By Melinda Taschetta-Millane Radiology and high school/collegiate sports have been making headlines this past year, and press conferences held this morning at RSNA discussed clinical data on research being done on this noteworthy topic.
Men with prostate cancer will be the first group of patients in China to benefit from the recent clearance of Elekta's Clarity soft tissue visualization system by the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA). As part of Elekta's premiere linear accelerator offering, Versa HD, Clarity enables clinicians to use non-ionizing ultrasound technology to non-invasively image the prostate and surrounding soft tissues before patients begin treatment.
According to a survey by KLAS, an independent research firm, Elekta's Mosaiq Oncology Information System earned the No. 1 ranking in the medical and/or radiology oncology category of KLAS' "Oncology 2014: Integration is Key" report.
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Philips Healthcare is introducing its latest mobile c-arm imaging system. The Veradius Unity is uses a thin flat digital detector instead of an image intensifier and offers several features to aid procedural guidance and enhance the user interface.
Today marked the first of six full days of educational programs for radiologists, radiologic technologists and allied professionals as the 100th scientific assembly and annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) kicked off with a nod to the past and a vision for the future. RSNA’s centennial celebration carries the theme “A Century of Transforming Medicine,” and numerous activities are planned this week to help celebrate this milestone.
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Indianapolis interventional medical device maker Nico Corporation and Toronto-based Synaptive Medical announced at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting that they have joined forces to integrate their innovative technologies for brain surgery.
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KLAS releases scores and analysis regarding solutions for electronic medical record (EMR) interoperability and health information exchanges (HIEs). This, to provide clarity into a market that is cluttered with competing claims.
Civco Medical Solutions received the Iowa Global Excellence in Exporting Award from the Northwest Iowa Development Organization. Civco was recognized for this excellence in exporting award at the Fourth Annual Northwest Iowa Development (NWID) Partners Meeting at Northwest Iowa Community College (NWICC) in Sheldon, Iowa on Oct. 13.
A new study by clinicians and researchers from Toronto and Vancouver, Canada, found that psychiatric patients who underwent SPECT-influenced treatments improved significantly more than patients who did not.
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Coquí RadioPharmaceuticals Corp. is working to become the first commercial producer of lifesaving medical isotopes in the United States. In 2012, Congress passed legislation making it a national priority to produce Molybdenum-99, an isotope necessary to detect a wide range of diseases, including cardiovascular disease and cancer.
St. Mary’s Health Care System installed two Vantage Titan 1.5T MR (magnetic resonance) systems from Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. St. Mary’s utilizes the systems to enhance its cardiac imaging program and for advanced imaging studies that include myocardial perfusion and stress MR.
GTCR, a private equity firm, announced Devicor Medical Products has signed an agreement to be acquired by Danaher Corp.’s Leica Biosystems, a provider of anatomical pathology solutions and automation used to advance cancer diagnostics.
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Brainlab announced the installation of the 625th ExacTrac X-Ray. ExacTrac X-Ray provides sub-millimetric precison and a unique approach for solving the complexities associated with intra-fractional patient motion by internally verifying the patient’s position with stereoscopic X-ray at the time of treatment, even at non-coplanar couch positions. ExacTrac X-Ray monitoring is especially valuable for cranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and spinal stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) treatments.
Breast density notification, advances in technology and shifting reimbursement are among hot topics to be covered in clinical education courses at ACR 2015 – the first all-member, all-radiology meeting of the American College of Radiology (ACR), May 17–21, 2015, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.
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Mevion Medical Systems will deliver its Mevion S250 proton therapy superconducting synchrocyclotron accelerator to the University of Florida Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health. The accelerator will treat cancer in adults and children.
Patients at high-risk for developing lung cancer are more likely to receive low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening when their primary care provider is familiar with guideline recommendations for LDCT screening for lung cancer, according to research presented at the 2014 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology. The symposium is sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) and The University of Chicago Medicine.
Seno Medical Instruments Inc. announced that the use of the Seno Imagio breast imaging system and the associated predictive model appear to have the potential to significantly improve physicians' ability to accurately rule out breast cancer compared to traditional ultrasound alone.
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Foundation announced that the Elekta Radiation Therapy Scholarship has been renewed through 2019.
Lung cancer is the No. 1 cancer killer in the United States, causing more deaths each year than breast, colon, pancreas and prostate cancers combined. The National Lung Screening Trial proved that computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening (LCS) can reduce deaths due to lung cancer by at least 20 percent in individuals at high risk. The resulting endorsement of LCS by the United States Preventive Services Task Force means that millions of high-risk Americans will be granted insurance coverage for annual LCS beginning in 2015.
Toshiba has made software and hardware enhancements to the Aquilion families, some pending 510(k) clearance, to improve clinicians’ ability to accurately plan a patient’s treatment and will demonstrate these improvements at RSNA 2014.