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.

August 27, 2008 – The North Shore-LIJ’s Diagnostic Imaging Center installed reportedly the first open-field MRI on Long Island, NY.

Unlike conventional closed tunnel-shaped MRIs, the open design of the center’s new MRI reportedly caters to anxious or claustrophobic patients, overweight or large adults and children who may be especially fearful of older machines.

August 27, 2008 – Spectrum Surgical Instruments this week introduced its line of Spectrum SuperCut scissors.

Distinguished by black ring handles, these German-made scissors reportedly feature a razor sharp knife-edged cutting blade, while the opposing blade is serrated. They are designed for superior cutting action and preventing tissue slippage. Backed by Spectrum’s famous lifetime warranty, Spectrum SuperCut scissors are available in many patterns and sizes.

For more information: www.spectrumsurgical.com

August 27, 2008 – Nueterra Healthcare (Leawood, KS) said it will implement McKesson’s healthcare information technology in three community hospitals that it is building.

August 27, 2008 – Draeger Medical Inc. said its enhanced and exclusive partnership with Intensive Care On-Line Network (ICON) to provide 24/7 clinical and educational support for Draeger ventilation equipment now including the Babylog 8000 .

Aug. 27, 2008 — Electrocardiographically gated 64-multidetector row coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) was 99 percent as effective in ruling out obstructive coronary artery stenosis as the more expensive and invasive coronary angiography traditionally used by physicians, according to a multi-center study on the accuracy of cardiac imaging technology.

August 26, 2008 - GE Healthcare is showcasing new enhancements to its Voluson compact ultrasound imaging platforms together with its consoles designed to enable early diagnosis and clinical confidence for women’s healthcare at the 18th World Congress of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) Aug. 24-28 in Chicago.

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