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October 4, 2010 — Park Avenue Family Practice of Yonkers, N.Y., is adding a U-Arm digital radiography (DR) system to support its increased X-ray imaging volume.

Time October 04, 2010
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October 4, 2010 — A new collaboration between researchers at King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Center and a British company is targeting skin cancer with a new type of imaging probe.

Time October 04, 2010
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October 4, 2010 — AccuDetect Galileo computer-aided detection (CAD) software for mammography has received CE (Conformité Européenne) mark.

Time October 04, 2010
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October 4, 2010 — A non-invasive, radiation-free pulmonary imaging system has been launched in the United States. The VRIxp lung imaging system is designed to aid in diagnosis and monitoring in the emergency department (ED).

Time October 04, 2010
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October 1, 2010 — A new proton therapy center will open in the suburban Chicago area later this month, slated to begin treating patients November 1. Imaging Technology News editors were among a group of journalists given a pre-opening tour of the ProCure facility, affiliated with Central DuPage Hospital, on September 30.

Time October 01, 2010
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September 30, 2010 — A Vision 2015 plan outlines Philips’ strategy to strengthen its leadership in the domain of health and well-being in the next five years. It builds on Vision 2010 gains; focuses on fueling growth, increasing brand preference and leadership in key markets, including healthcare.

Time September 30, 2010
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September 30, 2010 – After a year-long beta period of end-user testing and feedback, OmniPACS 1.0 has been released. The updated program is designed to permit faster and more efficient data sharing with selected members of the user’s online contact list.

Time September 30, 2010
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September 30, 2010 – New angiography navigation tools for structural heart cases were shown by GE Healthcare during last week's Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2010 symposium.

Time September 30, 2010
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September 30, 2010 — October 1, a special opening bell ceremony at the NASDAQ Stock Exchange will take place to mark the start of breast cancer awareness month.

Time September 29, 2010
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September 29, 2010 – Medisys Health Group Inc., one of Canada’s leading providers of healthcare services with 18 advanced imaging centers nationwide, is upgrading three of its facilities to a new digital radiography system. Key considerations included image quality, technical stability, compact design, affordability and service.

Time September 29, 2010
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September 29, 2010 — A 51-year-old breast cancer patient from Switzerland has become the first person in the world to be treated using Gated RapidArc, which makes it possible to monitor patient breathing and compensate for tumor motion while quickly delivering radiotherapy during a continuous rotation around the patient.

Time September 29, 2010
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September 29, 2010 — A new technology alliance is designed to enable healthcare professionals to securely and affordably access, share, transmit and store global diagnostic images and studies.

Time September 29, 2010
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September 29, 2010 — Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Salisbury, N.C., has installed a new dual-detector digital imaging system incorporating the Canon CXDI-40G and CXDI-50G digital receptors. The college is an open-door, comprehensive learning-centered institution of higher education serving the citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus counties.

Time September 29, 2010
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September 29, 2010 – Wheatland Memorial Healthcare, Harlowton, Mont., is the latest critical access hospital to turn its Diagnostic Imaging Department into a state-of-the-art digital facility with new Web-based picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) technology.

Time September 29, 2010
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September 29, 2010 — DatCard Systems Inc., a global supplier of DICOM digital distribution systems, recently filed suit against PacsGear Inc. and Data Distributing Inc. to prevent the alleged infringement of DatCard’s medical disc publishing patent portfolio. The lawsuits were filed Aug. 24 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Time September 29, 2010
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September 29, 2010 — Quinnipiac University has selected a new picture archiving and communications system (PACS) for its innovative diagnostic imaging educational center, which provides students in a wide range of imaging-related medical specialties with hands-on experience using a full suite of state-of-the-art technology.

Time September 29, 2010
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September 29, 2010 — In a prospective study published in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, researchers at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Boca Raton, Fla., showed that positron emission mammography (PEM) and breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) had a comparably high ability to detect cancerous lesions.

Time September 28, 2010
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September 28, 2010 – Three new customers have joined a growing list of hospitals, imaging centers and clinics that use the Clarity CT solution to enable material reductions in the medical radiation exposed to patients. They are: Watson Clinic of Lakeland, Fla.; Zilkha Radiology of East Islip, N.Y., and Inova Alexandria Hospital of Alexandria, Va.

Time September 28, 2010
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September 28, 2010 — SAVI Sisters, a program designed to provide education about breast cancer treatment options, primarily through social networking, has been launched.

Time September 28, 2010
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