February 11, 2009 - The chief medical officer of Philips Healthcare, Eric Silfen M.D., addressing key national Healthcare experts at the “State of the Union for Healthcare” Conference, in which he encouraged access to healthcare from anywhere, pay-for-performance, the patient to drive the best clinical outcomes and support for basic biomedical research.
Modus Medical has expanded its line of QUASAR Respiratory Motion Inserts to include two new lung-equivalent models for IMRT quality assurance.
Varian Medical Systems offers the RapidArc radiotherapy technology, which is designed to deliver IMRT reportedly two to eight times faster and more precisely than conventional IMRT or helical tomotherapy.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
The CIRS Model 002H9K offers a complete QA solution from CT imaging to dose verification. With the H9K, choose any point dose location within a circular area with diameter of 11.2 cm by simply adjusting the two rotating cylinders. Lung and bone equivalent rods can be positioned at any location within the circular area for assessment of heterogeneity correction.
syngo Dynamics is a comprehensive multimodality diagnostic image review and evidenced-based reporting system that focuses on dynamic image clip review and reporting for ultrasound and cardiovascular imaging modalities. Version 8.0 (which isn’t commercially available yet) features: - Scheduling option to allow better resource management in the cath or echo lab
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Toshiba's Virtual Explorer Workstation is a complete 3D, post-processing tool for MR analysis and image display. The design aims to offer a full range of features that will enhance MR imaging capability and functionality. The workstation comes with both the hardware and software necessary for a complete post-processing package.
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TomoTherapy Inc.’s Hi-Art treatment system 3.1 is said to be a faster version of its image-guided, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IG-IMRT) that includes new software and hardware features aimed at enhancing clinical productivity and system usability, and is expected to increase patient throughput.
February 10, 2009 — Matrox Graphics Inc. said that NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc. has chosen and will be shipping Matrox Xenia Pro display controller boards for use with a variety of color and grayscale medical LCD displays.
February 10, 2009 - The routine use of radiography, MRI or CT scans in patients with low-back pain but no indication of a serious underlying condition does not improve clinical outcomes, and doctors should refrain from immediate scanning unless they observe features of a serious underlying condition, according to conclusions from an article in this week’s edition of The Lancet.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
February 10, 2009 - Dilon Technologies Inc. said today it had record sales for 2008 highlighted by the strongest fourth quarter in the company's history, achieving a 35 percent increase in sales from 2007 to 2008 as molecular breast imaging gains nationwide exposure and acceptance.
February 9, 2009 - DMS Health Technologies said today that two additional digital mammography mobile units have been awarded a three-year term of accreditation as the result of a recent survey by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
February 9, 2009 - BSD Medical Corp.today provided a translated version of a press release issued by the German Cancer Society entitled, "Putting the heat on advanced cervical cancer." The translated text of this important press release is as follows:
Did you know that approximately one-third of all the data in world is created by the healthcare industry and that ...
February 9, 2009 - SenoRx Inc. said today it has expanded labeling for its larger-size Contura Multi-Lumen Radiation Balloon (MLB) catheter, which reflects the broader clinical capabilities included in the device's 510(k) clearance.
February 9, 2009 - At ECR 2009 in Vienna, March 6-10, 2009, Sectra will highlight its new PACS generation enabling a workflow just as efficient whether radiologists are working locally or across department and hospital boundaries.
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February 9, 2009 - Del Global Technologies Corp. won a large government tender in Mexico for Del’s Apollo DRF flat panel detector that produces full-field, high resolution imaging for a broad range of radiographic and fluoroscopic examinations.
February 9, 2009 - Presenters at the workshop stressed the need for the correct imaging biomarker available to accelerate the completion of clinical trials, as well as imaging standardization, consistent manufacturing practices and regulatory considerations, at The SNM Clinical Trials Network Community Workshop held on Feb. 8, 2009, in Clearwater, FL.
February 9, 2009 - At ECR 2009, held in Vienna, March 6-10, Sectra will continue to push for the new generation of its photon-counting full-field digital mammography system, Sectra MicroDose Mammography, as a growing number of providers of medical technology point to photon-counting as the future in medical imaging.
Codonics Horizon is three imagers in one – a dry film imager, color imager, and grayscale paper imager. Switching between film, color and paper requires no operator intervention. The all-in-one imager aims to provide high quality images while being affordable.
Integrity Disk Importer is designed to be an easy-to-use solution to read, reconcile and store medical studies from a disc into PACS, or allows DICOM images to be stored directly to Integrity from any network device.
February 9, 2009 – Some patients who suffer a stroke as a result of a blockage in an artery in the brain may benefit from a clot-busting drug nine or more hours after the onset of symptoms, according to findings published in the online edition of Radiology.