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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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ARTISTE Solution is a linear accelerator that provides a comprehensive portfolio of image-guided and advanced treatment ...

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July 16, 2010 – AMD Technologies Inc. this week announced the release of version 5.0 of the Catella PACS system, which features web-based diagnostic viewing.

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July 16, 2010 – Agfa HealthCare announced this week that both its DX-D 500n and DX-D 300 direct radiography (DR) systems now are available for sale in the United States.

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July 16, 2010 – High demand has led Positron Corp. to increase production of Attrius positron emission tomography (PET) scanner with its joint venture, Neusoft Positron Medical Systems, the company announced recently.

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July 15, 2010 -- Carestream Health has filed a lawsuit against Caliper Life Sciences alleging infringement of a patent covering multimodal in vivo imaging.

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July 14, 2010 -- Philips Radiation Oncology has launched a project to triple its engineering staff dedicated to cancer care technology solutions by July 2012. The project includes plans to more than double its workforce in the Madison area by July 2011.

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July 14, 2010 – HP this week introduced a new program to support and accelerate the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) among hospitals and physicians.

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July 14, 2010 – Devicor Medical Products Inc. announced this week the company completed the acquisition of Ethicon Endo-Surgery’s (EES) breast care business. The division sells products designed to help doctors diagnose breast cancer at early stages while minimizing patient discomfort. The business will formally be known as Mammotome, a division of Devicor.

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July 12, 2010 – A new beverage has been released that masks the taste of oral iodinated contrast used in abdominal study CT scans. Breeza, by Beekley Corp., was developed in response to industry requests for a beverage to deliver oral iodinated contrast that patients would find more palatable, enabling them to drink the entire volume within the allotted time.

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July 12, 2010 – AngioDynamics announced today the global expansion of its Smart Port CT family of power-injectable ports, featuring its patented Vortex port technology, to include low-profile and mini models for repeated treatments such as chemotherapy and for use with computed tomography (CT).

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July 12, 2010 – GE Healthcare Medical Diagnostics today announced the market reintroduction of Optison (Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres Injectable Suspension, USP), a diagnostic ultrasound contrast agent for use in select echocardiograms.

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July 12, 2010 – Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. today announced that it has acquired the balance of the worldwide rights for gadofosveset trisodium, a unique, injectable magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) blood pool imaging agent that it currently markets in the United States as Ablavar.

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July 12, 2010 – Health Level Seven Intl. (HL7), a non-profit standards development organization, has submitted comments emphasizing the need for strong health informatics standards to the European Union’s recent public open consultation on the review of the European Standardization System.

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July 9, 2010 – Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. announced this week that it has signed a new manufacturing and supply agreement with MDS Nordion to purchase molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), the parent isotope of technetium-99m (Tc-99m).

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