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.

January 2, 2008 - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a growing technology providing an increasing number of clinical benefits when used in the evaluation of back pain, according to an article in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

January 2, 2008 - Jennifer Mieres, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of nuclear cardiology at New York University, officially assumed the presidency of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) yesterday with a call to physicians, scientists and technologists to emphasize patient outcomes and restore patient trust in the world of cardiovascular imaging.

January 2, 2009 - XStor Medical Systems, a privately held Silicon Valley company, released its flagship Imaging Platform for advanced clinical applications and collaborative patient care.

January 2, 2009 - Jennifer Mieres, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of nuclear cardiology (ASNC) at New York University, assumes the presidency of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology today with a call to physicians, scientists, and technologists to emphasize patient outcomes and restore patient trust in the world of cardiovascular imaging.

December 31, 2008 – According to results from a Phase 2 clinical study (BP-23), Zemiva, when combined with the standard of care for the diagnostic evaluation of the chest pain patient, improved sensitivity for the detection of cardiac ischemia by more than 50 percent (p

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