September 15, 2008 - CMS Inc., an Elekta company, today commercially launched its new 4D treatment planning solution, Focal4D.

Focal4D, part of the Focal product line that also includes FocalSim and FocalPro, reportedly provides a comprehensive suite of capabilities that support the visualization and utilization of 4D image sets to create structures and review treatment options. With support for respiratory-correlated CT images, the toolset includes multiple viewing options such as cine and variable window formats and automated processes for creation of Internal Target Volumes.

September 15, 2008 - Varian Medical Systems is demonstrating its full range of technologies and products aimed at improving the speed and precision of treatments at the 2008 European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, from Sept. 14t-18.

September 15, 2008 – Syntermed unveiled ReconTools, a software package that performs image reconstruction, quality control and correction for degraded image quality in myocardial perfusion SPECT images, at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) 2008 annual meeting in Boston, Sept. 10-14.

September 15, 2008 - A study that looked at 375 patients who underwent nuclear stress testing at Henry Ford showed that in the majority of cases, 90 percent, physicians ordered the diagnostic imaging test appropriately using the updated 2007 Appropriateness Criteria of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ACNC) and American College of Cardiology.

September 15, 2008 - BSD Medical Corp. said the FDA 510(k) cleared its MicroThermX-100 Microwave Ablation System (MTX-100).

The MTX-100 is a compact, mobile system that includes a state-of-the-art computer, a microwave generator, single-patient-use disposable applicators and a proprietary thermistor-based temperature monitoring system.

September 15, 2008 – eRAD said recently that ConforMIS, Inc., a privately held company that develops and commercializes personalized, minimally invasive orthopedic devices, has contracted them to install eRAD PACS.

September 15, 2008 - Results from a safety study indicating that HX4, a new imaging biomarker that enables imaging hypoxic tumors, is safe for use in human positron emission tomography (PET) imaging studies, were presented on September 12, 2008, at the World Molecular Imaging Conference in Nice, France.

September 15, 2008 – At ESTRO 2008 in Gothenburg, Sweden, Nucletron released its Oncentra RT Viewer, designed to allow clinicians to review radiotherapy plans that are generated with a wide variety of DICOM-compliant treatment planning systems, in a Windows PC-based environment.

The Aquarius iNtuition advanced visualization solution from TeraRecon features new innovations in endovascular and interventional planning software.

Syntermed's ReconTools software package performs image reconstruction, quality control and correction for degraded image quality in myocardial perfusion SPECT images.

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