July 2, 2008 - Xoft Inc. launched the EXIBT Study (Electronic Xoft Intersociety Brachytherapy Trial), a national Electronic Brachytherapy patient registry under oversight from three national physician societies, the American Brachytherapy Society (ABS), the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS), and the American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO).

The first patient was successfully enrolled and treated in the registry by Peter Beitsch, M.D., the Dallas Breast Center and Timothy Nichols, M.D., the Northpoint Cancer Center in Dallas, Texas.

July 2, 2008 - Montecito Medical Ventures (MMV) formed an alliance by purchasing two placement contracts from medical technology company Accuray, manufacturers of the CyberKnife radiosurgery system, creating a program that gives healthcare providers that are affiliated with Montecito Medical access to medical technologies through its financing program.

MMV will make a pool of investment capital for healthcare transactions available to providers interested in acquiring CyberKnife or other advanced medical technologies.

July 2, 2008 - Cancer clinicians need to understand and consider the economic impact of new interventions, which often have substantial costs, according to a report appearing in the July/August issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, stating that healthcare budget constraints have made it necessary for clinicians to be aware of the relative costs and benefits of new interventions used in cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment and support services for patients.

July 2, 2008 - The American College of Radiology (ACR) Education Center now offers comprehensive, interactive radiology education on workstations from 11 different vendors allowing each participant to receive instruction on the system that they are accustomed to and directly apply the training received in radiology’s “classroom of the future” to their clinical practice.

July 2, 2008 - DMS Imaging, a member of DMS Health Group located in Fargo, ND, was awarded a three-year term of accreditation in digital mammography mobile services as the result of a recent survey by the American College of Radiology.

DMS currently provides digital mammography mobile services to women in northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota, with services scheduled expand to other portions of these states as well as into South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.

July 2, 2008 — Using a Blue Gene supercomputer, scientists of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory demonstrated reportedly the most extensive simulation yet of real human bone structure.

This development could lead to better clinical tools to improve the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis.

July 2, 2008 - TomoTherapy Inc. closed its Treatment Quality Challenge, originally offering $250,000 to any U.S. cancer center that could surpass the quality of a helical TomoTherapy treatment plan using a single-rotation Varian RapidArc plan delivered in two minutes or less, ending the three-month program without a single entry.

The system was built on a CT scanner platform, thereby integrating true CT Imaging with continuous, 360-degree delivery of targeted radiation.

The CyberKnife System, which will be showcased at ASTRO 2008 by Accuray, aims to deliver high-dose, hypofractionated radiosurgery treatments.

Using robotic technologies and continual image guidance, the CyberKnife System aims to deliver targeting accuracy with the ability to automatically correct for intra-fraction target motion without interrupting treatment or having to reposition the patient.

The system delivers beams that move in real-time with 3D respiratory motion throughout the respiratory cycle.

July 1, 2008 -The sterilization and disinfectant market in Europe is mature and saturated, offering little scope for technological innovation, and the complete lack of product differentiation is hampering competition, according to a new market analysis by Frost & Sullivan.

July 1, 2008 - MDA Technologies recently installed MDA TransQuest, a real-time wireless patient transport dispatch system, at Howard County General Hospital (HCGH), a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Columbia, MD.

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