My least favorite celebration of the year ended October 31 without (real) bloodshed and with all of my body parts, and those of everyone I know, intact. Radiologists seeking to join in could do so with specialty merchandise.

November 1, 2011 — iCAD Inc. announced it has entered a distribution agreement with Hitachi Medical Systems. With this agreement, iCAD’s SpectraLook with PrecisionPoint image analysis solution for breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) will be available for purchase with Hitachi’s Oasis and Echelon MRI systems. SpectraLook will help radiologists distinguish potential cancers in the breast as part of their overall analysis of MRI studies and streamline the planning and performance of MRI-guided percutaneous breast biopsies.

November 1, 2011 — Royal Philips Electronics introduced MicroDose Mammography, a full-field digital mammography (FFDM) solution, on Monday. The system offers a lower radiation dose, as compared with other FFDM systems, without compromising image quality.

MIMcloud is a secure, Internet-based medical image service that provides an easily accessible resource for storing, sharing, and viewing data off-site. Users can share images with referring physicians, partner institutions and patients.

MIM Software’s Mobile MIM is the first diagnostic imaging app available for the iPhone and iPad and provides imaging professionals a portable solution away from their workstations. Local and cloud-based solutions are available for MIM’s industry leading tools for multi-modality image review, fusion and contouring. The software allows clinicians to connect and share anytime and anywhere.

Philips TruFlight Select is its first economical positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) system equipped premium time-of-flight (TOF) technology, Astonish TF.  Competitive systems with similar performance can cost up to $500,000 more than the TruFlight Select PET/CT.

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