January 17, 2012 – Data presented at the 6th Annual Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) meeting in Miami suggest that the investigational 18F imaging agent Flutemetamol could add value to current diagnostic tools used by physicians to evaluate neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. Flutemetamol is a GE Healthcare positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer in phase III development for the detection of beta amyloid plaques.
January 17, 2012 — Killing tumors by freezing them can add precious time to the lives of women with ovarian cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. Minimally invasive cryoablation extends lives and is cost-effective, according to a study being presented at the 4th annual Symposium on Clinical Interventional Oncology (CIO), in collaboration with the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET).
January 17, 2012 — Digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) Systems, a healthcare IT company and teleradiology interoperability expert, announced their selection as the Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) vendor of choice by Onrad Inc. a California-based teleradiology group.
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January 13, 2012 — Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Xpress CR Digital Mammography upgrade for sale.
January 13, 2012 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating healthcare professionals and the public about preliminary findings from ongoing investigations following the voluntary recall of CardioGen-82 last July by the manufacturer, Bracco Diagnostics. CardioGen-82 consists of a generator that is used at clinical sites to produce rubidium (Rb)-82 chloride injection. A CardioGen-82 positron emission tomography (PET) scan is one of a variety of nuclear medicine scans that use radioactive drugs to evaluate myocardial perfusion.
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January 13, 2012 — Varian Medical Systems has established its first education center in Tokyo, Japan, to train radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and technologists who work with Varian's cancer treatment systems.
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January 12, 2012 — Today Brainlab announced the 500th sale of its ExacTrac patient positioning system for frameless radiosurgery. The scale of uptake highlights physicians continued focus on adopting clinically proven systems for high-precision cancer treatments and their ongoing investment in ensuring access to advanced radiation therapy for patients.
January 13, 2012 — Accuray said this week there had been significant momentum in global adoption of its CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery system and TomoTherapy system.
January 12, 2012 — RaySearch Laboratories AB announced that version 2.5 of its RayStation treatment planning system has been released for clinical use in Europe and the United States, and is pending regulatory approval in Canada. The new version includes a wide range of new features and improvements.
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January 12, 2012 — WorldRad.com has been selected as the exclusive provider of round-the-clock teleradiology services for Guyana Imaging Providers in a country that suffers from a national shortage of qualified radiologists.
January 12, 2012 – Insurance status doesn’t affect the quantity (or value) of imaging services received by patients in a hospital, in-patient setting, according to a study in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
January 12, 2012 — The government has filed suit seeking $150 million in damages and penalties under the False Claims Act against Universal Imaging Inc. and its current and former owners, Phillip J. Young and Mark Lauhoff, United States attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
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January 12, 2012 – Varian Medical Systems has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for a new radiotherapy treatment planning tool designed to work with the company's Eclipse treatment planning software to reduce the amount of time needed for planning advanced treatments.
January 12, 2012 – Access to capital, a burdensome and uncertain regulatory environment, and lack of innovation and productivity in research and development are the biggest threats to the biomedical industry's growth over the next five years, according to biomedical company CEOs surveyed by CHI-California Healthcare Institute, BayBio and PwC US.
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January 12, 2012 — UT-Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, has acquired and installed a high-resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner.
January 12, 2012 – Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. announced that the endoscopy equipment provider Fujinon will fully integrate as a division of the diagnostic imaging and medical informatics company. Fujinon had previously operated as a subsidiary of Fujifilm.
January 12, 2012 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently cleared a hyperthermia system designed to warm cervical cancer tumors so they respond better to radiation therapy treatments.
January 12, 2012 — A project led by The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) will utilize the latest technological innovations in the field to bring cardiovascular ultrasound to rural India.
January 12, 2011 – U.S. healthcare spending experienced historically low rates of growth in 2009 and 2010 according to the annual report of national health expenditures (NHE) published in the January issue of the journal Health Affairs.
January 12, 2012 — An article in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology summarizes methods for radiation dose optimization in pediatric computed tomography (CT) scans.