November 4, 2010 – GE Healthcare has signed an exclusive collaboration agreement with West Physics Consulting to provide accreditation support. The agreement will support customers seeking accreditation from the American College of Radiology (ACR) for MRI, CT, nuclear medicine and PET systems.
November 4, 2010 – A new control system for an X-ray therapy system was unveiled at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in San Diego, Calif. Imperium, by Xstrahl, provides an easy-to-use clinical interface to help streamline the administrative aspect of patient care.
November 3, 2010 – A new system cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) automates the response to organ motion that occurs during the delivery of radiation to prostate cancer tumors. Dynamic EdgeT Gating Technology, by Calypso Medical Technologies, is designed to protect healthy tissue from unintended radiation.
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November 3, 2010 – A program has been launched to raise awareness among radiographers and radiological technicians of they role they play in managing radiation dose exposure. The “Are you DoseWise?” program was developed by Philips and the International Society of Radiographers and Radiological Technologists (ISRRT).
November 3, 2010 – A new option for radiation therapy will be showcased at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) conference in San Diego, Calif. GE Healthcare will display the wide bore 1.5T OptimaT MR450w with Radiology Oncology Options for improvements in tumor targeting in brain, head/neck and pelvis therapy sites.
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November 2, 2010 – Russia’s first domestically made computed tomography (CT) scanner has been installed and clinically validated at the Hospital of War Veterans in St. Petersburg, Russia. The device was made by Philips and Electron, a Russian medical equipment manufacturer.
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November 2, 2010 – An estimated 1.1 million patients in the United States were treated in 2009 with radiation therapy, a 15 percent increase from 2007, according to a new study from IMV. The annual average increase is about seven percent. Breast, prostate and lung cancer were the top three types of cancer treated with radiation, accounting for 24, 20 and 12 percent respectively.
November 2, 2010 – A new proton therapy system is entering the final phase of installation at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo.
November 1, 2010 – As the world’s population continues to age, refurbished radiation therapy equipment will become more important. Radiology Oncology Systems (R.O.S.) will demonstrate the importance of refurbished equipment at the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology (ASTRO) conference in San Diego, Calif.
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November 1, 2010 – Two medical companies have entered into a joint technology developing and marketing agreement for imaging technologies for treating certain types of cancer. LinaTech and PerkinElmer will work to develop upgrades for legacy film-based radiotherapy systems.
Several upgrades are now available on Toshiba’s Viamo ultrasound system, including ApliPure Plus, Tissue Pure Imaging, a ...
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The Titan 3T is a works-in-progress magnetic resonance (MR) system from Toshiba. The system has several patient-friendly ...
A works-in-progress 160-detector row helical computed tomography (CT) scanning system is being unveiled on the Toshiba ...
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Target CTA and the works-in-progress Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction (AIDR) technology, by Toshiba, lower radiation ...
The eXpertStitching function software is integrated into several Swissray DR systems, allowing certain orthopedic ...
Sony Medical's UP-D25MD digital color dye sublimation printer optimized for ultrasound applications. It replaces the UP ...
The Siemens Acuson S2000 ultrasound system, release 2.0, is a multi-specialty platform featuring 2-D and color Doppler ...
The Ysio, by Siemens, is a digital radiography solution with an intuitive color touchscreen. It is available in a wide ...
The syngo.via imaging software, by Siemens, enables physicians to access advanced visualization tools across the ...