June 3, 2011 – At the Society of Imaging Informatics Management (SIIM) meeting, Novarad introduced NovaCardio, a fully integrated cardiac picture archiving and communications system (CPACS) image and information management system. It offers fast and efficient clinical workflow, powerful features and is accessible anywhere viewing and reporting.

June 3, 2011 - The commercial release of the ClearCanvas PACS Team Edition, follows the April release of the company's first commercial radiology workstation product. This picture archiving and communications system (PACS) release signifies the first commercial version of their DICOM ImageServer software, previously only offered as an open-source application.

June 2, 2011 – Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned women not to substitute breast thermography for mammography to screen for breast cancer. The FDA said some healthcare providers are promoting breast thermography on their websites and claiming it is superior to mammography as a screening method for breast cancer, because it does not require radiation exposure or breast compression.

June 2, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week is warning medical professionals and U.S. medical device vendors to beware of possible safety concerns and radioactive contamination of medical devices and components coming from Japan.

May 31, 2011 - Elekta and ScandiDos AB have entered into a non-exclusive global agreement to distribute ScandiDos's Delta4PT quality assurance (QA) tool. Delta4PT can be used with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) techniques to provide complete pre-treatment QA that ensures that the dose prescribed in treatment plans is delivered accurately and safely to patients.

May 31, 2011—UltraSPECT, a provider of nuclear medicine (NM) image reconstruction technology that reduces radiopharmaceutical dose and acquisition time, announces a multi-year distribution agreement with nuclear pharmacy network UPPI LLC for exclusive leasing and/or non-exclusive sale of UltraSPECT’s cardiac and bone imaging applications in the United States.

May 31, 2011 - Intelerad Medical Systems will demonstrate the new InteleConnect Referring Physician Portal, a brandable, browser-based, zero-download solution for communicating radiology results and building customer loyalty.

May 31, 2011 – Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may provide an early and objective indicator of autism, according to researchers at Columbia University in New York City, who used the technique to document language impairment in autistic children. Results of their study appear online and in the August issue of Radiology.

May 26, 2011 - With the deficiencies in knowledge of tuberculosis--as well as in the practices, programs and strategies used to combat the disease and co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – the spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis poses a major problem for the health care community. Research in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, however, shows that the use of 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) scans can help to determine earlier if treatment for tuberculosis is working or if the disease is MDR.

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