March 20, 2012 - CoActiv Medical, the PACS, RIS and cloud-based digital archiving innovator, announces a distribution agreement with Capital X-Ray (CXR) (Tallassee, Ala.), the largest independent x-ray dealer in the Southeast. Under the new agreement, CXR will distribute the complete CoActiv product line in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Florida panhandle.

March 19, 2012 -- The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the United Kingdom's national measurement institute, recently purchased a Flexitron afterloader from Nucletron, an Elekta company. NPL will continue to offer its brachytherapy calibration service with the new afterloader and ensure source calibrations in radiotherapy centers remain traceable to NPL's primary standard.

March 19, 2012 - Radisphere announced availability of its next “Quality Update” piece as part of its “The Final Read on Quality” initiative. In the piece titled “Preventing Wrong Events in Radiology,” now available at www.radisphere.net/ FinalReadonQuality, the case is made for utilizing the universal protocol in radiology to help prevent errors.