November 29, 2007 – TOTOKU Electronics Inc. showed its new 800cd/m2 super luminance, color, CCL354i2 3-megapixel LCD, flat panel display screens for reviewing both color and monochrome images during the 2007 RSNA meeting.

The company says the new monitors will be available in the spring of 2008 and will be cheaper than many current black and white screens. The high contrast screens and high light output makes them able to be used for black and white X-ray image review, which require more brightness than most color monitors offer.

November 29, 2007 - InSite One Inc. announced that the InDex Archive has surpassed 1.5 billion individual images and over 20 million studies stored for over 500 sites nationally, amounting to about 3 percent or 9 million of the U.S. patient population.

November 28, 2007 - Effective immediately, DatCard Systems Inc., global supplier of DICOM digital distribution solutions, will distribute Rimage Corp.’s family of on-demand digital publishing systems to the medical market, further strengthening the two companies’ already established business partnership.

November 29, 2007 - Planar Systems Inc. today announced that a clinical trial conducted at Emory University’s Breast Imaging Center in Atlanta, GA, showed that its Stereoscopic Digital Mammography (SDM) system showed that false-positive findings at screening were reduced by 49 percent and false-negative results were reduced by 40 percent, compared to standard two-dimensional mammography.

November 28, 2007 - 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.

November 28, 2007 - 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 28, 2007 - GE Healthcare's suite of Centricity solutions targeted for hospitals and outpatient imaging centers is built on Centricity’s business process and advanced clinical capabilities. The suite provides the robust Web-based accessibility of IntegradWeb solutions recently acquired from Dynamic Imaging.

Centricity Radiology-IW for hospitals is the first product to result from the Dynamic Imaging acquisition and will offer Web-based portability, instantaneous image reporting and scalable business processes.

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.

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