January 26, 2012 — Mevion Medical Systems announced that it has closed a $45 million investment from ProQuest Investments and its existing investors, including Caxton Heath Life Sciences, Venrock and CHL Medical Partners. Mevion is the manufacturer of the Mevion S250 proton therapy system. The capital will be used to accelerate the manufacturing and worldwide deployment of the Mevion S250.

January 26, 2012 — Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation announced the acquisition of K&S Röntgenwerk Bochum, a provider of X-ray generators for medical diagnostic applications, based in Bochum, Germany.

January 26, 2012 — High-quality, affordable digital X-ray images in about four seconds— with wireless communication that allows clinicians to immediately view images from any location. This is the driving force behind the rapid adoption of Carestream Health’s flexible, wireless digital radiography X-ray (DRX) detectors.

January 25, 2012 — Avreo announced that KLAS, an independently owned and operated healthcare research organization, has ranked Avreo interWORKS first in community radiology information systems (RIS) in its 2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report.

January 25, 2012 — InSightec Ltd. announced that it has submitted a premarket approval application (PMA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ExAblate treatment of pain palliation of bone metastases.

January 25, 2012 — To provide patient-friendly magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., has installed a Vantage Titan 1.5T MR system from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. the 1,200th Vantage MR installed worldwide.

January 25, 2012 — A 65-year-old breast cancer patient has become the first person in India to be treated using the fast and precise TrueBeam radiotherapy treatment system from Varian Medical Systems.

January 25, 2012 — Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) helps surgeons make more informed decisions about nerve-sparing procedures in men with prostate cancer, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

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