The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Research and Education (R&E) Foundation will fund 94 grants totaling $3.6 million in 2014, the largest amount ever awarded by the Foundation in a single year.

Imaging Fat of the Bone

In your bones, there is fat. Why? Researchers do not know, but they have theories. How does it get there? They have theories about that, too. Is it the same sort of fat found in muscle? Not sure. Is this bone fat a bad thing? Yes. Researchers think it is. But sometimes, they say, it might not be so bad.

July 15, 2014 — PHS Technologies Group LLC, a unit of PACSHealth LLC and developer of software that monitors patient exposure to ionizing radiation, announced Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences will become a marketing, distribution and hosting partner for its DoseMonitor OnLine software solution.

 USEI announced the release of the CCL650i2, 6MP LED color diagnostic monitor. 

MedXT, an early-stage YCombinator company and cloud platform provider for medical imaging, announced its cost-effective, cloud-based mobile solution. It has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

July 15, 2014 — Sun Nuclear Corp. announced its intended acquisition of Gammex Inc., which became effective July 2. The acquisition combines two complementary product lines within the radiation oncology marketplace, and adds diagnostic radiology quality assurance (QA) capability to Sun Nuclear's therapeutic radiation oncology QA and dosimetry position.

A new study by radiation oncologists at Mayo Clinic comparing the world’s literature on outcomes of proton beam therapy in the treatment of a variety of advanced head and neck cancers of the skull base compared to intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has found that proton beam therapy significantly improved disease free survival and tumor control when compared to IMRT. T

Orfit Industries America, North American subsidiary of Orfit Industries, announced it will showcase the Sagittilt Prone Breast Solution, SBRT Solution and High Precision Hybrid Open Face Mask at the American Association of Physicists (AAPM) Conference in Austin, Texas, July 20-24 (Booth 932).

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