August 30, 2010 - A private mammography clinic in Germany launched the first German mobile screening unit. By offering mobile screening, , Gemeinschaftspraxis für Diagnostische Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin can improve its participation rates as women need to spend less time and cost in transit when attending their screening examinations.

August 30, 2010 – An enhanced version of the Philips iE33 xMatrix cardiac ultrasound system features a new ergonomic transducer for more efficient adult echocardiograms.

August 30, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted clearance for a catheter guidance system.

August 30, 2010 – A portfolio of advanced quantification solutions for 2-D and 4-D ultrasound imaging were added to ScImage’s PicomEnterprise picture archiving and communications system (PACS). It now directly integrates TomTec’s portfolio of echo quantification solutions.

August 30, 2010 – A strategic alliance has been launched to create New York Radiology Alliance. It will offer access to subspecialists, next-generation technology, clinical data benchmarking and the shared expertise of nearly 200 radiologists nationwide to enhance the quality and efficiency of imaging services for patients and providers in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area.

August 23, 2010 — The Intego positron emission tomography (PET) infusion system is now listed with Novation LLC, one of the largest healthcare supply contracting companies in the United States. Novation is the first supply contracting company to list Intego and the first to list any automated infusion system for molecular imaging. Novation serves the purchasing needs of nearly 25,000 healthcar

August 30, 2010 — In collaboration with Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center and the Davis Heart and Lung Institute of The Ohio State University, GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, was awarded $1 million for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and devices for the “Pediatrics Population” project.

For better or worse, healthcare reform has arrived, and with it comes a contentious debate about the certification of electronic medical records (EMR) systems for meaningful use. Managing large medical image files has long been a challenge even within radiology, yet diagnostic data would seem essential to a physician’s treatment of disease.

PET/MRI: The Modality of Choice?

In scientific research, sometimes simply connecting two points with a line is enough to paint the big picture. When researchers first identified the biomarker amyloid beta-protein for Alzheimer’s disease by using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, they gained a new perspective on how to treat the disease.

Editor's Note: This article is an introduction to the ultrasound scanning systems comparison chart that ran in the September 2010 issue of Imaging Technology News. The chart can be found under the comparison chart tab at the top of the page.
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