Merge Healthcare recently introduced Merge Ortho, a digital workstation solution that reportedly helps orthopaedic specialists save time and improve clinical effectiveness in orthopaedic planning and diagnosis.

UniWeb PACS, a multimodality Web-based solution from EBM Technologies, has received FDA clearance. EBM UniWeb can reportedly store, communicate, process and display images within the system and/or across a computer network at distributed locations.
EBM Technologies reports that the system can display multivendor and multimodality images including FFDM and can be used for interpretation in a primary diagnostic setting.

The EnSite System Version 7 software and EnSite Fusion Registration Module are new products designed to help physicians create more detailed images of the heart for navigating during electrophysiology (EP) procedures that treat complex arrhythmias.
The system provides 3D cardiac models that reportedly help physicians diagnose and treat many abnormal heart rhythms, including atrial fibrillation.

Kubtec has received approval to market its XPERT 40 digital specimen radiography device from the FDA. The 510(k) premarket approval notification adds to the CE, CSA, Health Canada and CDRH certifications that have already been obtained for the device.

Fifteen years ago, a CT scan of Nefertiti’s bust stored at Berlin’s Altes Museum, revealed that a second structure was hidden inside. This structure was presumed to be a cast of the subject’s face, but the image resolution was too poor to be conclusive. With recent advances in CT scanning, researchers called for a repeat scan to document the structure within the bust. Results of the scan, which was conducted using a Siemens SOMATOM Sensation 64-Slice CT, are included in a National Geographic Channel television special.