March 25, 2008 - Radon Medical Imaging Corp. and Amerinet GPO of St. Louis completed a Group Purchasing Agreement for Radon to be a supplier of Barco display products to Amerinet members for a three-year period.

Radon has been a value-added reseller for Barco display products for a number of years. Radon's knowledge in the area of digital imaging products and support contributes to its ability to also advise customers as to model and feature selection needed for particular applications.

March 25, 2008 - General Hospital Vienna of Vienna, Austria, successfully completed its first Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) treatment, reportedly one of the first to use this treatment option, designed to give simultaneous control of the linear accelerator gantry position, and speed the leaves and angle of the multileaf collimator and dose rate.

March 25, 2008 – MRI findings may be able to calculate the chance of cancer returning or spreading after treatment in patients about to partake in radiation therapy for prostate cancer, according to a new study published in the April issue of the journal Radiology.

March 25, 2008 - A special type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can depict changes in blood volume in the brain that often precede cancerous transformation of brain tumors, according to a new study published in the April issue of the journal Radiology.

March 18, 2008 – A special type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can depict changes in blood volume in the brain that often precede cancerous transformation of brain tumors, according to a new study published in the April issue of the journal Radiology.

March 24, 2008 – Nucletron will be running a series of “Essentials in Brachytherapy” workshops across North American, starting next month in Quebec City.

The full-day CAMPEP, MDCB and ASRT accredited workshops are for radiation oncologists, medical physicists, dosimetrists, oncology nurses and institutions specializing in brachytherapy looking to expend their current treatment offerings and those interested in learning about brachtherapy as a treatment option for breast, gynecologic, prostate, head and neck, and skin cancer.

March 24, 2008 - The American public believes doctors and physicians would do a good job running hospitals in their community and they want doctors to make decisions about patient care and how hospitals are run, according to a survey conducted by Lake Research Partners.

The survey also indicated that Americans believe doctors should be allowed to own hospitals where they work and that Congress ought to vote to allow this practice to continue.

March 24, 2008 – AdvanDx received Frost and Sullivan’s 2008 Technology Innovation of the Year Award in the field of rapid in-vitro molecular diagnostic technology with its PNA FISH, which is used by hospitals to quickly identify bloodstream pathogens in hours instead of days.

The rapid PNA FISH results enable laboratories to report critical information to physicians and pharmacists earlier to ensure optimal therapy and help reduce mortality rates for patients afflicted with bloodstream infections, the company said.

March 24, 2008 - Varian Medical Systems has formed a council of leading cancer centers in North America and Europe to further the development of clinical protocols using its RapidArc radiotherapy technology for fast and precise cancer treatments.

March 24, 2008 - Toshiba America Medical Systems installed its 500th Vantage 1.5T MR system at Jefferson Regional Medical Center (JRMC) in Pine Bluff, AR, looking to use the system for orthopedic, head and abdomen imaging.

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