August 19, 2009 - Sentinelle Medical will focus on the Aegis with Bright 2.0 Imaging Analysis Software in booth 16 at the Breast Imaging Conference, held in Glendale, Ariz., August 15-17, 2009.


In the pre-clinicial trial Expanding the Versatility of Cardiac PET/CT: Feasibility of Delayed Contrast Enhancement CT for Infarct Detection in a Porcine Model (Holz1, A., et al)*, researchers found that infarct size can be measured accurately and reproducibly using cardiac PET/CT with delayed CT-enhancement.

August 19, 2009 - Actual utilization rates for radiation therapy equipment used in freestanding cancer treatment centers are closer to the current assumed rate of 50 percent, not 90 percent as proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the Medicare physician fee schedule proposed rule for 2010.

August 19, 2009 - Uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for women that cuts off blood flow to painful fibroids to kill the tumors, is highlighted as an appropriate treatment for women in a Clinical Therapeutics article in the Aug. 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

August 18, 2009 – Medical conferencing solutions provider MultiSense Communications and medical imaging specialist Barco recently demonstrated the clinical benefits of today's telemedicine systems during a live open-heart surgery operation at the Imperial College Hospital in Hammersmith, U.K.

August 18, 2009 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a proposed decision to cover FDG-PET for initial staging of cervical cancer, but to exclude coverage for diagnosis of the disease.

August 18, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare’s SOMATOM Emotion CT scanner was ranked highest among 16-slice CT systems, according to a recent report from market research firm KLAS.*

August 18, 2009 - Philips Healthcare announces the first commercial shipments of the MX 16-slice CT scanner to customer sites around the globe.

August 18, 2009 - Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) represents a safe, noninvasive modality that frequently helps guide patient management, according to early findings from a multicenter registry published online Aug. 11 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

August 11, 2009 - Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of specialized graphics solutions, and Eizo Nanao Corp., the leading medical solution provider of 10-bit displays, are pleased to announce that EIZO Nanao has selected and will be shipping the Matrox Xenia Series display controller boards with various EIZO RadiForce medical displays.

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