the current state of CT lung cancer screening, according to the American College of Radiology and the Lung Cancer Alliance.

October 14, 2014 — McKesson Radiology Mammography Plus version 2.0 offers users unrestricted access to multimodality breast imaging with all the advantages of a robust picture archiving and communications system (PACS).

McKesson Radiology Mammography Plus

October 14, 2014 — PenRad Technologies Inc. announced its partnership with Clinithink to refine the process of clinical documentation for radiologists in real time. PenRad is embedding Clinithink’s CLiX CNLP (clinical natural language processing) platform into its MIS (mammography information system) solution to increase productivity, accuracy and efficiency of the mammography reporting workflow for its existing install base.

Although the highly saturated picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) segment is slowing growth in the U.S. imaging informatics market, a few niche areas are advancing forming new growth areas. 

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