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.

September 10, 2009 - SNM applauds the FDA's recent decision to approve the radioimmunotherapy (RIT) drug, Zevalin, as a front-line treatment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL).

September 10, 2009 - Hitachi has selected Elekta to provide workflow enhancing software for its PROBEAT proton therapy facility at West Medical Center in Nagoya, Japan.

Enabling the facility to manage patient data in a chartless, paperless
environment, the facility is the second Hitachi-equipped center to
implement MOSAIQ, Elekta's oncology information system (OIS) for cancer care.

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