November 15, 2011 – The new full iterative technology (FIT) now available on the BrightView XCT uses advanced algorithms for the truest picture possible. New clinical cases show that concurrent imaging allows for shorter exams and smarter assessments.

November 14, 2011 — GE Healthcare announced it recently submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the first module of its premarket approval application (PMA) for GE Breast Tomosynthesis. The module is an option of the Senographe Essential system.

November 14, 2011 — iCAD Inc. announced its Xoft Axxent eBx electronic brachytherapy system for intra-operative radiation therapy (IORT) has been recently adopted at leading hospitals across the country.

November 14, 2011 – The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) reported that the Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recognized the value of contrast agents in echocardiography and made very positive revisions to the U.S. label for Definity, an ultrasound contrast agent produced by Lantheus Medical Imaging.

November 9, 2011—GE Healthcare and University of Iowa Health Care announced they will collaborate on ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study brain disorders.

November 9, 2011 – Pediatric neuroscientists at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital are the first to use high-magnetic-field-strength magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to reveal tiny white matter injuries in the developing brain previously undetectable using standard MRI.