In a small study presented at the RSNA, researchers performed elastography, an ultrasound technique that measures how easily breast lumps compress and return to their original shape, on 80 women to distinguish between benign and malignant lesions with nearly 100 percent accuracy. Elastography correctly identified 17 out of 17 cancerous tumors and 105 out of 106 harmless lesions.
If future studies result in similar findings, clinicians are hopeful that elastography could substitute biopsies, saving thousands of women from the waiting, cost, discomfort and anxiety.

Siemens Energy and Automation, Inc. released of the SCD 21310 3MP, a new 3MP LCD color flat panel display designed with a high brightness and contrast for both color and grayscale medical imaging applications.

The SCD 21310 features all the elements of Siemens' fully automated stability system for DICOM compliance including, Integrated Stability System (ISS) sensor, embedded DICOM-compliant look-up tables and compatibility with Siemens quality assurance software SMfit ACT.

MedLink International Inc. today announced an agreement with Doshi Diagnostic Imaging Services to deliver radiology reports and related DICOM images to approximately 20,000 referring physician offices in the New York area. The referring physicians will use the MedLink EHR to view current and past reports on their patients.

Shareholders in Australia's largest private radiology company, DCA Group, voted today to accept a $1.3 billion takeover bid from private equity firm CVC Capitol Partners. DCA shareholders were told CVC intends to expand the company, adhering to the principles of clinical independence and a commitment to resident and patient care.

The deal still requires Australian government approval.

Five big U.S. employers launched a computerized health record system for employees on Wednesday that they hope will help set a standard for America's messy health care system, and save money and lives.

Patients would control who can see their records, which they can access even if they change jobs or doctors.

The five companies will make the system -- which will store an individual's information on a secure Web site -- available to their 2.5 million employees and retirees next year.

The World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety (Solutions), the World Alliance for Patient Safety and the Commonwealth Fund today announced a seven-country collaborative project that will leverage the implementation of five standardized patient safety solutions to prevent avoidable catastrophic events in hospitals. The "Action on Patient Safety" project will be coordinated by the WHO Collaborating Centre, which is led by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and its affiliate Joint Commission International.

Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced the Axiom Luminos dRF, a new remote fluoroscopy system with flat detector technology, and announced enhancements to the Axiom Aristos FX Plus, the company’s fully automatic digital radiography system.

Luminos is a remote radiographic and fluoroscopic solution with FD technology that makes the system a fully digital solution for fluoroscopic and radiographic examinations. The system is specially designed for fluoroscopy imaging of obese patients, supporting up to 500 pounds static weight.

The University of Maryland's Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center is among the first cancer centers in the nation to treat patients with Trilogy, a new image-guided radiation therapy system from Varian Medical Systems that delivers high-dose radiation to even the smallest tumors. The equipment can target an area as small as a pencil point, minimizing the damage to healthy tissue. It also reportedly delivers radiation doses more than 60 percent faster than conventional linear accelerators used to treat cancer, which means that patients can receive treatments in much less time.

A key milestone in the imaging of Alzheimer’s Disease has been reached by radiochemists from the University of Pittsburgh and GE Healthcare. The university is conducting a study aimed at obtaining preliminary information on the performance of flourine-18 labelled Pittsburgh Compound B (F-18 PiB) to identify amyloid deposits in subjects with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Early results are encouraging, researchers said.

Medicsight PLC and 3mensio Medical Imaging BV have announced a partnership agreement to incorporate Medicsight's ColonCAD and LungCAD image analysis software tools within 3mensio’s medical imaging product offerings.

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