The Step & Shoot Cardiac from Toshiba is the company’s newest cardiac imaging innovation for its CT 64-slice configuration, providing high quality CT images of the coronary arteries and heart anatomy at low radiation dose levels and short breath-holds.

Offered as an option for the Philips Brilliance CT, 64-slice configuration, the Step & Shoot Cardiac allows the table to automatically move and stop the rotor within gantry spins to acquire images.

Gamma Medica-Ideas will display the latest addition of the new High Resolution CT subsystem to the company’s FLEX Triumph Pre-clinical Imaging Platform that reportedly produces striking improvements in CT imaging.

The Siemens Inveon is a modular concept that offers flexibility, working to enable PET, SPECT and CT data acquisition, reportedly providing the industry’s highest PET resolution and sensitivity. Inveon’s suite of research tools can reportedly help facilitate basic research, as well as the drug development process, allowing researchers to identify specific biological processes, monitor the efficacy of compounds and measure the effects of disease progression over time.

Agfa HealthCare’s IMPAX Digital Mammography Workstation reportedly provides an enhanced diagnostic process by improving the mammography workflow through multimodality breast imaging displays.
IMPAX Digital Mammography Workstation, which is DICOM compliant, supports rapid and simultaneous display of multimodality images and incorporates a data management system that automatically routes relevant data based on a variety of user-definable criteria, including modality, patient and referring physician.

FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA Inc. will be highlighting its end-to-end solution for digital mammography, including its FFDM system Fuji Computed Radiography for Mammography (FCRm) and its multimodality Synapse PACS.
FCRm is designed to provide superior image quality and uniquely presents mammography providers with various equipment configurations to ideally suit their needs. Facilities can select from a centrally located multiplate reader serving several rooms or a single-plate reader installed right in each exam room.

Siemens Medical Solutions will highlight the recently acquired MammoTest prone table, offering clinicians the choice of upright or prone stereotactic systems.

September 5, 2007 - Clinical software maker Allscripts said Columbia University Medical Center in New York City has selected Allscripts as its electronic health record provider for its outpatient physician group and planned community-based Independent Practice Association.
The agreement is the largest in Allscripts. Columbia University Medical Center provides leadership in scientific research and patient care, and its College of Physicians and Surgeons is consistently ranked one of the top medical schools in the nation.

September 4, 2007 - Mediware Information Systems Inc. appointed Thomas K. Mann as the company's new chief executive officer.
Mann joins Mediware following more than 20 years with 3M's healthcare information technology division where he held a wide range of senior management positions. He replaces James Burgess who announced his resignation July 2.

September 5, 2007 — RadNet Managed Imaging Services Inc. ("RMIS"), a wholly owned RadNet subsidiary, will provide management and operational services to 20 imaging centers.

As a potential new growth area, RadNet, through RMIS, will make available its management services to other operators, lenders and equipment manufacturers

RadNet reported that it entered into an agreement with a lender who had just foreclosed upon a chain of 20 imaging centers to assume the management of those imaging centers.

September 5, 2007 - A study in the August 11 issue of The Lancet concludes that screening for breast cancer with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could improve the ability to detect ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), especially high-grade DCIS.
DCIS is a form of preinvasive breast cancer. High-grade DCIS grows quickly and is more likely to develop into invasive breast cancer.

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