Nikon Instruments awarded its Small World award to the image of a cell nuclei of a mouse colon as seen through the microscope, which was generated for genomics and bioinformatics research by Dr. Paul Appleton, a researcher from the Division of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Dundee in the UK.

Commissure Inc. recently announced a partnership with AMICAS Inc. a leader in radiology and medical image and information management solutions. The partnership will enable Commissure’s speech recognition reporting and workflow orchestrator software, RadWhere Suite, to work seamlessly with the AMICAS Vision Series RIS and PACS solutions, as well as allow for multisite worklist management.

Eclipsys Corp. today announced that University Hospitals (UH), Cleveland, OH, has contracted for Sunrise Clinical Manager and its fully integrated modules, including Sunrise Acute Care, Sunrise Ambulatory Care, Sunrise Emergency Care, Sunrise Critical Care, Sunrise Pharmacy and Knowledge-Based Charting. The use of Sunrise Clinical Manager will allow UH to connect its physicians, nurses, pharmacists, other clinicians and administrators, allowing patient information to flow seamlessly throughout the hospital.

The presence and extent of bronchiectasis has been effectively shown using high-resolution CT (HRCT). However, a study conducted by the Vancouver General Hospital’s department of Radiology in Vancouver, B.C., Canada that included 61 patients diagnosed with bronchiectasis has found that the used of helical high-resolution multidetector CT (MDCT) with one millimeter collimation proves to be better than HRCT. In the study, seven patients had positive MDCT scans with only two having positive HRCT scans with MDCT detecting bronchiectasis in 202 lobes compared to 162 lobes with HRCT.

Montefiore Medical Center has announced that it has dramatically improved the diagnosis and treatment of cancers using a new-generation PET/CT scanning device, the Gemini TF from Philips Medical Systems.
The combination PET/CT scanner enables visualization of elevated metabolism, so that normal physiological tissues with higher metabolic activity can be distinguished from tumor cells.

twentysix New York, a business solutions provider specializing in business intelligence, enterprise integration, custom applications and providing consulting services to clients that need strategic IT guidance, project management and business analysis, has announced that Anthony Mercaldi has joined their Enterprise Integration (EI) practice and will be responsible for delivering EI solutions to th

Medical imaging displays are in high-demand across Europe due to increased volumes of image transfer. Radiologists using medical images just for diagnosis is a thing of the past. Hospitals linked to a PACS can use images for referral, patient consultation and surgical planning. With the increased use of images, sufficient numbers of displays are needed to view them, leaving hospitals across Europe to take the clinical an long term benefits of adding additional medical displays into account.

Imaging Dynamics Co. (IDC) has announced the successful installation of the DR Xplorer in Turkey and South Africa, and has received orders in Pakistan, Qatar, Denmark, India and Slovakia.
In Turkey, the DR Xplorer was implemented at Kadikoy Vatan Hospital, which is part of the Universal Health Group including over 43 hospitals.

Philips Medical Systems has unveiled its integrated cardiovascular information system to the European market, and demonstrated the commercial release of Motiva, its interactive healthcare platform, for the first time in Europe.

The World Congress of Cardiology as its stage, the company introduced Xcelera R2.1, which now integrates exam results from all key cardiology subspecialties, including interventional cardiology, cardiovascular ultrasound, ECG, nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT, cardiac MR and electrophysiology.

IDEV Technologies, Inc. has received a 510(k) clearance from FDA for the first interwoven nitinol self-expanding stent available in the U.S for palliative treatment of malignant strictures in the biliary tree.

The newly approved SureSave Stent will be renamed SUPERA.

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