May 20, 2009 – Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. has signed an agreement with NTP Radioisotopes (Pty) Ltd., a subsidiary of the South African Nuclear Energy Corp. (NECSA), to manufacture and supply Lantheus with an ongoing volume of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), a key isotope used in medical imaging procedures.

May 20, 2009 – Definiens, an image software company, and Moffitt Cancer Center will utilize Definiens technology in the analysis of lung cancer CT images for the purpose of developing more accurate prognosis and prediction models for response to specific lung cancer therapies.

May 20, 2009 - Real-time image-guided radiotherapy, combining radiation treatment with non-invasive MR imaging, would leave less healthy tissue damaged and give radiation oncologists the possibility of instantly modifying the treatment dose as tumours change in size and shift, according to a new study published in issue 12 of IOP Publishing’s Physics in Medicine & Biology.

May 20, 2009 – Sapheneia, a global imaging services company, reported that Clarity CT solution has helped lower CT dose 30- 40 percent, according to initial results of an on-going partnership with Children’s Memorial Hospital (“CMH”) of Chicago, Ill., designed to materially reduce CT radiation dose for pediatric patients using Sapheneia’s Clarity CT Solution.

DatCard Systems will be featuring PacsCube software 5.0 at the 2009 SIIM conference. The PacsCube solution seamlessly records patient images and reports to a CD or DVD while also automatically labeling the disc with facility and patient demographics. New features of 5.0 include:

• The ability to create DICOM encrypted discs

May 19, 2009 - Viztek introduces a full-featured mammography viewer that seamlessly integrates with its Opal-RAD PACS solution as well as any PACS supporting DICOM Query/Retreive to deliver high quality display of detailed mammography exams.

May 19, 2009 - TeraRecon Inc. said it will meet the rigorous challenges put forth as part of the Stanford Mulitdetector-Row CT Symposium 2009 Workstation Face-off event on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, San Francisco, Calif., by leveraging new features available in the version 4.4 release of its iNtuition visualization and decision support solution.

May 19, 2009 – Mississippi community hospitals Perry County General Hospital in Richton and Pioneer Community Hospital in Aberdeen selected NovaRad technologies for their radiology departments.

May 19, 2009 - INFINITT North America today announced that business partner INFINITT Korea has formed a partnership with Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Japan) to establish a joint venture company called TI Medical Systems (Toshiba-INFINITT Medical Systems).

May 19, 2009 - DR Systems will announce their Canadian Medical Device License for Unity RIS/PACS and feature its latest Unity release 8.2 software during the upcoming 2009 International MUSE Conference, from May 26-29, at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

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