August 28, 2008 – The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) is now accepting applications for its 2009 research award program.

The annual program offers two-year, $80,000 Basic Research Fellowships,and one-year, $75,000 Translational Grants to young, exceptional brain tumor researchers in the U.S. and Canada.

August 28, 2008 – Patients made an estimated 24.5 million radiation therapy or related visits to 2,110 U.S. radiation oncology sites in 2007, approximately a 5 percent increase over 23.2 million visits in 2006, reported IMV Medical Information Division in a recent study.

The top three cancer site types include prostate, breast and lung cancer, which account for 21 percent, 20 percent and 13 percent, respectively, of all cancer site types treated using radiation therapy.

August 28, 2008 - Confirma and MEDRAD have signed an agreement that enables MEDRAD to sell CADstream version 5.0 in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, while Confirma agrees to install, train and support all CADstream customers.

Under this agreement, MEDRAD will be selling Confirma's next-generation CADstream version 5.0 for breast and prostate in the European Union. This version of CADstream is currently under clinical investigation in the U.S.

August 28, 2008 - The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) has selected renowned pediatric oncologist Audrey Evans, M.D., as its 2008 honorary member.

August 28, 2008 - BSD Medical Corp. will work with GE Medical Systems in the integration of BSD Medical’s cancer treatment system with a GE magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, marking the first collaborative engineering effort between GE and BSD Medical.

August 28, 2008 — The most common modalities owned by radiologists were magnetic resonance and computed tomography scanners, according to The 2007 Survey of Radiologists: Practice Characteristics, Ownership, and Affiliation With Imaging Centers, by James W. Moser, Ph.D., published in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).

August 28, 2008 - Radiologists, medical physicists and radiologic technologists agreed to work with the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging to set standards in radiation dose estimates, establishing methods to measure and report pediatric dose from CT scans.

The BRANSIST safire VC17 ceiling-mounted vascular package is a digital angiography system that features a 17 by 17-inch direct-conversion FPD, reportedly the largest in its class. The system is designed with not only high image quality, but also the optimal image quality for the various complex interventional procedures over the extensive field of views available.

Simbionix ANGIO Mentor family of products are multidisciplinary simulators that provide hands-on practice, in an extensive and complete simulated environment of interventional endovascular procedures.

Interventional cardiologists, interventional radiologist and vascular surgeons can use it to perform complete procedures, as well as acquiring basic skills.

Best Vascular Inc. specializes in vascular brachytherapy, radiation therapy delivered inside a blood vessel to prevent restenosis following balloon angioplasty, using the Beta-Cath system.

The Beta-Cath is commercially available in the U.S., European Union, Canada and other countries.

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