May 25, 2010 - Whether detecting cancer, heart or brain imaging, renal exams or bone scans, physicians must be able to rely on their positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT/CT) scanners.

May 25, 2010 - May 25, 2010 - Radiologists using decision support helped decrease the percentage of low-yield exams from 5.4 percent of total number of requests to 1.9 percent of total requests, according to a study appearing in the June issue of Radiology.

May 24, 2010 - The provision of 3-D/4-D imaging functionality as an integral component of a picture archive and communication systems (PACS) solution is a recent development in the market.

As PACS vendors add advanced visualization to the package, attendees at the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2010 Annual Meeting, June 3 to 5, in Minneapolis.

May 24, 2010 - Utilizing the iso-osmolar agent Visipaque (iodixanol) could save hospitals $54,617 per 100 patients when compared to the low osmolar nonionic agent iopamidol. This was according to results from a study presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Scientific Sessions in Washington, D.C., held May 19-21.

May 24, 2010 - The legendary rock band DEVO will help celebrate the extension of a digital radiography (DR) product line. The band will return to their recording studios to sing specially-written lyrics to the tune of the band’s famous 1980 “Whip It” song.

May 24, 2010 - To help patients work with their physicians to better understand medical imaging, a new educational resource Web site, myimagingexam.com, tracks the number, frequency and type of diagnostic imaging exams for patients and physicians.

May 21, 2010 – A second company is hoping to gain U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for an optical coherence tomography (OCT) intravascular imaging system. Volcano Corp. said its second generation OCT system is pending FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) approval so it can start its VOILA clinical trial in the United States and South America.

May 20, 2010 - In the future, the majority of health portals, electronic patient health information archives and (ePHI) or electronic medical records (EMR) may support all formats of medical imaging. This will all take place in a vendor-neutral cloud repository.

May 20, 2010 - The International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT held May 19 in San Francisco, Calif., hosted the “Workstation Face-Off,” which challenged providers of advanced 3-D image processing technologies to process and interpret three complex computed tomography (CT) imaging studies.

May 20, 2010 - Seven advanced visualization systems companies competed at the annual “Workstation Challenge” held at the 2010 International Symposium on Multidetector Row CT (ISCT) held in San Francisco, Calif.

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