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.

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.

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