May 19, 2008 - An extensive survey by InMedica on the use of ultrasound equipment in Western European hospitals and imaging centers has shown that 73 percent of cardiologists expect to be using a hand-held system within the next five years.

Cardiologists expect portable and hand-held ultrasound systems to be increasingly used in emergency situations and intensive care units, which are growing applications for ultrasound. The miniaturization of ultrasound systems has fueled their use in new areas such as emergency care.

May 19, 2008 - Carestream Health's PACS workstation with on-board 3D tools completed all clinical imaging exams within the allotted timeframe in the "Workstation Face-Off" at Stanford University's 10th Annual International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT in Las Vegas, challenging providers of advanced 3D image processing technologies to process and interpret four complex computed tomography (CT) imaging studies.

May 19, 2008 - Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm is slated to be the first in Sweden to offer cancer patients advanced RapidArc treatments, placing orders for three RapidArc systems along with four replacement Clinac linear accelerators, to consolidate the city's radiotherapy software and hardware into an integrated network for greater efficiency.

RapidArc radiotherapy technology is designed to deliver image-guided, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) reportedly two to eight times faster and more precisely than conventional IMRT or helical tomotherapy.

May 19, 2008 – GE’s Centricity PACS-IW (formerly Dynamic Imaging IntegradWeb PACS) products have been ranked No. 1 by KLAS in their annual PACS-Acute Care report, which ranked the top twelve PACS vendors and surveyed over 600 hospitals with 200 or more beds on current vendor performance and trends in the PACS market.

Centricity PACS-IW was the only vendor to receive a perfect score in the evaluated business indicators, including completion of contract, implementation within budget, desire to recommend peer and overall ranking compared to peers.

May 19, 2008 – KLAS named the REGIUS Nano CR “Best in KLAS” in its 2008 Single Plate CR report, earning a high score of 92.2 out of 100, slightly more than four points over KLAS’ CR system average performance score.

May 19, 2008 – Viztek formed an exclusive agreement with CMT Medical Technologies for the U. S. distribution of CMT’s SmartRAD family of direct radiography (DR) products, combining the CMT DR system and Viztek’s proprietary Web-based Opal-RAD PACS and Opal-RIS solutions to provide an improved digital solution for a wide range of applications.

May 19, 2008 - Pegasus Imaging released PICTools medical image compression technologies for 64-bit Sun Solaris platforms, including compression and decompression of JPEG 2000 (including JPIP, 3D, high bit depths), Lossy JPEG (sequential), Lossless JPEG (including high bit depths) and JPEG-LS (lossless and near lossless) image files.

May 19, 2008 - Philips Healthcare and AMIRSYS are working together to integrate the STATdx Diagnostic Support System with Philips iSite PACS, looking to reduce the time required to research and complete a difficult imaging analysis.

Designed to support the busy practicing radiologist by increasing speed and accuracy, the integration of STATdx with iSite PACS also assists orthopedic surgeons, neurologists, women’s health centers and emergency departments in their efforts to improve patient care and overall office workflow.

Richardson Electronics released 2MP and 3MP LCD as part of its Image Systems high bright color series, offering high brightness and contrast ratios, reportedly ideal for diagnostic imaging and clinical applications requiring a fusion of grayscale and color imaging, such as PET, 3D, cardiology and nuclear medicine.

Roentgen Works is a new workflow solution designed to enable radiology groups of all sizes to provide outsourced radiology reading services, created in response to an increased need in the radiology community for a solution that enables group practices to provide a reading environment for primary diagnosis among multiple facilities.

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