September 23, 2009 - After offering an amendment to close the in-office ancillary services exception for advanced medical imaging under the Stark law during the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s continued markup of H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) withdrew the offer.

September 23, 2009 – Virtual Radiologic Corp., a leading global provider of teleradiology services, will exhibit at the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) Critical Access Hospital Conference to be held October 7-9, 2009 in Portland, Ore.

September 23, 2009 - First lady Michelle Obama urged women to push for health reform, saying that President Obama's plan would help achieve "true equality" for women, in a speech at a private event last Friday.

The Naviscan PEM scanner is an optimized PET scanner designed to provide unprecedented metabolic visualization of small body parts. Through a unique combination of gentle immobilization, advanced photonics and image processing, the scanner provides 3-D tomographic images with resolution down to 2 mm.

Certegra’s Connect.PACS™ application makes available new and more complete information to better inform decision making. The application instantly integrates each patient’s CT contrast injection record with the associated clinical image sets stored in PACS. Connect.PACS automates recordkeeping, facilitates Joint Commission compliance and reduces manual records discrepancies.

P3T products automate protocol personalization and consistently enable improved contrast enhancement for higher quality images for CT angiography and abdominal studies. P3T Cardiac enhances CT angiography of cardiac structures, coronary arteries, chambers of the heart, thoracic and abdominal aorta, and pulmonary vasculature for pulmonary embolism (PE) studies.

The ACCUVIX V20 ‘Prestige’ by MEDISON, combines a 19-inch flat-panel display, set on an articulating arm for operator convenience and high-resolution images. The ‘Prestige’ ultrasound imaging system represents the pinnacle of more than a decade of technological advancement in 3D/4D ultrasound imaging at MEDISON.

With 165 new enhancements, MedInformatix Version 7.0 RIS is sure to satisfy any Radiologists’ need for productivity. The MedInformatix RIS Interfaces to your choice of PACS system, and a wide range of HIS and Lab Systems through HL7, giving you the freedom to choose the product that best fit your needs.

LEAD Technologies, Inc. is the publisher of LEADTOOLS, imaging components for developers.

September 23, 2009 - At the 2009 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) in Montreal, Royal Philips Electronics and Bruker BioSpin, a division of Bruker Corp., today announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the development of magnetic particle imaging (MPI) scanners, a new imaging technology, for the preclinical market.

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