July 14, 2009 – Standard Imaging Inc. recently released QA BeamChecker Plus Communication software version 2.2, a free upgrade to its current application, adding rotational QA functionality to assist users in maintaining consistent output of their treatment machines.

July 14, 2009 - Circulating tumor cell (CTC) count could better predict the prognosis and survival in metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients compared to FDG-PET/CT, according to a newly published report in the July 10 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

July 14, 2009 –The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) has installed in its clinical interventional MRI suite the IMROC communication system, a fiber optics-based system that enables doctors to converse normally in the noisy MRI environment.

July 13, 2009 - The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) recently welcomed the newest members of the College of SIIM Fellows. They are James Anthony Seibert, Ph.D.; and Byrn Williamson Jr., M.D. The two were introduced by Steven C.

July 13, 2009 - The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC), today, echoed a key sentiment expressed by 40 House Democrats in a letter to the House Democratic leadership regarding regional disparities in Medicare reimbursement rates.

July 13, 2009 - Ultrasound outperforms symptom analysis in identifying overian cancer, reports a study in the article "The search for meaning-symptoms and TVS screening for ovarian cancer - Silent no more," published today in the online version of Cancer.

July 13, 2009 - On July 7 the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) started its first cardiovascular trial, ACRIN PA 4005 “Randomized Controlled Study of a Rapid 'Rule Out' Strategy Using CT Coronary Angiography Versus Traditional Care for Low-Risk ED Patients with Potential Acute Coronary Syndromes.”

July 13, 2009 - A new study by Mayo Clinic researchers uses MRI-based differential diagnosis for identifying three common neurodegenerative disorders: Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and Lewy body disease using Structural MRI.

July 13, 2009 - Purdue University researchers have developed a "homing device" for prostate cancer using by synthesizing a molecule that finds and penetrates prostate cancer cells and using imaging agents and therapeutic drugs that can link to the molecule and be carried with it as cargo.

July 13, 2009 - In a study performed at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, researchers found that the use of cardiac CT for low-risk chest pain patients in the emergency department, instead of the traditional standard of care (SOC) workup, may reduce a patient's length of stay and hospital charges.

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