March 7, 2008 – The TRENDS conference in trauma and cardiovascular nursing and high-acuity med-surg is set for April 7-10, 2008 at the Valley Forge Convention Center in King of Prussia, PA.

The event is sponsored by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter-AACN and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN).

GE's SnapShot Pulse offers improved dose reduction results for both diagnostic cardiac and neuro perfusion CT exams and has been reportedly proven to reduce a patient's radiation exposure by up to 83 percent.

Accompanied by the SnapShot Pulse will be the GE's LightSpeed VCT XT, a CT scanner that reportedly maintains high-quality imaging while reducing patients' radiation exposure by up to 70 percent for diagnostic cardiac scans.

March 6, 2008 - SonoSite featured its M-Turbo hand-carried ultrasound system at NCBC 2008.

The system was designed for use in the full range of clinical applications at the point of care, reportedly delivering an exponential increase in raw processing power for improved image clarity across all exam types, including breast imaging.

March 6, 2008 - Featured at NCBC 2008, the Cassi II Rotational Core Biopsy System by Sanarus Medical is reportedly the first large core biopsy device that is fully automated, self contained, hand-held and disposable.

March 6, 2008 - The Aurora 1.5T Dedicated Breast MRI System features its UltraRODEO Plus fat and normal ductal tissue suppression technique, AuroraCAD integrated diagnostic software, Aurora SUPERSHIM and fully integrated and MRI-guided AuroraBIOPSY functionality.

March 6, 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 6, 2008 – The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of NEMA, today praised the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) decision to add CT colonography (CTC), also known as virtual colonoscopy, as another acceptable screening exam for the early detection and prevention of colorectal cancer for adults age 50 years and older.

March 6, 2008 – Electronic medical record provider MedcomSoft Inc. was awarded KLAS Enterprises’ 2007 Year-End Best in KLAS Award in the Ambulatory (1-5 Physicians) category during the HIMSS conference in Orlando, FL.

March 5, 2008 – Combining PET and CT for radiation therapy treatment planning in head and neck carcinoma patients provides local and regional disease control in comparison to CT alone, said a study in the March 1 issue of the International Journal for Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.

March 6, 2008 - Carestream Health Inc. released the new Kodak DRYVIEW 5800 Laser Imager designed for radiology departments, imaging centers and small clinics and dedicated modality printing, delivering up to 75 radiographic films per hour with a time to first print of 80 seconds for 35-by-43-cm film.

Two film drawers accommodate five film sizes: 20-by-25-cm, 25-by-30-cm, 35-by-35-cm, 35-by-43-cm and 28-by-35-cm. The 28-by-35-cm film size is reportedly ideal for printing multiformat images from computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) systems.

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