March 26, 2009 – ContextVision, a software developer for medical imaging manufacturers, launched a new version of its X-ray tuning software, GOPView XR2-T.
March 26, 2009 - Saudi Arabia’s leading cancer center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) in Riyadh, will become the region’s first to treat patients with the Hi·Art treatment system, TomoTherapy Inc.’s next-generation radiation therapy solution designed to improve the precision of cancer care.
March 26, 2009 - Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc. said today that First Coast Service Options, the Medicare Administrative Contractor for Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, assigned region-wide payment amounts to the CPT code 0197T for intrafraction tracking to capture daily use of the Calypso 4D Localization System
March 25, 2009 – GE Healthcare launched Alcyone Technology, a nuclear cardiology SPECT platform combining cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors, focused pin-hole collimation, 3D reconstruction and stationary data acquisition, designed to improve workflow, dose management and overall image quality.
MARCH 25, 2009 – St. Joseph Hospital (SJH) in Nashua, NH, has expanded its relationship with GE Healthcare through the selection of Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR) version 9.0 to enable its physicians to provide better, more coordinated patient care.
GE Healthcare's 1.5T magnetic resonance (MR) scanner, Discovery MR450, offers some of the most advanced capabilities available on any 1.5T system, including real-time cardiac imaging, single-acquisition, multi-contrast abdominal images with outstanding fat/water separation and ultra high-resolution musculoskeletal exams with high patient throughput.
March 25, 2009 - Patients who undergo numerous CT scans over their lifetime may be at increased risk for cancer, according to a study published in the April issue of Radiology.
March 25, 2009 - ONI Medical Systems has installed the new MSK Extreme 1.5T high-field dedicated musculoskeletal MRI systems at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, and UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA.
