October 3, 2014 — Esaote North America announced that its new MyLab Gamma ultrasound system has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is now available for sale in the United States.


The trend in breast cancer treatment these days is all about precision, with the twin goals of controlling the cancer better and reducing side effects. Great advances have been made in radiation delivery methods that make it possible to more precisely target the tumor bed, plus a small margin around it where the cancer would be most likely to recur. By tightly focusing on these areas alone, radiation oncologists can minimize exposure to critical healthy tissue and structures such as the heart and lungs. Less damage to healthy tissue also means better cosmetic outcomes. 

Dolbey’s Fusion SpeechEMR front-end speech recognition received the highest overall rating by healthcare providers, according to a new KLAS report on speech recognition titled “Front-End Speech Recognition 2014: Functionality Doesn’t Trump Physician Resistance.”


Patient radiation dose safety has become the latest buzzword. With the emerging regulations and mandates, technologies and best practices, the radiation safety information pool has become convoluted with disparate and conflicting information. With numerous opinions and interpretations on radiation safety trends, best practices, regulation updates and studies, healthcare providers as well as the general public are experiencing difficulties filtering the true message in managing patient radiation dose away from the industry noise. Healthcare providers are constantly reviewing and assessing regulations, best imaging processes and the emerging technologies — including automated dose management systems and dose management computed tomography (CT) devices — promising to decrease or eliminate the chance of another sentinel event.

CIRS released the MRI-Linac Dynamic Phantom at the AAPM Annual meeting in Austin. T


October 3, 2014 — The recent approval of GE Healthcare’s SenoClaire by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will end Hologic’s monopoly of the U.S. digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) market, offering greater choice for hospitals and patients, according to an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData.

MRI-Linac Dynamic Phantom

Carestream’s Vue RIS (radiology information systems) is one of the first to achieve certification for Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use capabilities. 


Over the past few years, iterative reconstruction has emerged as an alternative to filtered back projection with its ability to improve the image quality of computed tomography (CT) images. Although the clinical use of iterative reconstruction techniques in CT is rather new, U. Joseph Schoepf, M.D., professor of radiology, medicine and pediatrics, and director of the division of cardiovascular imaging at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, said the technology itself has been around almost as long as CT imaging. “When the first CT scanner was conceived by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield — the inventor of CT — and the first system was actually put together by EMI, iterative reconstruction was the proposed reconstruction method for computed tomography,” he explained. 

October 3, 2014 — Carestream will announce its new Clinical Data Collaboration platform that goes beyond the capabilities offered by a vendor-neutral archive (VNA). This new platform helps equip those responsible for managing, providing, receiving and reimbursing care with the ability to share and manage clinical data in ways that can help reduce costs and improve service delivery.

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