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.

Feb 18, 2009 - The SAVI applicator significantly expands the number of women who are able to benefit from breast brachytherapy, according to a new, peer-reviewed journal article in Radiotherapy and Oncology.

February 18, 2009 - Matrox Graphics Inc., a manufacturer of specialized graphics solutions, has an agreement with FIMI Medical Display Solutions, a Royal Philips Electronics company, to ship Matrox Xenia Series display controller boards for use with the MML2032 and MML2152 grayscale medical LCD displays designed to meet PACS workstation user needs.

February 17, 2009 – The National Institutes of Health have given UCSD’s Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center a $7.5 million grant to develop new methods for detecting cancer and monitoring its treatment at the newly established In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center.

February 18, 2009 – The global market for picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) is expected to witness steady growth and$4.8 Billion by 2015, driven by increasd adoption across imaging centers and hospitals, advances in communication and enterprise technologies, and integrated with other imaging modalities, said a report by Global Industry Analysts Inc. (GIA).

February 17, 2009 – In response to President Obama signing the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 into law today, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) said it predicts the inclusion of $19.2 billion for health IT will have important economic benefits and result in improved patient care.

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