March 31, 2009 - Prostate cancer patients have begun receiving brachytherapy using new treatment planning software that aims to enable improvements in the precision and speed of the treatment process.

March 31, 2009 - Patients who undergo several CT scans over their lifetime may be at increased risk for cancer, according to a study published in the April issue of Radiology.

March 30, 2009 – The June E. Nylen Cancer Center and Siouxland Community Health Center, both located in Sioux City, Iowa, are the latest facilities to select NovaRad’s NovaPACS for their radiology departments.

These two contracts bring NovaRad’s PACS and RIS installations in Iowa to more than a dozen.

March 30, 2009 - Bridgehead Software announced the latest version of PACStore, a long-term archiving solution that consolidates data from disparate PACS systems, enabling it to be centrally managed and accessed while providing powerful federated search facilities.

March 30, 2009 - Gottingen University Hospital in Germany and Zurich University Hospital in Switzerland are amongst the earliest implementers of the RapidArc system from Varian Medical Systems and have commenced treatments for complex cancers, including head and neck tumors.

March 30, 2009 - GE Healthcare showed new technology for cardiovascular CTA to improve image quality and workflow, while reducing radiation dose during the 58th Annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting.

March 30, 2009 - Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) today said its embedded processor software toolkit developed for medical diagnostic ultrasound manufacturers is now available.

March 30, 2009 - Michael Harbut, M.D., MPH, co-director of the National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers (NCVAC) at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, MI, and chief of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine Wayne State University, revealed the use of a new technology to aid in the diagnosis of asbestos-related lung disease.

March 30, 2009 - Beaumont Hospitals, based in Royal Oak, MI, will be expanding its current IMPAX radiology PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) to include IMPAX Cardiovascular for imaging and reporting in its cardiology department.

March 30, 2009 – Improving upon the success of its current X-ray technologies, Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc.

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