September 9, 2009 - The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has received CEO Cancer Gold Standard accreditation, recognizing the organization’s commitment to taking concrete actions to reduce the cancer risk of its employees and their families through screenings, early detection, and healthy changes in lifestyle and in the workplace.

September 9, 2009 - Breast cancer surgeons and radiation oncologists at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange delivered intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) using electron beam radiation.

September 9, 2009 – As September is national peripheral arterial disease (or PAD) awareness month, the Society of Interventional Radiology is highlighting recent medical research addressing the seriousness of PAD available in the libraries for interventional radiologists and primary care physicians.

September 9, 2009 - Covidien, a global provider of healthcare products, announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Power Medical Interventions Inc. (PMI) for an aggregate consideration of approximately $65 million, including assumption of debt.

September 9, 2009 - The Edith Cavell Clinic in Brussels, Belgium, recently installed Siemens’ Artiste system to use with its Elekta MOSAIQ 2.0 and its next generation DICOM-enabled interface. This interface was developed through a collaboration between Elekta Impac Software and Siemens.

September 9, 2009 – MICCAI 2009, the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, is set to take place in London from 20-24 September 2009.

September 9, 2009 - TeraMedica Healthcare Technology, a Milwaukee-based medical informatics company, announced the USPTO granted it the U.S. patent number 7,583,861 for its Evercore Smartstore solution, a clinical data management technology.

September 9, 2009 - The ACR has convened a LI-RADS (Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System) Committee to develop a system for standardized reporting and data collection for CT and MR imaging surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

The production of CT-MR LI-RADS aims to do the following:

September 8, 2009 - Americans recognize the value of medical imaging as a critical component of high-quality healthcare, according to an online survey of 4,426 voters conducted September 4 - 8, 2009, by Zogby International and commissioned by Powell Tate.

September 8, 2009 - Positron emission tomography (PET)/computer tomography (CT) scans with the imaging agent choline could detect recurring prostate cancer sooner than conventional imaging technologies in some patients who have had their prostates surgically removed, according to a study published in the September issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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