February 19, 2009 -Varian Medical Systems today announced that it has received CE mark for the Varian Proton Therapy System, a system that enables the use of higher doses of radiation to control and manage tumors while significantly reducing damage to healthy tissue and vital organs.

February 19, 2009 - ZONARE Medical Systems Inc. introduced its new z.one ultra sp ultrasound system for point-of-care markets such as emergency medicine, interventional radiology, venous ablation, anesthesiology and OB/GYN.

February 19, 2009 - The Society for Women's Health Research and the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) reminded women of the diagnostic technology available that can detect heart disease while it is treatable, and released a fact sheet to help patients and their families better understand the noninvasive diagnostic technologies that can be used to help detect coronary disease.

February 19, 2009 — RIS Concepts released a new patient data access portal option for its flagship enterprise RCI-RIS, a browser-based multifacility application that supports a comprehensive range of advanced RIS features.

February 19, 2009 - Viztek will feature Opal-ORTHO PACS, especially designed for the orthopedic market, at the 2009 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.


February 18, 2009 - MEDRAD’s Intego PET Infusion System has been named one of Medical Imaging Magazine’s top eight most innovative products of the year.

The magazine designated its top eight based on what its readership considers to be the most far-reaching, game changing or otherwise groundbreaking medical devices on the market.



Frank Rybicki, M.D., director of cardiac CT and vascular CT, MRI, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, sat down with Imaging Technology News (ITN) to talk about the Toshiba-sponsored Core-320 trial that will compare coronary CT angiography with myocardial perfusion performed on Toshiba’s Acquilion ONE against traditional invasive angiography and SPECT. The trial is set to begin later this year.


February 18, 2009 – ContextVision said today it has gained ISO 13485:2003 certification as recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), reportedly the world’s largest developer and publisher of international standards.

February 18, 2009 - InSite One Inc. said today that the InDex Archive has reached a new milestone with over 31 million studies in this single object repository representing approximately 4.5 percent of the U.S. diagnostic imaging patient population in 2008.

February 18, 2009 – GE Healthcare said the new Discovery PET/CT 600-series scanners, designed to help enable earlier detection and accurate monitoring of disease, are being installed globally.

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