September 15, 2009 - Positron Corp. announced that the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care of Ontario, Canada is making positron emission tomography (PET) scanning a publicly insured health service available to cancer and cardiac patients under conditions where PET scans have been proven to be clinically effective.

September 15, 2009 – Elekta reported net sales increased by 15 percent, profit after taxes increased to SEK 56 million, and earnings per share after dilution were up to SEK 0.62 in the first three months of 2009/2010.

September 9, 2009 - Integrated backscatter (IBS) images were acquired with transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and 3-dimensional image reconstruction to identify an increase in atrial degeneration that might predict the occurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF) before left atrium (LA) dilation.


September 14, 2009 - IT and medical-technology company Sectra's net sales for the first quarter increased 13.7 percent to SEK 197.8 million (174.0) compared with the year-earlier period.

September 14, 2009 - Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) enables cardiac morphology with high and isotropic spatial resolution, according to a new study published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 54, No. 13. September 22, 2009.

September 14, 2009 – Adding a new ultrasound platform to its Women’s Imaging line of products, Siemens Healthcare introduces the ACUSON S2000 ultrasound system – Women’s Imaging at the 19th World Congress on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) in Hamburg, Germany.

September 11, 2009 - The University of Virginia Health System plans to open a new MR Guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) Surgery Center, which will be the first facility in the world used exclusively for performing research and providing treatments with MRgFUS.

September 11, 2009 - Building on a successful distribution agreement established over the past three years, Merge Healthcare and Rosslyn Medical, a medical imaging solution provider serving the Russian market, have extended their partnership to expand the portfolio of Merge OEM products available to Rosslyn.


September 11, 2009 - Intelerad Medical Systems, a PACS solution vendor, is rolling out a new shared risk pricing model designed to reduce the upfront capital requirements involved in the purchase of a PACS solution and gives added flexibility in their IntelePACS contract.


September 10, 2009 - Novation LLC, a healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPO), awarded FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA Inc. (Fujifilm), three separate contract extensions for the full line of cassette-based Fuji CR systems (FCR) including the Aspire ClearView for FFDM, the Fuji DR (FDR) systems, and film and imagers.

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