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July 21, 2010 – A new version of a multimodality treatment planning system for brachytherapy and external beam treatment offers several features to increase planning speed and improve plan accuracy. Nucletron announced the upcoming release of Oncentra v4.0 at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting this week.

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July 20, 2010 – Rcadia Medical Imaging recently presented five studies demonstrating the potential of its COR Analyzer System to help rule out significant coronary artery stenosis in patients at low to intermediate risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing coronary computer tomography angiography (CTA).

Time July 20, 2010
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July 20, 2010 – New dual source CT technology allows a radiation dose of as low as one millisievert (mSv) for computed tomography angiography (CTA) scans, Siemens announced last week at the 2010 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) in Las Vegas.

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July 20, 2010 – InfraScan announced this week that it has signed a $2 million contract with the U.S. Marine Corps and Navy to develop a next-generation version of the company’s Infrascanner brain hematoma detector.

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July 20, 2010 – IBA Dosimetry will showcase its latest innovation in radiation therapy commissioning solutions, the Blue Phantom[2] water phantom equipped with advanced Linear Diode Array technology (LDA-99SC) at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia this week.

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July 20, 2010 – Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have developed a way to reduce the amount of radiation involved in perfusion computed tomography (CT) scanning, an emerging imaging technology for diagnosing strokes and cancer, following an incident last year when a machine set to incorrect radiation levels overdosed hundreds of people in Los Angeles.

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July 20, 2010 – DeJarnette Research Systems Inc. announced this week that it has been awarded a patent covering automated anatomical body part recognition.

Time July 20, 2010
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Biodex Medical Systems demonstrated its new Atomlab 500 Plus system at the 2010 Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting. The system combines a dose calibrator, quality assurance calibrator and wipe test counter for radiopharmacies, medical physicists and nuclear imaging specialists.

Time July 20, 2010
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July 20, 2010 – Siemens recently announced it is enhancing its digital radiography (DR) product with new software that takes existing chest X-rays and suppresses the ribs and clavicles to improve visibility of soft tissue structures of the lungs.

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July 19, 2010 – New, integrated software solutions from Siemens designed to assist in radiation therapy planning and treatment will be demonstrated during the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting this week in Philadelphia.

Time July 19, 2010
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July 19, 2010 – CIVCO’s new RFSuite is designed with the capability to support the requirements set out by the Radiation Therapy Readiness Check Initiative, which was recently presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by the Medical Imaging Technology Association (MITA).

Time July 19, 2010
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July 19, 2010 – New features of the iNtuition system, including advanced visualization and decision support solutions, were demonstrated during the meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) last week in Las Vegas.

Time July 19, 2010
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July 19, 2010 – Siemens Healthcare today announced FDA clearance for the UROSKOP Omnia, its new multifunctional workstation for urology. With the workstation’s new dynamic flat detector technology, UROSKOP Omnia allows the urologist to cover the entire urinary tract – kidney, ureter, bladder (KUB) – with only one single exposure and with good image quality.

Time July 19, 2010
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July 19, 2010 – Elekta will showcase its broad array of intelligent solutions for radiation therapy planning, oncology information management and image guided radiation therapy this week at the 2010 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting.

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July 19, 2010 – A new way of calculating the dosimetry of cancer treatments will be showcased this week at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Philadelphia. The Acuros BV from Varian Medical Systems enables clinicians to rapidly and accurately calculate patient doses for brachytherapy radiotherapy treatments.

Time July 19, 2010
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July 16, 2010 – Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. this week announced the launch of its ultrasound contrast imaging agent, Definity Vial For (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) Injectable Suspension, in India.

Time July 16, 2010
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July 16, 2010 – Intrinsic Imaging LLC and Merge Healthcare announced this week that they have entered into a technology agreement and Intrinsic will become the first company to implement Merge’s new Clinical Imaging Management System (CIMS).

Time July 16, 2010
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July 16, 2010 – The eRAD Version 6 RIS/PACS Viewer has been validated for compatibility with Microsoft Windows 7 Version 64-bit Operating System workstation environments, eRAD announced earlier this week.

Time July 16, 2010
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June 16, 2010 -- Dynamic EdgeT Gating Technology, the latest innovation of the Calypso System from Calypso Medical Technologies Inc., allows therapists to set motion thresholds which disable radiation delivery if the targeted tissue moves outside the preset threshold. The technology will be demonstrated at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, July 18-21.

Time July 16, 2010
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