May 15, 2008 - Barco developed a new set of drivers for its Nio and Coronis product lines that are seamlessly compatible with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, reportedly enabling customers to upgrade to Vista without complications.

Barco's new Vista-ready drivers will continue to support legacy operating systems as well. The Vista-compatible systems are immediately available for commercial distribution.

May 15, 2008 - Following the introduction of the dual-source Computed Tomography (CT) system, SOMATOM Definition, with two X-ray tubes that simultaneously generate different energies, Siemens has developed 10 dual energy (DE) applications.

Candelis released the new iMed-Stor 300, a dedicated DICOM-compliant archive appliance engineered specifically to provide secure management of digital medical images and studies for stand-alone imaging operations, at SIIM 2008.

Barco developed a new set of drivers for its Nio and Coronis product lines that are seamlessly compatible with Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system, reportedly enabling customers to upgrade to Vista without complications.

Barco’s new Vista-ready drivers will continue to support legacy operating systems as well. The Vista-compatible systems are immediately available for commercial distribution.

The Coronis Fusion 6MP DL, a 30-inch color LCD that can be used as two 3 MP heads or one wide-screen 6 MP display, offering radiologists to custom-organize their workspace.

Acuo Technologies will be showcasing the 6.0 version of its DICOM Services Grid solution, a distributed framework for managing medical imaging volume, featuring full XDS-I Source and XDS-I Consumer functionality.

Version 6.0 also includes several partner API integrations to include DICOM services on the Cisco Medical Grade Network, a high performance EMC Centera and Document integration and IBM GMAS integration, which will provide the healthcare marketplace a choice of proven infrastructure technologies to manage medical imaging and related clinical content.

May 14, 2008 - USGI Medical Inc. said it has licensed its incisionless surgery technology to Intuitive Surgical for use in medical robotics applications.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

May 14, 2008 - Broadlane clients, consisting of approximately 1,100 hospitals, selected ScImage for a three-year contract to use its multi-department picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) for radiology, cardiology and other image-producing departments within a healthcare system.

May 14, 2008 - Siemens today said it would extend its strategic alliance with Biosense Webster Inc. by opening up the ACUSON AcuNav ultrasound catheter for use on third party ultrasound systems.

In 2006, the two companies announced an agreement giving Biosense Webster the exclusive worldwide rights to distribute Siemens' ACUSON AcuNav ultrasound catheters, as well as a co-development of the technology in the future.

May 14, 2008 – Due to the high demand of the Brilliance iCT, Philips accelerated its original delivery plans from early 2009, now expecting to have 50 units installed by the end of 2008.

The Brilliance iCT is now installed at the following institutions worldwide: MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, IN; Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C. and Lenox Hill Hospital , New York, NY.

May 14, 2008 - The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System became the first medical center in the U.S. to treat cancer patients with a new technique called RapidArc radiotherapy from Varian Medical Systems.

RapidArc makes it possible to deliver advanced image-guided, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) two to eight times faster than is possible with conventional IMRT or helical tomotherapy, according to Varian.

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