March 10, 2009 – Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital, an 80-bed community hospital in El Dorado, KS, recently installed a Siemens' MAMMOMAT NovationDR, marking the 1,000th installation of the full-field digital mammography system for screening, diagnostics and biopsy applications.

March 10, 2009 - Researchers have found that over a 10-year period radiologic exams on pregnant women have more than doubled, according to a study published in the online edition of Radiology.

March 10, 2009 – Vidacare is showing its FDA-cleared and CE-marked OnControl Aspiration and Biopsy Systems for bone marrow at the SIR 2009 annual meeting, and said it will be available in the summer of 2009.

March 10, 2009 - Interventional radiologists are using image-guided stem cell therapy to create new or more blood vessels to treat peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in those individuals with extensively narrowed or clogged arteries, reported a study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 34th Annual Scientific Meeting.

March 10, 2009 - Endovascular or endograft repair, a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment that uses stent grafts to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), has low re-intervention rates that are comparable to those reported for open surgical repair - and can be recommended as first-line treatment, according to a study released at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 34th An

March 10, 2009 - Swissray International Inc. said today that they have been awarded a new contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs to sell their complete line of digital radiography (DR) systems.

March 10, 2009 - ProSolv CardioVascular, a FUJIFILM company, has released its newest software version Synapse ProSolv cardiovascular 4.0.1, featuring an integrated ECG management capability and integration with the Siemens Sensis Hemodynamic system.

Synapse ProSolv cardiovascular 4.0.1 will be one of several new products highlighted at ACC 2009 this month.

March 9, 2009 - The use of 3D ultrasound with the Clarity Breast System provided enhanced image information to enable radiation oncologists to better define the treatment region when delivering partial breast irradiation treatment (PBI) for breast cancer, according to a report published in the February 1st issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics that

March 9, 2009 - At a Capitol Hill briefing, colorectal screening experts said today that Medicare should reimburse physicians for virtual colonoscopy so that seniors have access to this minimally-invasive screening test, adding another valuable tool for detecting and preventing colorectal cancer.

March 9, 2009 – GE Healthcare announced today at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s annual meeting that it has entered into collaboration with STERIS Corp. to offer STERIS products in GE interventional suites as part of a strategy to integrate and equip interventional suites with leading-edge technologies.

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