November 16, 2009 - Chair of the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors James H. Thrall, M.D., FACR, said today he is deeply concerned about U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) mammography recommendations, which would severely limit screening for breast cancer.

November 16, 2009 - Leica Microsystems has developed the new Leica DFC345 FX digital camera to provide low light fluorescence signals in live cell experiments.

Along with high sensitivity and high resolution, the camera features a fast image capture rate and a broad dynamic range, making it ideal for multidimensional live cell observation under low light conditions.


How do you define the ideal PACS workstation? There is no single answer just multiple solutions. Which one is right for your radiology department? That depends on the specific challenges facing your healthcare facility.

November 13, 2009 - Del Global Technologies Corp. said it reached an agreement in Principle with United Marketing Group (UMG) to transfer certain assets and the product lines of Del Medical Imaging from Del Global to UMG.

The parties target to have the transaction completed prior to the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) trade show beginning at the end of this month.

November 13, 2009 – A new imaging agent for measuring and monitoring cathepsin B activity associated with disease progression and therapeutic response in vivo will be released at the American Heart Association meeting in Orlando this weekend.


November 12, 2009 - Researchers from the University of California, Irvine Medical Center reported that image-guided RapidArc radiotherapy from Varian Medical Systems conformed to the shape and size of a targeted tumor at least as well as dynamic, fixed-beam approaches to IMRT, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) or stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) for treating cancer.

November 12, 2009 - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) will expand coverage of FDG-PET for the initial staging of cervical cancer without previously imposed restrictions.

November 12, 2009 - To achieve the HITECH Act's goal of improving healthcare for patients by making it patient-centered, "information should follow the patient, and... should not get in the way," stressed David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., the national coordinator for health information technology, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, in a public statement issued today.

November 12, 2009 - Carestream Health launched an enhanced vendor-neutral archiving solution that delivers a consolidated data storage and management solution for any data type, regardless of vendor.

November 12, 2009 - Highlighted by a new digital radiography (DR) auto-positioning for auto-stitch feature, Viztek, the comprehensive medical imaging solution provider, debuts a range of enhancements to its Viztek family of DR products at the upcoming Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference.

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