The ASRT Foundation’s 30th anniversary celebration campaign reached a major milestone in January with more than $2.5 million raised in commitments from individuals and organizations. The funds donated for this campaign will be used to ensure medical imaging and radiation therapy professionals attain the level of education, leadership and influence required to meet the needs of patients for many years to come.

St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the launch of the company’s Optis Mobile System in Japan and Europe. The diagnostic system is designed to couple state-of-the-art optical coherence tomography (OCT) and angiography co-registration with fractional flow reserve (FFR) technology into one portable system for hospitals with multiple catheterization labs.

ITN Contributing Editor, Greg Freiherr, provides a video overview of MRI advances showcased at RSNA 2015.
ITN Contributing Editor, Greg Freiherr, provides a video overview of Enterprise Imaging advances showcased at RSNA 2015.

The January 2015 Harvard Women’s Health Watch discusses the new mammography guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and what they mean for female patients.

February 5, 2016 — StatRad, provider of cloud-based medical image exchange technology and teleradiology services, is supporting critical diagnostic health services at Tenwek Hospital in rural western Kenya through donated RadConnect software services.

New research may allow more effective and safer pain medications to reach patients who suffer from chronic pain sooner. According to a recent study published in Anesthesiology, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), using functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) to measure the brain’s neural response to pain may be a viable tool for evaluating the effectiveness of new pain medications during the early stages of human drug development. This could provide the needed objective evidence to prevent the premature discarding of potentially beneficial therapies.

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