May 28, 2009 - Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) when used to treat certain patients with non-small-cell lung cancer provided a 3-year local tumor control rate of 90 percent or higher with minor toxicity, reported Scandinavian researchers report in a May 4th online edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

May 27, 2009 - The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has given marketing clearance to a tabletop laser imager from Carestream Health Inc. that provides healthcare professionals with output for digital mammography and general radiography applications.

May 27, 2009 - Orthopedic Specialists, P.C. of St. Louis, Miss., a multi-specialty orthopedic practice, switched from analog film to digital with Viztek’s Opal-ORTHO PACS and U-ARM DR solutions.

May 27, 2009 – Patients with locally advanced lung cancer who received a course of radiation therapy to their brain at the completion of their lung cancer treatment were less likely to develop brain metastases within the first year after treatment, according to new research from the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) that will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual

May 27, 2009 – A single high dose of radiotherapy is as effective in relieving the pain from vertebral bone metastases as 10 smaller treatments according to new research from the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) that will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Orlando on May 31, 2009.

May 27, 2009 – Kearney Clinic, P.C. located in Kearney, Neb., recently installed NovaRad’s NovaPACS for its on-site radiology department, providing Web-based access to images.

May 27, 2009 - Staffing rates for radiation therapy facilities have remained relatively stable within the past two years, according to a recent study conducted by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists.

May 27, 2009 - Ziosoft Inc., an advanced visualization and analysis software company for medical imaging, was a first time participant in the Stanford Workstation Face-Off where its software was compared side-by-side with seven of our competitors, during the 11th Annual Symposium on Multidetector Row CT held last week in San Francisco.

May 26, 2009 – The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance said today a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania confirms computed tomography angiography (CTA) to be a safe, effective and cost-efficient means of ruling out cardiovascular disease in patients presenting to the emergency room with chest pain.  The results of this landmark study were presented at the

May 26, 2009 - Carestream Health’s PACS workstation with on-board 3D tools, which was the only PACS workstation to compete at Stanford University’s “Face-Off, ” completed all clinical imaging exams within the allotted time period during the “Workstation Face-Off” at Stanford University’s Annual International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT held last week in San Francisco.

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