Preliminary tests have demonstrated that a new device may enable up to six times better contrast of tumors in the breast, while maintaining the same or better image quality and halving the radiation dose to patients.

June 21, 2016 — RedRick Technologies — provider of ergonomic radiology furniture, monitor mounting solutions and reading room design guidance — announced it will be exhibiting at the 2016 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, June 29-July 1 in Portland, Ore. The company’s offerings will focus on the importance of good ergonomics in the radiology reading room.

June 21, 2016 — Carestream Health is reaching out to healthcare providers to help facilities convert from computed radiography (CR) to digital radiography (DR) in response to the decreased reimbursement schedule contained in the 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act.

See why Frost & Sullivan recognized AGFA DR portfolio for value and dedication to high-quality patient care with its prestigious Product Leadership Award. Learn how no-compromise Digital Radiography enables Agfa HealthCare DR customers to generate excellent images at a significantly lower dose than current DR competitors -- while increasing productivity.

Prostate cancer is the leading cancer among men, second only to skin cancer. With surgical removal at the frontline of defense, oncologists are considering prostate-specific molecular imaging at the point of initial biopsy and pre-operative planning to root out the full extent of disease, researchers revealed at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

An emerging cancer therapy has colorectal tumors surrounded. Presenters at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) unveiled a novel radioimmunotherapy that combines a cancer-seeking antibody with potent radionuclide agents, resulting in complete remission of colorectal cancer in mouse models.

SNMMI, Image of the Year 2016, PET, Alzheimer's disease, amyloid plaques

Positron emission tomography (PET) with three different radiotracers can now measure amyloid plaques, tau tangles and metabolic activity in the brains of living Alzheimer’s patients.

Epsilon Imaging Inc. announced a research study was presented at the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2016 conference from a team at the University of Chicago.

In a recent report on satisfaction among healthcare information technology (IT) customers, Agfa HealthCare customers reported high levels of satisfaction with the company's products and service.

Decatur Memorial Hospital, Decatur, Ill., is now offering C-11 choline positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) and PET/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to patients who have biochemical relapse of prostate cancer. This comes after completing a two-year clinical trial to detect prostate cancer in earlier stages.

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