January 6, 2009 - A pancreatic cancer patient at the Humanitas Clinic in Milan, Italy has become the first person in Italy to be treated with Varian’s RapidArc, which is designed to enable doctors to improve outcomes while extending more advanced care to more patients.

December 5, 2008 - The ability for cancer cells to reverse a natural self-destruction process may attribute to the reason cancer can return after treatment, according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer.

January 5, 2009 – A first-degree family history of prostate cancer has no impact on the treatment outcomes of prostate cancer patients treated with brachytherapy, and patients with this type of family history have clinical and pathologic characteristics similar to men with no family history at all, according to a January 1 study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics,

January 5, 2009 - Arlington Medical Resources (AMR), a provider of market intelligence for the pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging industries, reported that the number of micro-bubble echo contrast procedures performed in October 2008 have increased by more than 50 percent, to nearly 18,000 procedures, when compared to May 2008.

January 5, 2009 - Pegasus Imaging Corp. will acquire AccuSoft Corporation's imaging business in an eight-figure deal, which includes the ImageGear and NetVue product lines.

January 5, 2008 - Alliance Imaging paid $43 million and assumed indebtedness to acquire Shared P.E.T. Imaging LLC, a mobile and fixed-site provider of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), which generates approximately $29 million in annual revenue.

January 5, 2009 — In a study to determine the diagnostic value of molecular imaging in nodal staging of patients with thyroid cancer, researchers were able to accurately distinguish between cancerous cells in regional lymph nodes and normal residual thyroid tissue directly after surgery for the first time.

January 5, 2009 - Frost & Sullivan said it has awarded Toshiba America Medical Systems with its 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Healthcare Innovation.

January 2, 2008 - Unfors Instruments opened up new sales subsidiaries on the big and emerging markets in India and China in Q4 of 2008, according to the company.

In India, the start up of the new subsidiary is being done in close partnership with Rosalina Ltd., a long-term Unforms distributor, and the office location will be in Mumbai.

In China, Shanghai will serve as headquarters.

NAI Tech Products’ MDR Video RP is designed for analog video recording to disk for fluoroscopy, endoscopy, ultrasound and angiography. It features a an integrated full color label printing in disk drive and can write images and viewer to disk or USB memory. The system comes in a new configuration on a cart with playback monitor and touch-screen user interface.

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