July 25, 2007 - Siemens highlighted MVision, an IGRT system that is said to deliver outstanding image quality for accurate patient position verification and adjustment, at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), taking place July 22-26, 2007.

July 23, 2007 - CMS Inc. has completed internal and external validation testing for its new Monaco IMRT planning system, which has gained the European CE mark, and is now applying to the Food and Drug Administration for 510(k) clearance to distribute Monaco in the U.S. market.

July 23, 2007 - Calypso Medical announced that it intends to interface the company's Calypso 4D localization system to Varian's treatment planning system and linear accelerators to support precise radiotherapy treatments for cancer patients.

July 23, 2007 - CMS Inc. announced the signing of a collaboration agreement to provide treatment planning support for XiO, a new single-room proton beam radiotherapy system being developed by Still River Systems.

CMS and Still River Systems will work together to ensure that CMS’s XiO treatment planning system interfaces with and supports the specific planning requirements of Still River Systems’ Clinatron 250 proton treatment system currently in development.

July 23, 2007 - CMS Inc. has been selected by ProCure Treatment Centers Inc., developers of a network of cancer treatment centers across the U.S., to supply proton therapy software planning solutions for its first proton therapy center in Oklahoma City, OK.

July 20, 2007 – Mediware Information Systems announced today that they have completed an agreement under which Mediware will market Neoteric’s BloodTrack transfusion administration and tracking components in North America and integrate these technologies into HCLL, Mediware’s next-generation blood transfusion management system.

July 20, 2007 – Cardinal Health recently announced an exclusive, four-year distribution agreement with HemCon Medical Technologies Inc. to provide its new line of hemorrhage control bandages to hospitals, surgery centers and physician offices in the United States.

July 20, 2007 — MedAir AB announced the launch of its OxyCheck fingertip pulse oximeter, a medical monitoring device that performs fast and accurate measurement of oxygen saturation and pulse rate.

MedAir AB expects that OxyCheck will offer a performance solution to a competitive global marketplace that has recently seen an increase in low- priced oximeters. OxyCheck has undergone extensive testing by independent laboratories to prove its accuracy and durability and also has CE Mark.

July 20, 2007 - Barco displayed its Coronis Color 3MP DL at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting July 22-26 in Minneapolis, MN. With the Coronis 3MP DL all modalities and all color-enriched applications can be viewed from a single, multimodality display system. Users no longer have to choose between color and grayscale.

July 20, 2007 - Dune Medical Devices (Caesarea, Israel) received the 2007 Frost & Sullivan European Technology Innovation of the Year Award in surgical oncology for its novel intraoperative breast cancer probe. Using Radio Frequency (RF) Spectroscopy, the device provides surgeons with the malignancy status of breast cancer margins in real-time.

The Dune hand-held probe reportedly holds significant promise to reduce re-excision procedures, improve patient outcomes and minimize surgical expenses.

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