Intelerad Medical Systems announced the worldwide expansion of its Nuage Cloud Managed Services offering. Medical imaging organizations will benefit from the Intelerad private and secure managed services platform around the world.

Healthcare imaging specialist Barco received the 2019 Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership in the Multi-modal Medical Display Industry for the Coronis Uniti display system with Intuitive Workflow Tools.

To help advance medical research while preserving data privacy and improving patient outcomes for brain tumor identification, NVIDIA researchers in collaboration with King’s College London researchers recently announced the introduction of the first privacy-preserving federated learning system for medical image analysis. NVIDIA is working with King’s College London and French startup Owkin to enable federated learning for the newly established London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare.

Advanced X-ray imaging systems developer Turner Imaging Systems announced the company has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Smart-C mini C-arm portable fluoroscopy and X-ray imaging device. Focused on mobility and portability, the patent-pending Smart-C weighs only 16 pounds so that it can be hand-carried to the point of care, with no need for special equipment to wheel the device around.

At the 2019 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting, Sept. 15-18 in Chicago, Advanced Radiation Therapy, makers of AccuBoost, announced the latest upgrades to the AccuBoost Digital platform. AccuBoost Digital leverages the Planmed Clarity digital mammography system to provide doctors with real-time image-guidance and targeting confidence in the delivery of accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) in patients opting for breast conserving therapy (BCT). These upgrades improve the treatment workflow, patient experience and user interface. By design, this non-invasive breast brachytherapy (NIBB) technique is 100 percent adaptive as each treatment fraction is assessed independently and is ideal for the challenges that APBI treatments can present.

Dicom Systems announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent 10,437,877 B2 to support the company's position as a healthcare and medical imaging software developer of solutions designed with interoperability and user-configuration at the forefront.

October 22, 2019 — OmniVision Technologies Inc. announced that its OV6948 camera module is the winner of the Guinness World Record for “The Smallest Image Sensor Commercially Available,” at a size of 0.575 mm x 0.575 mm. The announcement was made as part of the 2019 Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) technology show, Oct. 23-24 in Minneapolis. Derived from this ultra-small imager, the company also announced its OVM6948 CameraCubeChip, a fully packaged, wafer-level camera module measuring 0.65mm x 0.65mm, with a z-height of 1.158mm.

October 22, 2019 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) recently released seven updated practice parameters for medical providers who use radiation therapy to treat patients with cancer. The updated practice parameters synthesize the clinical best practices that describe recommended procedures and considerations for the safe delivery of radiation in specific areas of clinical practice.

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