RamSoft announced its partnership with Digisonics to offer integrated, vendor-neutral cardiac post-processing and structured reporting for all cardiovascular modalities. Digisonics was recently named Best in KLAS for the Cardiology market segment for the fifth consecutive year.

December 28, 2012 — Elekta announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Clarity 4D Monitoring software. Physicians will now be able to monitor the motion of the prostate and surrounding tissues and organs – in real-time and with sub-millimeter accuracy – during the delivery of therapeutic radiation beams.

Agfa HealthCare has launched the IMPAX Data Center (IDC) 3.0. This new version of Agfa HealthCare’s enterprise medical imaging repository, also called a vendor neutral archive (VNA), is PACS- and storage vendor-agnostic.

December 21, 2012 — At RSNA 2012 in November, GE Healthcare introduced two new 1.5T MR (magnetic resonance) systems: Optima MR360 Advance and Brivo MR355 Inspire. Both are intended to address the demand for increased patient comfort, increased productivity and reduced total cost of ownership under the GE guiding principle of “Humanizing MR.”

New software by Riverain Technologies that improves the visual clarity of conventional chest X-ray images and increases radiologists’ efficiency by reducing the time it takes to accurately confirm the proper placement of lifesaving feeding, drug-delivery and pain management tubes and lines has received CE Mark approval.

December 20, 2012 — At the 98th annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Royal Philips Electronics continued the Imaging 2.0 journey by showcasing several new features for existing image modalities that deliver clinical benefits to customers while simultaneously answering the economic challenges clinicians face worldwide.