One of the biggest complaints patients have with MR imaging is the loud acoustic noise. The sound produced by the powerful gradients makes patients uncomfortable. This discomfort results in longer exams and sometimes poor image quality because patients can’t stay still. Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. is helping clinicians improve the MR experience with its Pianissimo technology.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated the radiopharmaceutical Gallium-68 (DOTA0-Phel-Tyr3) octreotide (Ga-68 DOTATOC) as an orphan drug for the management of neuroendocrine tumors (NET).

CIRS will feature multiple products at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting (RSNA 2013) in Chicago.

Cephasonics introduced the small, 2-pound cQuest Dragonfly family of modular 32- or 64-channel, high-performance ultrasound systems, which, along with the included cQLink network communications technology, it will showcase at Medica 2013 Nov. 20-23 in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Medic Vision Imaging Solutions Ltd. and Brit Systems Inc. jointly announced that they have teamed up to offer a new cloud-based service supporting low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening.

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