January 4, 2017 — At the 2016 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), JVC Kenwood highlighted its Totoku brand of medical displays and an expanded portfolio of healthcare imaging products, including pathology displays and microscope cameras.

January 3, 2017 — Novarad has been named as a vendor for the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) Image Share Validation program, which verifies that medical imaging systems are compliant with international standards for sharing medical images and reports. The program follows standards developed by DICOM and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)

Sirtex Medical Limited announced in December that SIR-Spheres Y-90 resin microspheres have been included as a Category 2A recommended treatment in the latest National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for colon cancer and rectal cancer. This designation denotes there is uniform consensus among the NCCN panel that selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) with yttrium-90 microspheres is an appropriate option in patients with liver dominant, chemotherapy resistant colorectal disease (mCRC). This recommendation places SIR-Spheres Y-90 resin microspheres at the same designation as the recommended mCRC systemic chemotherapeutic regimens.

Simon Fraser University researchers have found that high-resolution brain scans, coupled with computational analysis, could play a critical role in helping to detect concussions that conventional scans might miss.