September 29, 2010 — Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Salisbury, N.C., has installed a new dual-detector digital imaging system incorporating the Canon CXDI-40G and CXDI-50G digital receptors. The college is an open-door, comprehensive learning-centered institution of higher education serving the citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus counties.

September 29, 2010 – Wheatland Memorial Healthcare, Harlowton, Mont., is the latest critical access hospital to turn its Diagnostic Imaging Department into a state-of-the-art digital facility with new Web-based picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) technology.

September 29, 2010 — DatCard Systems Inc., a global supplier of DICOM digital distribution systems, recently filed suit against PacsGear Inc. and Data Distributing Inc. to prevent the alleged infringement of DatCard’s medical disc publishing patent portfolio. The lawsuits were filed Aug. 24 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

September 29, 2010 — Quinnipiac University has selected a new picture archiving and communications system (PACS) for its innovative diagnostic imaging educational center, which provides students in a wide range of imaging-related medical specialties with hands-on experience using a full suite of state-of-the-art technology.

September 29, 2010 — In a prospective study published in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, researchers at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Boca Raton, Fla., showed that positron emission mammography (PEM) and breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) had a comparably high ability to detect cancerous lesions.

September 28, 2010 – Three new customers have joined a growing list of hospitals, imaging centers and clinics that use the Clarity CT solution to enable material reductions in the medical radiation exposed to patients. They are: Watson Clinic of Lakeland, Fla.; Zilkha Radiology of East Islip, N.Y., and Inova Alexandria Hospital of Alexandria, Va.

September 28, 2010 — SAVI Sisters, a program designed to provide education about breast cancer treatment options, primarily through social networking, has been launched.


September 28, 2010 — An agreement has been reached to begin joint development of a world-first novel proton beam therapy (PBT) system for cancer treatment under Japan’s FIRST program. Treatment will start in 2014.

September 28, 2010 — A new digital imaging system combine both radiographic fluoroscopy (RF) and digital radiography (DR) on one console.

September 28, 2010 — In one of the first studies to focus exclusively on the outcomes after treatment for patients with high-risk prostate cancer, researchers have found that surgery provides high survival rates.

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