November 2006 - Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. has announced a new partnership with CVCTA Education and San Francisco Advanced Medical Imaging, a Liberty Pacific Medical Imaging Company, to serve as the company’s newest education and training partner.

LPMI’s San Francisco Advanced Medical Imaging recently installed Toshiba’s Aquilion 64 CFX system, an advanced cardiac CT system and the cornerstone of the program.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation to Repligen Corp.’s synthetic human secretin known as RG1068, to be used with magnetic resonance imaging of the pancreas. Orphan drug designation qualifies Repligen for seven years of exclusive marketing rights in the United States, if the company is first to receive marketing approval for RG1068 for MRI imaging of the pancreas.

Siemens Medical Solutions has announced plans to introduce AXIOM Artis dBA Twin, an innovative imaging system designed for universal angiography neuroradiology, at the Radiological Society of North America’s conference in Chicago next week. The AXIOM Artis dBA Twin reportedly features the largest biplane anatomical coverage available, and it is uniquely equipped with two 30x40-centimeter flat detectors.

Nuclear medicine products firm IBA Molecular displayed Empact, its new education marketing initiative for PET and PET/CT. Empact offers marketing tools specifically designed to target referring physicians and instructs users in effectively marketing PET.

Gamma Medica-Ideas debuted its fifth-generation Flex Triumph pre-clinical imaging system, which can be configured with PET, SPECT or CT subsystems, or any combination of the three.

Swissray International Inc. has introduced its newest DR system, the ddRCompact, which it touts as state-of-the-art DR technology competitively priced. The system incorporates the new digital high-definition silicon solid-state detector with micro lens technology, delivering spatial resolution at low radiation doses.

Cedara Software unveiled its Cedara PET/CT application and its work-in progress Cedara I-Response, which visualizes tumor response to specific therapies. Available for integration into existing applications or as a standalone workstation, the software has standard features for worklist management and offers configurable layouts.

Toshiba America Medical Systems demonstrated software upgrades for its Aquilion series of CT scanners. The Version 3.0 software improvements include enhanced DICOM protocols and upgraded user interface for fluoroscopy applications. The new software began shipping in August.

Philips Medical Systems showed off new workstation software for its Brilliance 64-slice CT program that includes tools for cardiac vessel analysis. Extended Brilliance Workspace 3.5, scheduled for release in June, features electrophysiological planning for radiofrequency ablation and a function enabling tumor localization on the CT console.

Health care advocates have long encouraged physicians to switch to computerized medical records, saying they could improve patient care and increase efficiency. Doctors, however, have been more concerned about the high price tag — often more than $20,000 per physician for software, hardware and Internet connections — as well as having to maintain a computer network. Surveys estimate less than 20 percent of doctors have fully automated their offices.

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