April 2, 2008 – RealVision revealed the new FVT series products at DHIMS 2008, designed for medical imaging applications and based on RealVision Fine View Technology.

FVT 200, used with IT/consumer monitors, works to provide a safe and reliable solution for review station and clinical imaging applications. It adds two additional bits to the native data, and provides 10-bit look-up-tables for each RGB component. This generates in a palette of 1,021 grayscale tones, from which 256 tones can be simultaneously displayed.

April 2, 2008 - At the Japan Radiology Congress 2008 (JRC 2008), the Sectra Group will feature its next-generation PACS, the IDS7/dx, a high-end diagnostic workstation.

April 2, 2008 - The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) said that the recent multi-center study presented Tuesday by Cardiologist James K. Min, M.D., at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Chicago demonstrates that coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) is cost-saving for patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). CCTA is a medical imaging tool that detects CAD without surgery or catheterization within seconds. Dr.

April 2, 2008 - A panel of orthopedic surgeons at the recent American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Specialty Day held as part of the 2008 AAOS Annual Meeting in San Francisco discussed the most recent concepts involved in deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolus and their effect on foot and ankle surgery.

April 2, 2008 - Bracco Diagnostics Inc. completed the acquisition of E-Z-EM Inc., manufacturer of contrast media and medical devices for gastrointestinal (GI) radiology, to support the sales of E-Z-EM’s injection systems and the EZ Chem blood analyzer, a deal totaling over $241 million

April 2, 2008 – Siemens has added a mammography digitizing system from Carestream Healthcare Inc. to its Accessory Solutions product portfolio and will be offered through Siemens to U.S. healthcare providers.

Carestream Health’s specialized digitizer enables mammography facilities to transition to digital imaging by converting prior film-based diagnostic and screening mammograms into a digital imaging format so they can be viewed in conjunction with digital mammography exams on a diagnostic workstation.

April 1, 2008 - "CCTA may be used as a cost-efficient alternative to nuclear stress testing for evaluation of patients with suspected coronary artery disease,"? said James Min, M.D., New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY, at at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting in Chicago, IL.

April 2, 2008 — IntraOp Medical Corp. received an order for the Mobetron from the Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, in Bogota, Colombia, marking the first Mobetron in Latin America, as well as the first OR-ready radiation device in South America.

IntraOp’s Mobetron is a mobile electron beam radiation device that applies a direct application of intraoperative electron-beam radiation therapy (IOERT) to a tumor during cancer surgery.

April 1, 2008 - Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. introduced its Advanced Image Processing (AIP) technology for its Infinix X-ray product line designed for improved device and vessel visualization for interventional procedures at this year's American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting in Chicago.

Carestream Health’s new turnkey Carestream Virtual 3D Solution provides the same advanced 3D processing, comparative viewing of MR and CT studies and other functionality that is currently integrated with its KODAK CARESTREAM PACS platform, but also features advanced display protocols that work to reduce setup time for image review and streaming technology that speeds performance even in low-bandwidth environments.

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