May 26, 2017 — Double Black Imaging announced that it has acquired the Image Systems PACS (picture archiving and ...

At the 2017 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), June 1-3 in Pittsburgh, Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. will showcase advanced specialty viewing capabilities of the Exa Enterprise Imaging platform. The platform facilitates the viewing of large medical imaging files, such as 3-D mammography, cardiac imaging and nuclear medicine, quickly and efficiently on existing workstations throughout the enterprise. With the Exa diagnostic quality Zero Footprint Universal Viewer, clinicians can view these images and more from any modality and any vendor. Exa delivers relevant priors from the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) or vendor neutral archive (VNA), including 3-D breast tomosynthesis and cardiovascular images quickly and securely.

Fourteen members of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) took to Capitol Hill recently to express the society’s support for a bill that would expand access to government-funded graduate medical education (GME) opportunities to newly recognized primary specialties, including interventional radiology.

Barco announced that several of its diagnostic display systems will be on display at the 2017 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, June 1-3 in Pittsburgh. Featured displays will include the Coronis Uniti, Nio High-Bright Color 5MP, Coronis Fusion 6MP and the Nio Color 2MP LED. The company will also highlight a new study on display luminance to improve breast imaging and host a hands-on learning laboratory session.

The University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht in the Netherlands recently treated the first patient as part of a clinical study with the Elekta Unity magnetic resonance radiation therapy (MR/RT) system. Elekta Unity is capable of delivering precisely targeted radiation doses and capturing MR images of diagnostic quality. It is the first time a patient has been treated on a state-of-the-art linear accelerator with a high-field MR imaging system, according to Elekta.

May 23, 2017 — IBA announced that the first patient has been treated with pencil beam scanning (PBS) technology at the ...

May 23, 2017 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) announced the launch of the ACR Data Science Institute (DSI) at ...

Sigmascreening recently announced that a large independent Norwegian study further confirms Sigma’s hypothesis that pressure has a clear relation with the most optimal results in mammography. The study confirms the importance of pressure in accordance with Sigmascreening’s concept of the Sensitive Sigma Paddle , which applies pressure guidance during mammography. The combination of results of an earlier Dutch and this new Norwegian study shows an optimal pressure in the range of 10 kPa. This pressure clearly correlates very well with the proposed pressure by Sigmascreening, according to the company.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) announced a series of sessions at the 2017 Annual Meeting that will highlight the initial results of the Radiology Support, Communication and Alignment Network (R-SCAN) program. Demonstrations will also be available during ACR 2017 — The Crossroads of Radiology, May 21-25 in Washington, D.C.