October 27, 2009 - Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. will unveil a new laptop ultrasound system at this year’s Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) annual meeting. The new Viamo (works-in progress) is the industry’s “no compromise” laptop ultrasound system with advanced radiology capabilities that are not available on hand carried systems.

The Aquilion CX is a next generation 64-detector row CT system. The Aquilion CX provides fast reconstruction times, creating up to 28 images per second. It also includes Quantum Advantage detector technology and a patient couch accommodating up to 660 lbs.

October 22, 2009 - Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. will showcase at RSNA 2009 the capabilities of the Aquilion ONE, its dynamic volume CT system, including the ability to save crucial time in emergency departments and image pediatric patients with reduced sedation and radiation.

October 26, 2009 - Vital Images Inc., an advanced visualization and analysis software, and Sectra, an IT and medical-technology companies, announced that Sectra will offer Vital Images' Vitrea Enterprise Suite as an additional option integrated with Sectra’s PACS platform.

October 22, 2009 - Tomotherapy Inc. has extended its suite of advanced radiation therapy solutions with the addition of the TomoHD treatment system, an efficient, all-purpose new system designed to make it easier for any radiation oncology department to adopt TomoTherapy technology for its patient population.

October 22, 2009 - FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA is pleased to announce that the American College of Radiology (ACR), Reston, VA, has implemented the company’s Synapse™ PACS® at its multi-million dollar ACR Education Center.

October 22, 2009 - Sectra, a Swedish IT and medical-techology company, signed a distribution agreement with Attieh Medico, a leading medical technology company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to distribute Sectra’s medical systems in Saudi Arabia.

The agreement includes all of Sectra’s products within medical systems, including Sectra MicroDose Mammography and Sectra PACS.

October 22, 2009 - The Senate vote yesterday to permanently repeal Medicare's “flawed” Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, in a Motion to Proceed to S. 1776, failed to garner enough support in the Senate yesterday.

October 21, 2009 - GE Healthcare has entered into an agreement to purchase certain assets of ONI Medical Systems, Inc., expanding GE Healthcare's Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) capabilities, offering healthcare professionals a broader range of MRI products to enable more cost-effective imaging procedures in a variety of patient care settings. Financial terms were not disclosed.

October 21, 2009 – ScImage, a leading enterprise imaging and informatics company, received a Class II Medical Devices Licence from Health Canada, which clears ScImage’s Enterprise Imaging Solution, PicomEnterprise, for distribution in Canada.

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