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.

February 25, 2009 — Matrox Graphics Inc. said today that ASPYRA Diagnostic Solutions Inc. is incorporating hardware-based image processing support in it AccessNET PACS solutions using the advanced features of the Matrox Xenia Series display controller boards.

February 25, 2009 – The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) has elected Elizabeth M. Gore, M.D. chair of the Full Member Principal Investigators Committee.

February 25, 2009 – The 2009 World Molecular Imaging Conference (WMIC 2009) abstract submission site is now open.

WMIC is using a new submission system, Abstract Central, a ScholarOne product. The new system will function much like the system used for JMIC 2007 and WMIC 2008, with two major differences:

February 25, 2009 — Carestream Health Inc. showed the industry’s first cassette-size, wireless digital radiography (DR) detector, as well as an orthopedic PACS solution, at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS 2009) meeting this week.

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