September 8, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare and SurgiVision Inc. today announced an agreement for the codevelopment and commercialization of a real-time magnetic resonance image (MRI)-guided cardiac electrophysiology (EP) system.

September 8, 2009 - Narrow-band imaging bronchoscopy increases the specificity of bronchoscopic early lung cancer detection and can serve as an alternative detection device, according to research published in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

September 8, 2009 - The Medipattern Corp., an imaging workflow software developer, announced last week it closed a non-brokered private placement (the "Offering") of 2,500,000 common shares in the capital stock of the company at $0.20 per common share, for gross proceeds of $500,000.00 to the company.

September 3, 2009 - Sixty-four-detector CT angiography is an accurate imaging method for the detection of aneurysms, and may be used as the initial imaging technique in the diagnostic work-up of patients suspected of having intracranial aneurysms, reported a study published in the September 2009 issue of Radiology.

September 3, 2009 - Hologic Inc. today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) for the MammoSite ML radiation therapy system.

With its multi-lumen design, this new device gives radiation oncologists the ability to shape the radiation dose for typical cases and treat patients who are otherwise not appropriate candidates for traditional brachytherapy.

September 2, 2009 - ASTRO, the American Society for Radiation Oncology, submitted official comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) asking it to stop its proposed changes to the Medicare policies and payment rates for physician services, including radiation oncology, that would cut radiation therapy services by nearly 20 percent.

September 1, 2009 - Evaluation of results of a multicenter study indicates that quantitative evaluation of the progression of volume of extracranial carotid vessel walls is feasible with 1.5T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, despite limitations due to patient motion or habitus.

September 1, 2009 - After the DRA took effect, office MRI volume dropped among radiologists but increased among nonradiologist physicians (NRPs), and payments for MRI to both dropped, but the percentage decrease to radiologists was greater, according to a study published in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).

September 1, 20009 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) clearance for a new portable high-resolution single photo emission computed tomography (SPECT) system, inSPira HD, NeuroLogica Corp. announced today at the XIV World Congress of Neurological Surgery in Boston, Mass.

September 1, 2009 - BioClinica Inc., a clinical trial services provider, today announced that it has acquired the CardioNow unit of Agfa HealthCare to offer streamlined electronic transport solutions to facilitate the blinding, sharing, tracking and archiving of medical images for multi-center clinical trials as part of its suite of imaging services.

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