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May 7, 2012 — Wide Beam Reconstruction (WBR) reduces the required radiopharmaceutical dose and image acquisition time by 50 percent for diagnostic quality myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), according to a new study published in the March/April 2011 issue of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.
May 07, 2012 
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May 7, 2012 - On May 4, the American College of Radiology (ACR) submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT (ONC) regarding the agencies' March 7, 2012, proposed rules to revise and update the professional and technology requirements of the EHR Incentive Program (“meaningful use”). The ACR IT and Informatics Committee (ITIC) - Government Relations Subcommittee compiled the comments with feedback from ACR members, allied organizations and other stakeholders.
May 07, 2012 Technology
May 7, 2012 - Mindray Medical International Limited (NYSE: MR), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices worldwide, announced that it will introduce the new DC-8 ultrasound system at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) annual meeting being held in San Diego, May 5-9, 2012. The new system is designed to maximize user experience for a wide variety of applications.
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May 7, 2012 - medQ , a provider of information technology and service solutions in radiology, announced a signed agreement with Community Portable X-ray to provide a complete workflow solution from order entry through to automatic report distribution and billing.
May 07, 2012 
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May 7, 2012 — Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh honored the Bhubaneswar Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI) by presiding over the inauguration of its Elekta Synergy linear accelerator on April 20 in Guwahati in the Indian state of Assam. The Synergy system joins BCCI's first Elekta treatment system, which was installed in 2000.
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May 7, 2012 - IsoRay Inc., a medical technology company and innovator in seed brachytherapy and medical radioisotope applications, announced it will host a booth at the world brachytherapy meeting. The program, presented by GEC-ESTRO (The Groupe Européen de Curiethérapie and the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology), in co-operation with ABS (American Brachytherapy Society), ALATRO (Asociacion Latinoamericana de Terapia Radiante Oncologica), and the Indian and Australasian brachytherapy groups, will take place May 10-12 in Barcelona, Spain.
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May 7, 2012 — The American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) — radiology’s most comprehensive professional development and leadership academy — is now open for enrollment.
May 07, 2012 
Technology
May 7, 2012 — Carestream has debuted new software features for three of its computed radiography (CR) systems that offer important advantages in the areas of quality and exposure control, pediatric and intensive care unit (ICU) imaging, and print output.
May 07, 2012 
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May 4, 2012 — Ziehm Imaging has been involved in mobile X-ray-based imaging for 40 years and is a major player in mobile C-arms. Since the company was founded in 1972, more than 10,000 Ziehm imaging C-arms have been installed in hospitals and medical facilities around the globe. As part of its global "40 Years of Innovation" campaign, Ziehm Imaging is seeking to convey its mobile C-arm expertise to its target groups.
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For all the talk about reducing dose, you’d think doing so would require exotic tools. Yet, reduced dose is not only possible, but also practical and well within the reach of everyday radiology. All that’s needed is the will to do so and the expertise to make it happen. Pediatricians at Spectrum Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI, can attest to that.
May 04, 2012 
Case Study
The imaging volume at Desert Radiologists was so high that the radiologists on staff never felt comfortable scheduling time off. In 2008, the Las Vegas, Nev., practice replaced its outdated and overloaded picture archiving and communication system (PACS) with a more efficient system. The new McKesson PACS provided a single database system, improving workflow and reducing turnaround time.
May 03, 2012 
Case Study
Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is an acute-care hospital within Memorial Health System and has been serving patients in the region for more than 110 years. For 2012, it is the host site for the Level One Trauma Center for its region. It frequently uses mobile imaging for emergency, bariatric and orthopedic care. To meet these imaging needs, it has been using GE OEC C-arm systems for close to 18 years.
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When your practice sees an average of 150 women a day, efficiency is key to ensuring that each patient receives the best possible care. For the past several years, the Breast Health Center at California Pacific Medical Center, part of the Sutter Health network, has chosen to standardize on Hologic equipment, from its Selenia digital mammography systems and SecurView workstations to the majority of the elements used in its biopsy practice, including the Multi-Care Platinum breast biopsy guidance system; Eviva, ATEC and Celero vacuum-assisted breast biopsy devices, and biopsy site markers.
May 03, 2012 
Feature | Scott Branton and Tobias Gilk
Proton therapy is a variant of conventional external beam radiation therapy or stereotactic radiosurgery. Whereas traditional radiation therapies use X-ray photons as the “ammunition” to target tumors, proton therapy uses the significantly more massive proton to try to decimate diseased tissues. From a patient benefit standpoint, there’s more to proton therapy than just “bigger bullets” targeting tumors, it is also that the collateral risks to the patient are lower.
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Feature | Helen Kuhl
Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) have been around for more than 20 years, and today’s marketplace includes a lot of satisfied customers who recognize the many benefits they have gotten from them. “The PACS market has achieved a stage of maturity and a track record of documented benefits – savings from eliminating film, faster turnaround times – that leave electronic health record (EHR) advocates envious,” said a recent KLAS report, “PACS 2011: A Victim of its Own Success.”
May 03, 2012 
Feature | Helen Kuhl
Since it was named “Invention of the Year” by TIME magazine in 2000, positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has been hailed as a winning combination. It captures anatomical information from the CT and functional information from the PET to create a fused image at once, reducing some of the challenges that occur in fusing two images acquired at separate times from separate modalities.
May 03, 2012 
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May 3, 2012 — Brit Systems Inc. and Medic Vision Imaging Solutions Ltd. jointly announced an agreement for Brit Systems to support the U.S. installations of the SafeCT image enhancement system.
May 03, 2012 
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May 3, 2012 — When 300 of the nation’s top college football players converged on Indianapolis in February for the National Football League (NFL) Scouting Combine, they were evaluated with one of the most advanced, wireless digital radiography systems available today — the Aero DR.
May 03, 2012 
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May 3, 2012 — Accuray Inc. announced the launch of the Prostate Advances in Comparative Evidence (PACE) study, an international multicenter randomized study to compare CyberKnife Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT), da Vinci assisted and manual laparoscopic surgery, and conventionally fractionated intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for the treatment of localized prostate cancer.
May 03, 2012 
Feature | John S. Reach, M.D., Yale University Sch
Musculoskeletal impairments are reported by more than one out of every four Americans, and in 2008 an estimated 46 million, or one in five adults, reported arthritis.1 Local injections of therapeutic agents into articular structures can lead to rapid decreases in pain and inflammation without many of the serious side effects associated with systemic medications. However, as with any diagnostic or therapeutic procedure, success depends on the expertise of the clinician and the accuracy with which the medications are injected into the affected joint space. Ultrasound is an emerging imaging modality which affords dynamic, real-time, cost-effective and physician-controlled visualization of anatomic impairments. Recent data has demonstrated that the use of ultrasound imaging improves accuracy rates in joint injections.
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