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June 28, 2011 — Royal Philips Electronics announced that it has acquired AllParts Medical, a privately owned, U.S.-based provider of imaging equipment parts and training. The acquisition supports Philips’ commitment to provide the imaging market with high-quality service parts, training programs and technical support. It also ties in with Philips’ Multi-Vendor Services business and growth ambitions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Time June 28, 2011
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Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) President George Segall, M.D., chief of the nuclear medicine service at the VA Palo ...

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June 27, 2011 — Researchers may have discovered one reason that African-Americans are at increased risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular events.

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June 24, 2011 — Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law Texas Act HB2102, known as “Henda’s Law”, which will take effect Sept. 1, 2011. Texas is the second state, after Connecticut, to mandate the inclusion of breast density risk language in the report sent to women after their mammogram.

Time June 24, 2011
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June 24, 2011 — AT&T announced that Baptist Health System and Henry Ford Health System have signed agreements to pilot its new cloud-based Medical Imaging and Information Management service. Doctors will be able to quickly connect to patients' medical images, regardless of which device originally took the image, allowing them to offer faster treatment. The service will help lower costs in an industry where it can take multiple and unconnected systems and devices to transmit a single image.

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June 23, 2011 — Cancer patients in the United Kingdom will soon have access to two of the world's most advanced radiotherapy treatment machines.

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June 23, 2011 — Swedish information technology and medical technology company Sectra has signed a distribution agreement with McBrothers, a leading medical technology company based in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Time June 23, 2011
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June 21, 2011 — In a move that expands its technological capabilities, the Memorial Hermann hospital system has implemented a cloud-based medical image sharing platform from DICOM Grid that greatly enhances image management, distribution and data exchanges between referring physicians and hospitals in southeast Texas. Memorial Hermann is among the first in Texas to employ this image-sharing technology.

Time June 21, 2011
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June 21, 2011 – Issues involving sharing medical images and possible solutions were discussed by vendors during an Applied Vendor Learning Session at the 2011 Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, June 2-5 in Washington, D.C.

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June 21, 2011 – A study introduced at the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s (SNM) 58th Annual Meeting may lead to the next wave of cancer imaging by helping to develop a molecular imaging agent that detects many malignant cancers’ incessant development of blood vessels — a process called angiogenesis. A protein biomarker known as CD105 has been shown to indicate tumor angiogenesis in cancer patients.

Time June 21, 2011
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June 21, 2011 – In just four years, Clinique Claude Bernard's Private Radiotherapy Center (PRCM, Metz, France) will have doubled the number of patients receiving radiation therapy treatments per year – from 1,100 to a predicted 2,200 patients by the end of this year. This achievement was enabled by equipping first one, then all three of its Elekta Synergy treatment systems with Elekta VMAT (volumetric modulated arc therapy). With VMAT, single or multiple radiation beams sweep in arc(s) around the patient, which can significantly reduce treatment times. On April 28, a patient with breast cancer became PRCM's 2,500th to receive VMAT since the clinic began using the technique in 2009.

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June 20, 2011 — Evaluating patients with multiple sclerosis who have narrowed jugular and azygos veins — and the value of widening those veins with angioplasty — warrants careful, well-designed research, noted members of a Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation's research consensus panel. The multidisciplinary panel indicated that while specific parameters for a large-scale, pivotal multicenter trial are not now available, that type of study is the "mandatory goal" in exploring a condition called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (or CCSVI).

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June 20, 2011 – The Selenia Dimensions 2-D/3-D mammography system won a gold Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) at the Medical Design and Manufacturing East 2011 Conference and Exposition. Selenia is manufactured by Hologic.

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June 20, 2011 – The Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) has awarded $20,000 to Dimitrios Papanagnou, M.D., FACEP, director of medical simulation and medical student ultrasound course director at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., to fund point-of-care ultrasound research in emergency settings. The grant was sponsored by Siemens.

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June 20, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled a new strategy to meet the challenges posed by rapidly rising imports of FDA-regulated products and a complex global supply chain in a report called the "Pathway to Global Product Safety and Quality."

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June 20, 2011 – A new version of the Ziehm Vision RFD mobile C-arm is now available. Offering outstanding imaging and a liquid cooling system which allows it to be used over an almost unlimited period of time, the new version is an attractive choice for hybrid operating rooms (ORs). Thanks to its mobility and significantly lower investment costs, the Ziehm Vision RFD hybrid edition is a reliable alternative to fixed installations in hybrid ORs, especially for hospitals with space and budgetary constraints. Users can bundle the Ziehm Vision RFD with the SmartVascular software for vascular surgery.

Time June 20, 2011
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June 17, 2011 –Intelerad Medical Systems today announced that three large radiology practices in the United States have adopted InteleOne to streamline medical imaging workflows and accelerate business growth.

Time June 17, 2011
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June 17, 2011 — KLAS today announced the release of their highly anticipated "2011 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Medical Equipment & Infrastructure" report. The awards are based on data from customer surveys of hospital and clinic executives, administrators, physicians, nurses, clinicians, and other directors and managers interacting with healthcare equipment and infrastructure solutions.

Time June 17, 2011
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June 17, 2011 – In hybrid operating rooms (OR), healthcare facilities require a flexible imaging system to create a collaborative environment between clinicians and to allow both surgical and interventional procedures to be performed in one setting. At this year’s Society of Vascular Surgery (SVS) annual meeting, held in Chicago, June 16-18, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. will highlight single-plane, ceiling-mounted Infinix-i X-ray systems and their compatibility with the Toshiba CAT-880B hybrid table and the Maquet Magnus OR table.

Time June 17, 2011
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The Luminos Agile Fluoroscopy/Radiography system from Siemens Healthcare has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is now commercially available in the United States, the company announced. It is the first patient-side controlled system with dynamic flat panel detector technology, height-adjustable table and true dual-use capability for fluoroscopy and radiography.

Time June 17, 2011
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