The University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC) is the first facility to install Siemens’ Inveon preclinical imaging system.
This dockable multimodality system was developed to offer maximum imaging versatility and performance. It allows facilities of perform PET, SPECT or CT individually or in combination, and provides a multimodality upgrade path and comprehensive suite of preclinical analysis applications. The system was demonstrated last week at the Fifth Annual Society of Molecular Imaging (SMI) show in Waikloa, HI.

Cancer patients in India can now receive IGRT treatments with the arrival of Varian’s Clinac iX linear accelerator equipped with an On-Board Imager device for imaging and tumor tracking at the newly opened radiation oncology center at Apollo Hospital in Ahmendabad.

A recent report published by Duke University Medical Center demonstrated how functional MRI (fMRI) could enhance safety in brain tumor surgery, by highlighting motor and language areas of the brain and lessen the possibility of damaging healthy tissue.

The PET imaging market is experiencing double-digit growth, according to a report by IMV Medical Information Division. The study, which surveyed 1,725 hospitals and other sites with PET/CT and PET scanners as well as nuclear medicine cameras with coincidence detection, found that PET studies increased by 60 percent in 2003 to reach a 26.5 percent annual growth rate between 2003-2005.


Fighting cancer is serious business. Not only for the patient, of course, but also for the clinicians who typically must satisfy the patient’s needs while balancing the technology to which they have immediate access with the latest technology available in the market. It represents an ongoing struggle fueled by payer reimbursement cutbacks, budgetary squeezings and expense explosions.

High-dose breast brachytherapy is but a blip on the century-old timeline of brachytherapy milestones in modern medicine. Yet in just the five years since its introduction in the U.S., it is showing significant promise not only as a viable alternative to mastectomy, but may one day rival whole breast external irradiation in the fight against early stage breast cancer.

When you hear a name like The Emory Clinic Department of Radiation Oncology you undoubtedly conjure up visions of a top-notch, well-equipped outpatient cancer treatment center funded by generous private, public and collegiate benefactors that offset payer reimbursement woes.

OSAKA – Breast CAD schemes that hunt for masses and clustered microcalcifications have improved substantially in recent years, and their widespread adoption in the clinical setting is a testament to their growing popularity.
But some researchers think CAD could be a lot better, and potentially find cancers sooner, if more breast CAD systems also looked for architectural distortion – irregularities in the parenchymal pattern on mammograms without the presence of a visible central mass.

The rapid advances in breast imaging techniques are making radiologists more accurate in diagnosing breast cancers and aiding surgeons in providing the best treatment options for patients. In fact, “seeing more” is forcing radiologists and surgeons to biopsy an increasing number of multiple lesions that ultimately lead to a more definitive diagnosis – and they are accomplishing the biopsies faster than the time it takes to perform stereotactic X-ray procedures.

Medical technology leasing is critical to hospitals and healthcare systems’ ability to compete or – even more simply – exist. Leasing has become the preferred strategy for organizations that can’t absorb the outright costs of expensive technology but need to continuously upgrade equipment to meet patients’ needs.
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