July 11, 2007 – Carestream health recently announced that it will launch its new RIS/PACS technology designed for outpatient imaging centers, this week at American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) meeting in Orlando, FL.

The new outpatient solution is a turnkey digital imaging and information management package that is designed to improve workflow automation, operational efficiency and business optimization.

July 11, 2007 - The 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), which takes place July 22-26, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN, at the Minneapolis Convention Center, will feature a hybrid MR-X-ray system, an ultrasound for breast, among other new technologies.

July 11, 2007 - InSite One Inc., announced advances in its InDex archiving services that will be based on a 64-bit server processor Linux platform, which will increase the response capacity and expand online data management with larger core memory configurations.

The new InDex 4.0 release includes new configuration options for all InDex services that reportedly provide for higher availability with redundant proxies sharing the work-load and common network attached storage.

July 11, 2007 - Medrad Inc. introduced a new extravasation detector technology for the Stellant CT Injection System that directly senses extravasation pooling under the skin during a Computed Tomography (CT) procedure, this week at the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.

The Medrad XDS extravasation detector is a patented product designed to prevent moderate to severe contrast extravasations that may seriously injure patients.

North American Scientific will showcase its ClearPath, a high-dose rate radiation treatment created for breast brachytherapy, aiming to enhance current accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) treatment options. The company’s multichannel catheter system, which is inserted through a single incision, is designed to allow for low-dose or high-dose therapy. ClearPath reportedly offers physicians greater flexibility in treatment planning and dose optimization to the target region, while minimizing exposure to nearby healthy tissue.

CIVCO Medical Solutions will present its new carbon fiducial markers that reportedly optimize imaging characteristics for emerging IGRT modalities such as kV imaging and cone-beam CT.
CIVCO’s carbon markers reportedly produce clearly identifiable images with now widely available kV imagers, providing enhanced resolution with low-density materials. The new markers may also eliminate artifacts in CT scans.

Siemens Introduces ACUSON Antares 5.0
The ACUSON Antares 5.0 release offers innovations in five clinical application areas, including breast and OB/GYN imaging. Siemens’ eSie Touch elasticity imaging technology includes a speed-of-sound adaptation designed for fatty breast imaging and bundles with Siemens’ Advanced SieClear spatial compounding. This provides 13 lines of sight applied at greater steering angles, as well as Dynamic TCE tissue contrast enhancement technology.
For OB/GYN applications, the Antares 5.0 release offers Advanced fourSight technology, a suite of

Medrad Inc. introduced the XDS, a new extravasation detector technology for the Stellant CT Injection System that, for the first time, directly senses extravasation pooling under the skin during a Computed Tomography (CT) procedure, this week at the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.

July 10, 2007 — A new hand sanitation device for use by hospital healthcare workers and doctors has been demonstrated by Germgard Lighting LLC.

July 10, 2007 — The American Medical Association Foundation announced the election of Barbara P. Rockett, M.D. as its new president.

Dr. Barbara P. Rockett is a practicing surgeon in Newton, MA. She has a long and distinguished history of service to the profession of medicine and has served on the AMA Foundation Board of Directors since January 2001. Her term extends until July 2009.

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