In 1905, a small group of doctors agreed to work together to provide coordinated radiology services at Bridgeport Hospital in Connecticut. That marked the start of Advanced Radiology Consultants LLC, which today provides the highest-quality general radiology, fluoroscopy, mammography, ultrasound, MRI, CT scan and nuclear medicine services.

January 27, 2012 — Carestream Health will be showing several new technologies at the 2012 meeting of the Healthcare Informatics Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

January 26, 2012 — Novarad continued global growth during 2011 by completing 127 installations for new contracts. Of these installations, 15 percent were new international contracts.

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.

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