February 4, 2009 - Dilon Technologies released of two new collimators: the Slant15 Collimator for breast imaging and the Low Energy High-Resolution (LEHR) Collimator, which are attachment options for the Dilon 6800 Gamma Camera that help to optimize imaging for the respective applications.

February 4, 2009 - As part of its conversion to a digital medical imaging environment, Orthopedic Associates of Meadville, in Meadville, PA, ordered the latest computed and digital radiography solutions from Carestream Health, including a KODAK DIRECTVIEW DR 3500 System, KODAK DIRECTVIEW Classic CR system and KODAK DIRECTVIEW Long-Length Imaging System.

February 4, 2009 - Calgary Scientific Inc. launched the multi patent-pending PureWeb Platform, a medical application platform designed to enable both Calgary Scientific’s ResolutionMD products and third-party applications to be delivered over the web.

February 4, 2009 — Early registration for the 2009 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS 2009) is running ahead of the 2008 trend, which ended with a record 29,174 attendees, according to HIMSS.

February 4, 2009 – Hospitals are increasingly looking at interoperability between systems as they move to digital imaging and purchase systems from different vendors, according to a new report from Kalorama Information titled "Medical Imaging Markets, Volume I: Radiography (X-Ray, Digital X-Ray, Fluoroscopy, Mammography, and CT Markets)."

February 4, 2009 - Heart Imaging Technologies (HeartIT) said it has created the first free Web site allowing patients to upload and share diagnostic-quality medical images using nothing but a standard Web browser.

The URL is www.webpax.com.

February 4, 2009 - In recent years, cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) has emerged as a useful diagnostic imaging modality for the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD), and new research shows there are significantly lower doses of radiation associated with cardiac CTA than have been previously reported in several earlier studies.

February 4, 2009 - According to a new market research report released this month by market research firm IMV Medical Information Division, the adoption of 64-slice CT equipment by cardiology practices throughout the U.S. has more than doubled over the past two years.

February 3, 200 - Aspyra Inc. said it has contracted with Glendale MRI Institute, a state-of-the-art multi-modality imaging center in southern California to upgrade the center’s existing Aspyra PACS to the most current release, version 6.4, as well as implement its RIS solution.

February 3, 2009 - The Image Gently campaign has developed new materials to educate parents about medical imaging and to help them track their child’s past imaging exams, in an effort to continue to raise awareness about opportunities to lower radiation dose used in pediatric imaging exams.

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