Faster and more precise cancer treatment is one of the primary goals of radiation therapy. Until now, gaining speed has come at the expense of risking accuracy. However, new adaptive radiotherapy and radiosurgery technologies promise the best of both worlds — faster dose delivery with greater precision. But could these new techniques render respiratory gating obsolete?
New Spin on IMRT and IGRT

In healthcare there is a lot of interoperability missing. This is rooted in how data capture has been done and how data collection from legacy systems has been integrated. The true value for using service-oriented architecture (SOA) is in the sense that you can build out live and standards-based Web services that can make the integration process happen.

May 8, 2008 - Toshiba America Medical Systems installed the first AquilionONE dynamic volume CT system in the Western U.S. at Nevada Imaging Centers in Las Vegas, producing a 4D clinical video showing up to 16 cm of anatomical coverage, enough to capture the entire brain or heart, and show movement such as blood flow.

May 8, 2008 – The first human procedure using the Volcano OCT imaging catheter, which uses optical coherence tomography (OCT) designed to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of coronary and peripheral vascular disease, was performed by Patrick Serruys, M.D., at the Thoraxcenter, in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

May 7, 2008 - Using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers in The Netherlands were able to detect biochemical differences in the brains of individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia), providing evidence of a long-suspected biological cause for the dysfunction.

May 7, 2008 – Lantheus Medical Imaging initiated CaRES (Contrast Echocardiography REgistry for Safety Surveillance), a multicenter Phase IV observational study that will further evaluate the safety profile of DEFINITY Vial For (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) Injectable Suspension in patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, to explore the safety profile of DEFINITY for which the FDA posted an alert on Oct. 10, 2007.

May 8, 2008 - Carestream Health donated a CR system that enables The Field Museum in Chicago, for the first time, to capture, archive and share digital X-ray images of over one million priceless specimens and artifacts in its Anthropology collection.

The museum is also using a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) from the company for the management, viewing and storage of the growing collection of digital images managed by the museum’s staff.

May 8, 2008 – MEDRAD introduced the Prostate MR Education Program, a new education program to help clinicians perform prostate MR with its eCoil MR Endorectal Coil at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2008 annual meeting.

The program is available for healthcare professionals who image with GE scanners, provides access to experienced researchers with thousands of Prostate MR imaging procedures to their credit.

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. received FDA clearance for two new CT clinical applications, SURECardio Prospective and Variable Helical Pitch (vHP), designed to improve throughput and enhance workflow, while further reducing contrast and radiation dosage.
The applications are available for new Toshiba Aquilion 32- and 64-slice CT systems.

The new Kodak Directview Classic and Elite CR Systems are designed to perform a wide range of exams using standard Kodak Directview CR cassettes. The new systems include automatic image rendering that reportedly eliminates the need for technologists to identify each exam projection and allows users to create customized settings for image presentation (by exam type/body part). These systems also incorporate new image processing software.

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