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.

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Computer-aided detection (CAD) software constitutes a set of algorithms which, using a pattern-recognition technique, aids the radiologist in detecting potentially diseased regions and lesions. It uses clinical images obtained from various imaging modalities. CAD has long since left behind its branding as a mammography tool and has now widened its application areas, becoming a valuable tool for detection and diagnosis in cardiology.

Radiology has always played outside the limelight, its value underappreciated, its contribution not fully recognized. It is in character, therefore, that an organization dedicated to promoting patient welfare through the use of medical imaging – Radiologists Without Borders (RWB) – has received little attention.

March 19, 2012 - WPG Americas Inc. and Identive Group Inc. announced that they have teamed to deliver a near field communications (NFC) solution that allows data from high-end medical imaging devices to be transferred to multiple exam room monitors throughout a provider's office, without cables, wires or additional network investment.

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.

March 16, 2012 — Novelos Therapeutics Inc. announced that the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, a medical oncology research institution, enrolled the first patient in a Phase 1-2 positron emission tomography (PET) imaging trial of I-124-CLR1404 (LIGHT), a cancer-targeted PET imaging agent, in patients with primary or metastatic brain cancer.

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By Dave Fornell, DAIC Editor

With increasing concern about radiation dose levels in radiology, I wanted to share my personal opinion on the subject based on my observations in the industry and first-hand experience as a patient.

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