June 3, 2009 - In July 2009, the American College of Radiology (ACR) will launch the National Mammography Database (NMD), the newest addition to the National Radiology Dose Registry (NRDR), a warehouse of ACR registry databases that compiles data to allow radiology facilities to compare themselves to other facilities regionally and nationally according to facility type.
 

June 2, 2009 - Naviscan Inc. has issued a nonexclusive licensing agreement with an undisclosed imaging company for intellectual property that enables Naviscan’s Stereo Navigator PEM-guided biopsy accessory to obtain emission data, locate the abnormal tissue and process the data to guide a biopsy needle.

June 3, 2009 – UltraSPECT said yesterday it will launch its Attenuation Correction/Scatter Correction (ACSC) package to its nuclear medicine image reconstruction products following the FDA clearance of the software package.

June 3, 2009 - The Chalk River Laboratories (CRL) nuclear reactor, which supplies about a third of the world’s medical isotopes, has been shut down since May 14 and is not expected to be back for at least three months, according to Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL).

The reactor produces medical isotopes such as molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), which are used in diagnostic nuclear imaging scans.

June 3, 2009 - AccelaRAD, the leading national Software as a Service (SaaS) radiology image management company, debuts at the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) conference this week a range of features such as PriorsAnytime and Study Upload module for its Virtual Radiology Network (VRN).

June 2, 2009 - Intelerad Medical Systems will preview several new IntelePACS enhancements, such as critical results management, peer review and Image Quality Review tools, during the exhibits portion of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).

The new IntelePACS features that will be demonstrated at SIIM are:

June 2, 2009 - Celsense Inc. reported it is one of the recipients in a four-year $1.95 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, funding to evaluate Cell Sense, the company’s fluorocarbon-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cell tracking reagent, for clinical use.

June 2, 2009 - Clinical trial results presented at the Digestive Disease Week in Chicago today reveal that endoscopic radiofrequency ablation performed in a community practice setting is safe and effective for eradicating a pre-cancerous esophageal condition known as Barrett's esophagus.

June 2, 2009 – TomoTherapy Inc. reported that the University of Kentucky (UK) Chandler Medical Center’s Markey Cancer Center has commenced treating patients with the TomoTherapy Hi·Art treatment system, a versatile, CT scanner-based device, which integrates image guidance for increased treatment accuracy and helical radiation therapy delivery for enhanced tumor targeting.

June 2, 2009 – Nucletron BV, a cancer radiation solutions company, has created of an exclusive partnership and plans to merge with sector peer Isodose Control BV for an undisclosed sum.

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