July 18, 2007 – Medtronic’s FDA-cleared Prestige Cervical Disc is the first artificial disc commercially available in the U.S. for use in the neck. The Prestige Cervical Disc may offer patients who suffer from degenerative disc disease the potential to preserve motion at the treated level, as well as offer pain relief and function, the company says.

July 18, 2007 – The New Aurora LED Surgical Lighting system from Skytron is an advancement in bright, cool, high-intensity optics for use in the operating suite. The system provides comfortable and cool surgical light illumination, even for extended cases. Cool, bright and color-correct light is standard along with surgeon’s choice of selectable color temperature for every procedure.

For more information: www.skytron.com

July 17, 2007 - Scientists at India's Sathyabama University have created a portable heart monitor that sends emergency alerts and readings as text messages.

The Bluetooth heart monitor measures electrical signals from the patient's heart, analyzes them to produce an electrocardiogram and can transmit an alert together with the ECG by cell phone text message.

July 18, 2007 – Nucletron will introduce its new microSelectron Digital afterloader that reportedly makes the introduction of brachytherapy or the expansion of current brachytherapy offerings easier, more cost-effective and easily adaptable to future needs of patients and clinicians, at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), July 22-26, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.

July 18, 2007 - Nucletron B.V. recently released version 3.0 of its Oncentra MasterPlan, a treatment planning system that may become the first TPS on the market to facilitate the import of DICOM RT doses from other DICOM-compliant systems, thereby simplifying the evaluation and comparison of plans.

New features will allow users to adapt and streamline their daily work in the radiotherapy clinic. This new release also reportedly allows TMS-Helax users to more easily migrate their patient data and treatment plans into MasterPlan via a DICOM archive.

July 18, 2007 – Nucletron will introduce its new microSelectron Digital afterloader that reportedly makes the introduction of brachytherapy or the expansion of current brachytherapy offerings easier, more cost-effective and easily adaptable to future needs of patients and clinicians, at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), July 22-26, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.

July 18, 2007 - Global Dosimetry Solutions Inc., a division of Mirion Technologies, will display its copper doped quartz fiber in vivo dosimeter, designed to provide a real-time assessment of tissue exposure to radiation during radiodiagnostic and radiotherapeutic procedures, at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), July 22-26, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.

July 18, 2007 - CIVCO Medical Solutions will display a comprehensive line of implantable fiducial markers for image-guided localization, including Gold soft tissue markers that are cross-cut with a special knurling process to inhibit migration and are available in a variety of configurations, at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), July 22-26, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.

July 18, 2007 – BrainLAB announced that the Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute (CARTI) has installed its ExacTrac X-ray 6-D image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) system, reportedly enabling doctors to pinpoint tumors with increased accuracy and treat a wider variety of indications.

July 18, 2007 - North American Scientific Inc. 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, at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), July 22-26, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.

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