September 12, 2008 – GE Healthcare and Varian Inc. will begin a collaboration to develop a new preclinical 7T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system to create an advanced MR for research purposes.

Under the agreement, initial development and integration will be a joint effort between the two companies. Once development is complete, Varian will offer customers a fully integrated 7T System combining GE Healthcare’s electronics, user interface, pulse-sequences and applications with the magnet, gradients, positioning devices and RF coils provided by Varian.

September 12, 2008 – Navilyst Medical launched two new devices this week, an enhanced PICC Convenience Kitting and a new Xcela Power Injectable Port catheter provide a means for long-term delivery of fluids and medications including chemotherapy, and a new EZ Huber Safety Infusion Set offers a dual-action safety mechanism designed to reduce the risk of bloodborne pathogen exposure.

The new products will be premiered at Booth 202 at the upcoming Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association for Vascular Access (AVA) in Savannah, GA this week.

September 12, 2008 – Elekta said today its ERGO 1.7.1. for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) is now available.

VMAT is a new treatment technique offering shorter treatment times with the highest degree of precision. Building upon the experience of Arc Modulation, ERGO for VMAT can be used with a wide range of equipment, including mini and micro MLCs in addition to the Elekta MLCi (10mm) and Beam Modulator (4mm, full interdigitation).

At TCT 2008, Siemens Healthcare will introduce syngo Dynamics release 7.0, a cardiology image management and reporting solution. The intuitive user interface reportedly anticipates the way cardiologists like to work.


The conversion of a radiology department from film to digital, accompanied by the adoption of a new PACS, often sparks the debate over whether to purchase a computed radiography system (CR) or digital radiography system (DR).

September 11, 2008 - For the fifth year, Siemens Healthcare (www.siemens.com/healthcare) presented the “New Point of View” Preclinical Image of the Year Awards, designed to demonstrate how Siemens preclinical imaging systems help researchers improve the quality of imaging and overall research, at the Siemens Preclinical User’s Group Meeting, held in Nice, France.

September 10, 2008 - Cellvizio in vivo cellular imaging technology is helping researchers detect early-stage pancreatic cancer, understand stem cell development and enhance the value of whole body imaging, according to three new animal studies being presented at the World Molecular Imaging Congress in Nice, France, held September 10-13, 2008.

October 30, 2007- SonoSite Inc. today introduced the S-Cath visualization tool, a specialized ultrasound device designed to meet the specific point-of-care imaging and procedural guidance needs of interventional radiologists and cardiologists.

September 11, 2008 - Advanced image-processing and 3D visualization solutions provider TeraRecon Inc. today released new innovations in its flagship Aquarius iNtuition platform at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) Annual Meeting in Boston, Sept. 11-14, 2008.

September 10 — Carestream Molecular Imaging, a division of Carestream Health, Inc., announced a new software module that enables users to perform bone mineral density analysis of small animals and in vitro specimens using multi-energy digital X-ray imaging.

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