September 15, 2020 — Varian announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Eclipse v16.1 treatment planning software for proton therapy. Proton therapy is the most sophisticated radiotherapy technology available today, using protons, accelerated to about two-thirds the speed of light, or more than 100,000 miles per second, to destroy cancer cells, while minimizing exposure to nearby healthy tissue.

September 14, 2020 — Change Healthcare announced innovative new artificial intelligence (AI) models, trained by expert physicians, which extract meaningful diagnostic information from text in EHRs.

September 11, 2020 — A portable, low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device can be safely used at bedside in complex clinical care settings to evaluate critically-ill patients for suspected stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), or other neurological problems, results of a proof-of-concept study show.

September 11, 2020 — Scientists have long debated the respiratory workings of sea scorpions, but a new discovery by a West Virginia University geologist concludes that these largely aquatic extinct arthropods breathed air on land. And now thanks to current computed tomography (CT) technology, they know more about this extinct sporpion.

September 11, 2020 — The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has launched its fourth annual artificial intelligence (AI) challenge, a competition among researchers to create applications that perform a clearly defined clinical task according to specified performance measures.