July 29, 2010 - Patients with deadly glioblastomas who received high doses of radiation on a portion of the brain that harbors neural stem cells had double the progression-free survival time as patients who had lower doses or no radiation targeting the area, a study from the Radiation Oncology Department at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found.

July 28, 2010 – The Council on Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals (CORAR) applauded a recent decision by a Medicare administrative to correct coding, coverage and payment policies for radiopharmaceuticals used with myocardial perfusion imaging procedures.

July 23, 2010 – A new system for image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery was exhibited for the first time earlier this week at the 2010 meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Varian’s TrueBeam is a fully-integrated system designed to treat moving tumors with a high level of speed and accuracy.

July 23, 2010 - New capabilities of several of Standard Imaging radiation therapy products where exhibited this week at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine’s (AAPM) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

July 23, 2010 -- CT Vision is Siemens’ in-room CT imaging solution, combining a SOMATOM CT scanner on rails with a Siemens linear accelerator and a high-precision treatment table. With a CT moving on rails and a smoothly rotating treatment table, it is possible to perform a CT scan and deliver treatment in a single time slot.

July 22, 2010 – D3 Radiation Services recently announced that the American Board of Radiology (ABR) has qualified eDataAudit—a new service designed to reduce errors in the delivery of radiation therapy—as a Practice Quality Improvement (PQI) for the purpose of Maintenance of Certification (MOC).

July 22, 2010 -- The first half of 2010 has seen greatly increased activity in the Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) market. According to Wayne DeJarnette, Ph.D., president of DeJarnette Research Systems Inc., the company has witnessed a significant increase in all activities related to the company’s xDLTM, Vendor Neutral Archive product offering.

July 21, 2010 – While four in 10 clinicians use frameless radiosurgery exclusively to treat cranial indications, user data collected at the 5th International Conference of the Novalis Circle, held last month in Munich, Germany, shows that there are still significant opportunities to increase utilization of the effective treatment approach.