Agfa Healthcare announced that its exhibition at the 2017 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting will carry the theme of “150 Years of Evidence,” celebrating the company’s 150th anniversary. RSNA 2017 is scheduled for Nov. 26-Dec. 1 in Chicago.

Varian Medical Systems announced it will be demonstrating its new Halcyon platform and HyperArc high-definition radiotherapy (HDRT) at the 2017 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting, Sept. 24-27 in San Diego. The company also will host its Users Meeting on Sept. 23 prior to the ASTRO meeting.

ScImage Inc. and Invia Imaging Solutions recently announced formation of a joint partnership at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology’s (ASNC) 22nd Annual Scientific Session, Sept. 14-17 in Kansas City, Mo. ScImage, provider of scalable web-based image and information management systems, has teamed with Invia, a cardiology imaging software solutions provider, to enable users of ScImage’s Picom365 Enterprise PACS (picture archiving and communication system) seamless access to 4DM. Users of Picom365 will now have access to 4DM’s advanced quantification capabilities as part of their on-premises, cloud or hybrid enterprise solution.

September 19, 2017 — Elekta will highlight its Mosaiq Oncology Analytics (MOA) software solution at the American Society ...

Mary Washington Hospital and Union Health-Union Hospital will both receive Safety FiRsT grants to implement safety initiatives that will elevate technologist safety in the workplace. Launched in 2015 by the American Society for Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Foundation and Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc., the Safety FiRsT program awards two ASRT members per year a grant of up to $7,000 each to improve radiologic technologist safety in their departments.

Telemis announced that the Groupement Radiologues Associés (GRA) in Bordeaux, France, chose Telemis's picture archiving and communication system (PACS) to renew its PACS system and implement exchange and sharing of medical images within their offices. GRA also chose EDL's RIS (radiology information system) Xplore Web and Cheops Technology's information technology (IT) infrastructure solutions.

September 18, 2017 — Theraclion and co-lead investigator David Brenin, M.D., from the University of Virginia School of ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new, effective way to precisely identify and localize prostate cancer tumors while protecting healthy tissue and reducing side effects. The new approach utilizes a single molecule designed to bind two proteins with differing affinities in an effort to optimize specific tumor localization — prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) and human serum albumin — thereby enhancing tumor localization for targeted alpha radionuclide therapy. The study is presented in the featured basic article of the September issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.