December 23, 2008 - Volcano Corp., a manufacturer of products for the diagnosis and treatment of coronary and peripheral artery disease, said today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Axsun Technologies Inc., a privately-held company that is a developer and manufacturer of lasers and optical engines used in medical optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging systems and advan

December 23, 2008 – The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) will hold its annual Mid-Winter Educational Symposium February 5-8 at the Hilton Clearwater in Clearwater, FL.

December 22, 2008 – Siemens Healthcare made significant contributions to the U.S. communities where it operates, pledging over $740,000 this holiday season as part of its annual giving campaign for organizations and charities throughout the U.S. through volunteer opportunities, employee contributions and matching company donations.

December 22, 2008 - MITA also applauded the renewed focus on health reform in Congress and the administration.

December 22, 2008 – To help eliminate the hassle of transporting and keeping track of DVDs and videos, NovaRad has released its NovaMotion, designed to enables radiologists to archive, retrieve and view live motion studies such as barium swallow, endoscopies and colonoscopies within NovaPACS and EKGs.

December 22, 2008 - A Swiss cancer clinic is among the first in the world to use the newest radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems, RapidArc, to treat a child patient.

A 12-year-old girl with Hodgkin's lymphoma was treated using Varian's RapidArc technique at the Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana (IOSI) in Bellinzona, southern Switzerland.

December 22, 2008 - SenoRx Inc. said the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company its sixth brachytherapy-related patent and fourth patent directly related to its Contura Multi-Lumen Radiation Balloon (MLB) catheter for the treatment of breast cancer.

December 22, 2008 - Doctors at the Cancer Treatment Services in Casa Grande, AZ, have begun treating cancer patients with reportedly a faster and more precise form of radiotherapy, the RapidArc from Varian.

December 22, 2008 - The Medipattern Corp. and iPACS.US LLC have signed a non-exclusive original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement allowing iPACS to integrate B-CAD into its product line, according to Medipattern.

December 19, 2008 – To meet the growing demand for the high quality diagnostic imaging and testing services in local communities, the North Shore-LIJ Health System has opened a newly renovated $4.3 million, 4,000-square-foot outpatient imaging center.

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