Philips will feature advanced visualization tools on its iSite PACS at RSNA 2008.

October 8, 2008 - SurgiCount Medical said they implemented their SurgiCount Medical’s Computer Assisted Sponge Counting System for the first time in a New York hospital.

SurgiCount’s Safety-Sponge System consists of individually bar-coded surgical sponges and portable scanner that validates traditional hand sponge counts and will be implemented across all services, thus offering the same standard of care to all of their patients, said the company.

For more information: www.surgicountmedical.com

October 1 2008 – At RSNA 2008, BRIT Systems is celebrating 15 years in the radiology informatics marketplace as one of the few remaining original PACS companies.

BRIT has continually updated its solutions with the latest available technologies and actively supports industry standards such as DICOM and IHE.

Kalare X-ray system is optimized for the most demanding clinical environments by reportedly ensuring that more exams are performed with ease, comfort and speed. The system aims to increase patient comfort with its extended table weight limit, tableside controls and radiation dose reduction technology.

October 8, 2008 - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast continues to show double digit growth in 2008 and is one of the fastest growing procedures in the magnetic resonance departments, reported Arlington Medical Resources (AMR), a provider of premier market intelligence for the pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging industries.

The newly released edition of the Imaging Market Guide also finds that approximately 90 percent of patients undergoing an MRI of the breast received a contrast agent during the study to improve the delineation between normal and abnormal tissues.

October 7, 2008 — Carestream Health unveiled new software for its DR 7500 digital radiography system designed to deliver greater user control over image display, more consistent presentation of images across soft copy and hard copy devices and enhanced image processing algorithms.

October 8, 2008 – Medical imaging company Barco has introduced a new version of its Voxar 3D advanced visualization product that integrates seamlessly into FUJIFILM’s Synapse PACS platform.

The new integration allows Synapse users to read their studies faster without major infrastructure investment and provides a five-fold increase in image loading performance, according to Barco.

October 8, 2008 - The Medipattern Corp. said that a study abstract, showing a statistically significant increase in diagnostic accuracy when using B-CAD Version 2 on lesions less than 1 cm in size, has been published in the October 2008 issue of the “American Journal of Clinical Oncology.”

October 8, 2008 - deCODE genetics today launched deCODE BreastCancer, a new tool for assessing risk of the common forms of breast cancer.

Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. will unveil women’s imaging ultrasound techniques at RSNA 2008, including breast imaging techniques that enable physicians to better evaluate breast lesions and Spatio-Temporal Image Correlation (STIC) technology to assess the fetal heart.

Mammography is the gold standard for detecting micro-calcifications in the breast. Toshiba has developed a proprietary ultrasound technology called MicroPure to help identify and eventually characterize these micro-calcifications.

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