November 28, 2007 - GE Healthcare announced improved dose reduction results for both diagnostic cardiac and neuro perfusion exams at RSNA 2007.

GE’s SnapShot Pulse technology (prospectively gated diagnostic cardiac CT exam) has been proven by clinicians performing thousands of exams at sites around the world to reduce a patient’s radiation exposure by up to 83 percent and improve image quality, according to the company.

November 28, 2007 - At RSNA 2007 Sectra focused on solutions for radiology trends such as the data explosion, work- and image sharing solutions, enterprise control solutions and in the mammography area, the latest within photon counting.

Sectra launched the latest addition to its next-generation PACS workstation family, the IDS7/dx. IDS7/dx is a comprehensive high-end diagnostic workstation.

November 28, 2007 – Agfa HealthCare announced at RSNA that Health Canada has issued the Belgian company a Canadian Medical Device License, authorizing them to sell their Computed Radiography (CR) Mammography system in Canada.

GE Healthcare has introduced the Signa HDxt as the next-generation High Definition MR scanner, available in both 1.5T and 3.0T field strengths. Highlighting the new system are two new marquee applications called Cube and IDEAL.

GE Healthcare IT unveiled at RSNA Centricity OneView, a web-based clinical information and workflow management system designed to connect multiple discrete RIS and PACS solutions.

Centricity OneView is a Web-based solution and a single point of access for radiologists and technologists. It reportedly connects organizations to images, reports and status information regardless of the system from which they originated. Patient imaging records are comprehensive and consolidated, and accessible.

November 27, 2007 - OrthoView announced that NYU Medical Center has successfully integrated OrthoView’s Version 5.0 orthopaedic planning software into NYU’s PACS.

The orthopaedic digital planning solution, used in hospitals and clinics around the world, reportedly provides orthopaedic surgeons with an unrivalled library of digital templates for joint replacement, trauma procedures, limb deformity correction and pediatric assessment. OrthoView can be integrated into many of the most well-known PACS including Siemens, McKesson, GE Healthcare, FUJIFILM Medical Systems and others.

November 27, 2007 - GE Healthcare has launched the company's new mobile system for bone mineral density (BMD) and body composition testing, to help expand the reach of healthcare to more patients while making diagnostic tools more accessible to physicians and clinicians. This is GE's first offering of its "fan-beam" X-ray bone densitometer technology in a mobile van using Dual-Energy X-ray Absorbtiometry, or DEXA scanning, to measure and calculate bone, fat and muscle mass.

The new Mobile Prodigy and other Lunar technologies are on display at RSNA.

November 27, 2007 - Vital Images Inc. announced at RSNA 2007 a worldwide distribution and licensing agreement with Toshiba Medical Systems Corp. providing advanced visualization and analysis solutions for Toshiba’s newly launched AquilionONE dynamic volume CT scanner.

November 27, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare it has been awarded a new, three-year, multi-source contract by Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., the group purchasing unit of Premier Inc., to provide Enterprise Image Management Solutions (EIMS) and services to the alliance's more than 1,500 member hospitals and 49,000 other healthcare sites.

Agfa HealthCare launched two new product-related e-learning courses covering the company’s latest PACS solution IMPAX 6 and an introduction to IPlan, its leading hospital scheduling system, both providing interactive e-learning packages that allow training for users of Agfa HealthCare solutions a chosen pace.

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