January 6, 2009 - MEDRAD has agreed to collaborate with the University of Zurich in a study on dynamic PET imaging with the MEDRAD Intego PET Infusion System, in which researchers will utilize MEDRAD’s system for controlling the radioactive dose delivered during PET imaging procedures.

January 6, 2009 – The University of Zurich will study dynamic PET imaging with the MEDRAD Intego PET Infusion System in the hopes of more precisely controlling the radioactive dose delivered during PET imaging procedures, according to MEDRAD Inc.

January 6, 2009 - SPECT/CT should be used as a routine procedure in differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) patients at the first radioiodine treatment, concluded a researcher in a study from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, published in the January issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

January 6, 2009 – The organizations CAQH, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Initiative and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) will collaborate with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the formation of a 5010 Testing Project to address real-time testing of the new X12 HIPAA 5010 tr

January 6, 2009 - LightLab Imaging Inc. has made potentially important developments in the field of intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) this past year that are the culmination of sustained clinical and technology investment by the company.

December 5, 2008 - The ability for cancer cells to reverse a natural self-destruction process may attribute to the reason cancer can return after treatment, according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer.

January 5, 2009 - Arlington Medical Resources (AMR), a provider of market intelligence for the pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging industries, reported that the number of micro-bubble echo contrast procedures performed in October 2008 have increased by more than 50 percent, to nearly 18,000 procedures, when compared to May 2008.

January 5, 2008 - Alliance Imaging paid $43 million and assumed indebtedness to acquire Shared P.E.T. Imaging LLC, a mobile and fixed-site provider of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), which generates approximately $29 million in annual revenue.

January 5, 2009 - Frost & Sullivan said it has awarded Toshiba America Medical Systems with its 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Healthcare Innovation.