February 26, 2009 - The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) said it supports the health policy goals presented in the President's federal budget, however, the association said that the budget's proposed reliance on radiology benefit managers (RBMs) will deny imaging services, and is an ineffective model that undermines the doctor-patient relationship in making healthcare decisions.

February 26, 2009 – Orbital Therapy, LLC announces the commercial introduction of ClearVue, prone position breast radiotherapy treatment table, in the European Union.

February 26, 2009 - iCAD Inc. reports a 15 percent increase in total revenue in the fourth quarter and for the full year ending Dec. 31, 2008, total revenue increased 41 percent.

February 26, 2009 - Del Medical Systems Group has achieved top ranking for System Reliability out of a group of twelve vendors that lead the radiographic market for both digital and conventional systems. These results appeared in MD Buyline`s Q4 2008 Market Outlook User Satisfaction Ratings Survey published in January 2009.

February 26, 2009 - Excessive dietary fat caused a 300 percent increase in metastasizing tumor cells in laboratory animals, representing a possible new technique to track if a patient's cancer is spreading, according to researchers at Purdue University.

February 26, 2009 - The first 3D imaging results obtained with a new imaging technology called Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) produced reportedly unprecedented real-time images of arterial blood flow and volumetric heart motion, reported Royal Philips Electronics.

February 26, 2009 - In 2006, Americans were exposed to more than seven times as much ionizing radiation from medical procedures as was the case in the early 1980s, according to a new report on population exposure released March 3rd by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) at its annual meeting in Bethesda, MD.

February 26, 2009 - eHealth Global Technologies added three transplant centers to the company’s eHealthConnect medical record management service, joining the nearly 30 transplant centers across the U.S. already using eHealth Global’s eHealthConnect service.

February 25, 2009 - The Centre Oscar Lambret in Lille, France, has begun treating cancer patients using the TomoTherapy Hi·Art treatment system, which is the first of two Hi·Art treatment systems that Centre Oscar Lambret has ordered.

February 26, 2009 - Accuray Inc. said its recent 8th Annual CyberKnife Users' Meeting attracted over 500 surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical physicists, hospital administrators and other related clinical staff, many of whom gave presentations on the use of the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System for the noninvasive treatment of tumors anywhere in the body.

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