August 7, 2009 - Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) are among the relevant topics Siemens Healthcare will cover covered at its Innovations forum, which runs from August 8-12 in Philadelphia, Penn.

August 7, 2009 - IMIX Americas will be demonstrating two digital radiography (DR) products at the AHRA’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition will be held August 9-13 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nev. 

August 6, 2009 – Matthew Budoff, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of cardiac CT at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute in Torrance, Calif., has become the first cardiologist in California to offer patients BioShield-Radiation R1, the only patented dietary supplement designed to neutralize the damaging free radicals produced b

August 6, 2009 - Positron emission tomography (PET) is an important tool for depicting the extent of neuroblastoma in some patients, particularly for those in the early stages of the disease, reported a new study published in the August issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

August 6, 2009 - In comparison to a cohort of patients treated by conventional radiation techniques, image-guided intensity-modulated RT (IG-IMRT) was feasible for biliary tract tumors, and the median survival was nearly double that in the group treated with conventional RT.

August 6, 2009 - The use of digital breast tomosynthesis and full-field digital mammography (FFDM) combined may be associated with a substantial decrease in recall rate, according to a study performed at UPMC in Pittsburgh, Penn., published in the American Roentgen Ray Society.

August 6, 2009 – Ziosoft Inc., an advanced visualization and analysis software for medical imaging, and Healthcare Software Systems Ltd. (HSS), a United Kingdom supplier of radiology information systems, have signed an agreement for HSS to distribute Ziosoft’s 3D thin-client software solutions in the U.K.

August 5, 2009 - Vital Images Inc. introduced Vitrea Enterprise Suite, which combines the company’s 2D, 3D and 4D clinical applications and services with a centralized solution for managing volumetric image data across the medical enterprise.

August 5, 2009 – The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) named Chirapa Puntawangkoon, M.D., and Thananya Boonyasirinant, M.D., the winners of the third annual Young Investigator Award.

Both winners were honored at SCCT’s 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting in Orlando, Fla.

August 5, 2009 - The FDA granted 510k clearance to Carestream Health Inc. for its new CARESTREAM DRX-Evolution, a cassette-size, wireless DR detector.

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