June 19, 2009 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has selected Theodore Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D., FASTRO, and William Shipley, M.D., FASTRO, as its 2009 Gold Medal recipients, the highest honor that ASTRO bestows. Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Shipley will be presented with their awards at the Gold Medal Ceremony being held November 3, 2009, at 10:45 a.m.

June 18, 2009 – aycan Medical systems announced the installation of an advanced RIS/PACS system at Rural Radiology of Bemidji in Minn., providing best in class turn-key solution to its customers, said aycan.

June 18, 2009 - Calypso Medical Technologies announced the publication of three new studies investigating the role of the Calypso 4D Localization System in guiding immediate adjustments to radiation delivery in response to tumor motion, a concept known as real-time adaptive radiation treatment.

June 19, 2009 – Medtronic Inc. today said it received CE (Conformité Européenne) mark for the company's second-generation pacemaker designed, tested, approved for use as labeled with MRI machines, the Advisa DR MRI SureScan pacing system.

The Advisa MRI SureScan pacing system currently is not available for sale in the U.S.

June 19, 2009 – The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) is set to hold its fourth annual scientific meeting, July 16-19, 2009 in Orlando, Fla.

June 19, 2009 - Barco has won a substantial order for the supply of medical displays for a new PACS system to be installed at Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East in Japan.

June 18, 2009 – MedCentral Health System just launched Siemens new knowledge-driven, healthcare data-mining tool, Soarian Quality Measures, enabled by the REMIND (Reliable Extraction and Meaningful Inference from Non-structured Data) Platform.

June 18, 2009 - Researchers at the Heart and Vascular Institute and the Imaging Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio said stress imaging remains the most acceptable noninvasive technique for diagnosis of in-stent restenosis (ISR) based on a meta-analysis using available studies to determine the diagnostic efficacy of 64-slice computed tomography (CT) in evaluation of ISR.

June 18, 2009 - Bionix Radiation Therapy announces the arrival of the SecureVac VersaCushion is designed to increase reproducibility, maximizes patient comfort, and is considered a complex billing device.

June 18, 2009 - A leading Danish cancer hospital has treated its first patient using RapidArc radiotherapy after installing eight advanced radiotherapy treatment machines from Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, Calif. Herlev Hospital, to the northwest of Copenhagen, delivered the fast and efficient RapidArc treatment to a prostate cancer patient using a Clinac iX linear accelerator.

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