September 6, 2007 - Fluke Biomedical released the Ansur plug-in for all models of QED 6 Defibrillator/Transcutaneous Pacer Analyzer to improve testing quality, repeatability and productivity using a single human interface, no matter how many different mainframe testers are used.

September 6, 2007 - Zotec Partners, a solutions firm providing proprietary medical billing services and licensed software to hospital-based physician specialty practices, announced today that Health Inventures has selected them as their exclusive billing and radiology information services (RIS) provider.

Zotec's RIS is resource-based and template driven, which will allow Health Inventures’ imaging centers to effectively manage their practice scheduling and workflow needs. Features available include the ability to overbook, block and reschedule appointments.

September 6, 2007 - Patient Comfort Systems Inc. recently introduced MRI table pad and patient positioning sets specially developed for stereotactic breast biopsies.

The new Patient Comfort sets address the need for enhanced comfort during these procedures that require women to lie prone for extended time periods. The cushioning system will reportedly make lengthy exams more tolerable and reduce movement during critical exam times as well as possible abortion of procedures.

September 6, 2007 – Sectra recently announced that the Oncológico hospital in San Sebastián, Spain, has invested in a complete digital mammography solution from the company, reportedly enabling the hospital to offer customers safe and efficient mammography examinations at the lowest radiation dose on the market without compromising image quality.

September 6, 2007 - Using an imaging technique called optical projection tomography (OPT), originally developed at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Human Genetics Unit based in London, England, MRC scientists have generated startling 3D images of the inside of a fruit fly for the first time, possibly helping to speed up genetic research into Alzheimer's and other human diseases that affect brain cells.

September 6, 2007 - Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company, announced the introduction of a C4 enabled I-ReadMammo, creating a plug-in version of its digital mammography solution, designed for modular integration into any C4 enabled imaging solution, such as a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS).

Cedara also reported that several imaging equipment vendors are integrating this new C4 enabled version of I-ReadMammo into their PACS solutions.

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.

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