September 25, 2014 — Agfa HealthCare announced Summa Health System selected the company’s digital radiography (DR) technologies, including the DX-D Retrofit and DX-D 100 mobile DR systems, DX-M multi-plate CR and CR 30-X single plate tabletop CR (computed radiography), in combination with an upgrade of Agfa HealthCare’s patented Musica image processing software through the Digital Radiography Upgrade Program.

September 25, 2014 — Materialise announced that orthopedic surgeon Roger Jaeken, M.D., of AZ Heilige Familie in Reet, Belgium, has successfully performed the first total knee surgery that was pre-planned with the Materialise X-ray knee guide solution. The new proprietary technology allows for preplanning of knee replacement surgeries as well as the 3-D printing of related surgical guides solely on the basis of 2-D X-ray images.

A new analysis of published studies found that FDG-PET technology is less accurate in diagnosing lung cancer versus benign disease in regions where infections like histoplasmosis or tuberculosis are common.

Varian Medical Systems broke ground on new construction that will expand its current Salt Lake City manufacturing facility and allow for the consolidation of operations currently underway outside of Utah to ultimately create 1,000 new full time jobs in the state over the next 20 years

Mirada Medical software applied to state-of-the-art adaptive radiotherapy (ART) was the subject of an oral presentation at the annual conference of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), Sept. 14-17 in San Francisco.

September 24, 2014 — An expert in earthquake waves has unearthed the idea that sound waves reflected from human bodies could reveal not only their internal shape but also their condition.