NEC Display Solutions of America Inc.'s 57-inch MultiSync LCD5710 wide-screen monitor is one of the largest commercial LCDs available.

Ziehm’s Object Detected Dose Control feature for the Vision line of C-arms purportedly improves image quality with a low dose while also making the system easier to handle. The new real-time image control covers the whole field of view and provides independent object positioning within the field.

Brit Systems' clinical context object workgroup-enabled workstation, Brit Lite, uses vendor-independent HL7 CCOW standards to enable the viewing of medical images and reports within a patient context set by disparate clinical applications at the point of care.

Brit Systems' Roentgen Router is reportedly compatible with any vendor’s DICOM-compliant PACS or teleradiology system. The router provides auto-routing and prefetching of DICOM studies triggered by information in the exam order or study.

A web-enhanced telephone conference co-sponsored by NACVA and Reardon Consulting on Thursday, December 14 from 2-4 p.m. Eastern will address Pay for Performance (P4P) in physician healthcare reimbursements and its implications upon future value decisions.

Topics to be addressed include background of P4P and federal efforts, practical applications of P4P, and the legal parameters on health plan payments to providers to reward quality.

Agfa HealthCare announced today that Classic Hospitals, a group of 10 hospitals based in the United Kingdom, has signed a $2.9 million deal to install Agfa HealthCare’s Impax 6.2 PACS system. Additionally, Agfa’s computed radiography solution, the CR 35-X, will be installed in each facility to provide general and mammography digital services. The installation is expected to be completed by March.

Each of Classic Hospitals’ 10 facilities is multi-modality, including orthopaedics, gynecology, breast imaging and more.

A new study gauging the brain's response to product branding, presented today at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting, has found that strong brands elicit strong activity in our brains.

A new ultrasound technique allows radiologists to distinguish benign from malignant breast lesions. Using elasticity imaging, researchers correctly identified both cancerous and harmless lesions in nearly all of the cases studied. The findings were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

Elasticity imaging is a modification of a routine ultrasound exam, like a manual self-exam, but more sensitive. The noninvasive technique works by gauging how much tissue moves when pushed, and it can detect how soft or stiff an object is.

Agfa Healthcare's new DX-Si made its North American debut this week at the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting. Agfa is calling the unit a cost-effective integrated digital radiography solution.

DX-Si offers high image quality at reduced patient X-ray dose, along with flexibility and versatility, the company said. The new product combines Agfa’s DX-S digital radiography system with an X-ray modality.

The DX-Si is being marketed to high-throughput general radiography rooms, ERs and Paediatric environments. It is pending FDA clearance.

Radiologists have developed a remote-control mechanism that allows an experienced off-site operator to control an MRI machine by logging onto the Internet from a personal computer. The quality of the images from remote-control scanning was found to be superior to images obtained by a less-experienced technologist onsite.

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