May 12, 2009 – Many U.S. hospital radiology administrators expect to see their capital equipment budgets freed up to allow the acquisitions of key diagnostic imaging equipment, including mammography, digital radiography, fluoroscopy and 64 plus slice CT scanners, according to a newly released study of 250 U.S. hospitals conducted by IMV Limited.

May 12, 2009 – Bionix Radiation Therapy now offers another option for the positioning of the head and shoulders with the new Head & Shoulder MoldCare (HSMC).

The new Bionix HSMC provides facilities with a new complex positioning device for use during conformal irradiation as well as stereotactic and IMRT treatment sessions.

May 12, 2009 - PETLinQ LLC, a radiology solutions provider, released its newest product innovation - SoftStationWeb - a thin client web-based application created for the viewing of full PET/CT data sets with fused images, requiring only a secure password and login; no downloading of any kind is needed.

May 11, 2009 - Lyncean Technologies Inc. has just received a Phase I SBIR grant of $1,296,403 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to develop differential phase contrast imaging (DPCI) using the X-ray beam produced by the Compact Light Source (CLS).

May 11, 2009 - The Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI) is pleased to announce that its randomized, multicenter trial investigating the use of 18F-sodium fluoride PET/CT (18F-NaF) to detect bony metastases has enrolled its first 10 patients. This study compares conventional planar 99mTc-MDP bone imaging with 18F-NaF PET/CT in patients with breast, prostate and non-small cell lung cancers.

May 11, 2009 – Vital Images Inc. will showcase Vitrea Web, a new solution exclusive to ViTAL Enterprise customers, that provides anywhere access to all of Vital Images’ powerful clinical applications at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Annual Meeting, June 4-7 in Charlotte, NC.

May 8, 2009 – Digisonics’ latest OB-Windows/OB-View software release, which includes over 20 new features, showcased at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) annual meeting in Chicago this week.

The system is dedicated to providing an ever-growing customer base with requested enhancements to OB/GYN image management and clinical reporting systems.

The suspicion that this ill-defined echopoor mass was malignant was supported by very high kPa values (over 200) in its periphery. The histology was a ductal carcinoma.
This echogenic lesion has low kPa values, similar to the surrounding breast tissue. Biopsy revealed fatty tissue and the final diagnosis was a lipoma.
Any lesion that is echopoor and shows shadowing must be considered suspicious and this was graded as BI-RADS 4. The shear wave elastogram showed low values and the biopsy onlyshowedfibrous tissue.

Palpation, amongst the oldest of clinical skills, was used in ancient Egypt and is described in the Ebers’ papyrus (about 1552 BC) to feel for hard lumps in the breast as an indicator of malignancy (Sakorafas, G H. 2001).

May 8, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare has filed an exploratory Investigational New Drug (eIND) application with the FDA for a new imaging agent [18F]-SMIBR-W372, to image amyloid plaque associated with Alzheimer's Disease.

May 8, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare announces FDA 510(k) clearance for the new Biograph TruePoint 16-slice PET/CT system, which is now commercially available.

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