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.

FUJIFILM’s Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) system, Fuji Computed Radiography for Mammography (FCRm) is a multiple-reader offering, giving mammography providers multiple equipment configuration combinations.

The centrally located ClearView-CS, multiplate reader serves several rooms, while the ClearView-1m, single plate reader can be installed directly in the exam room. The system provides 18-by-24-cm and 24-by-30-cm fields-of-view, 50-micron pixel sampling and Fuji’s patented dual-side reading technology.

Quest International Inc. recently released an LCD replacement for CRT-based monitors designed for use in cath lab applications and other radiological modalities.

Including a plug and Go mounting base, available exclusively from Quest International, the Q18LCDPD is a 1.3MP, 18-inch, high-brightness, high-contrast, grayscale monitor. The Quest-designed mounting platform and Plug and Go features reportedly allow the unit to be installed using existing mount and slide hardware, working to decrease installation time.

Quest International Inc. recently released its QMDL5PCX for patient monitoring and information management created for vital signs monitoring.

The 15-inch, touchscreen optional, patient monitor is reportedly suitable for any patient care environment and is virtually able to universally replace OEM specific displays even when specific, non -VESA timings are required.

April 2008

Quest International Inc. will showcase at SIIM 2008, true 12-bit, grayscale mammographic images, utilizing an Apple Mac system, OsiriX and the Totoku, ME551i2, medical LCD display.

The company will display the images using the using the Apple Mac Pro 8-Core workstation with two ME551i2 medical, LCD displays. The ME551i2 is a 21.3-inch, 5MP, DICOM-compliant diagnostic display, and is reportedly the only display able to interface with the new 64-bit version of OsiriX, an advanced open- source PACS workstation DICOM viewer.

April 2008

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