GE and the PGA Tour have announced the addition of a new portable ultrasound system to the Visionworks Mobile Health & Fitness Trailers on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour. 

The first clinical mARC treatment, planned with RaySearch’s treatment planning system RayStation, has been delivered at Europe Hospitals in Brussels, Belgium.

Kubtec, a leader in innovation for digital specimen radiography, announced  its development of TomoView, a groundbreaking tomosynthesis technology for digital specimen radiography of excised breast tissue. The company’s patent-pending technology allows for multi-planar x-ray imaging for thorough margin analysis of excised breast tissue and is the core foundation on which Kubtec’s upcoming system release, MOZART, is based.

SIIM 2014: The 2014 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) will take place May 15-17, 2014, at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif. The meeting promises to deliver leading-edge content and practical solutions for the imaging informatics challenges the industry is currently facing. Meeting highlights will include cutting-edge healthcare IT, IIP career development, peer-to-peer learning, interactive sessions, daily virtual sessions, industry highlights and more.

Analogic Corp. has entered into a distribution agreement with D&K Technologies, developer of the BioJet Solution, a revolutionary 3-D magnetic resonance imagining (MRI) transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) fusion technology.

May 2, 2014 — The University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht and Quirem Medical, both in the Netherlands, announced they will be working closely together to maximize the benefits of using holmium microspheres to treat liver cancer patients worldwide. The unique properties of holmium microspheres will enable effective treatment planning and dosimetry in treatment evaluation, thereby further improving the results of patients who undergo radioembolization.

Anxiety regarding inconclusive test results is real and is only natural. Experts in breast imaging (researchers and clinicians) continue to work to reduce the number of false-positive exams that patients experience and ensure that follow-up exams are as minimally invasive as possible.

The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) exhibited at the American College of Physicians’ (ACP) Internal Medicine 2014 meeting in early April as part of the society’s efforts to spread the word about the appropriate use of cardiac imaging tests.


May 2, 2014 — A new study has found that children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have disrupted connections between different areas of the brain that are evident on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rfMRI). The results of this research are published online in the journal Radiology.


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