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May 3, 2010 – A point-of-care ultrasound system for use by emergency medical services (EMS) is being developed in collaboration between SonoSite Inc. and Physio-Control Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, the Physio-Control sales organization will assist in introducing SonoSite’s products to the EMS market.

Time May 03, 2010
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May 3, 2010 - Computed radiography (CR) is generally used for standard X-ray imaging. However, CR has been gaining ground with its expansion application for mammography.

Time May 03, 2010
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May 3, 2010 - Wide-bore magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems are designed to meet patient demand for a more comfortable scanning experience. In particular, they accommodate patients who are usually difficult to scan, such as obese, claustrophobic, elderly or very young patients, or those who are in pain and require a larger imaging system.

Time May 03, 2010
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April 29, 2010 - Merge Healthcare announced today it completed the acquisition of Amicas Inc., in which Merge purchased all of the outstanding shares of Amicas common stock for $6.05 per share. To finance the transaction, Merge placed $200 million senior secured notes due 2015, and completed a private placement of preferred and common stock of $41.75 million.

Time April 28, 2010
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April 28, 2010 - A national "CT Dose Summit" will bring together leading experts on medical imaging to lay the foundation for establishing guidelines for performing computed tomography (CT) scans.

Time April 28, 2010
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April 28, 2010 - Molecular imaging can help physicians identify aortic dissection and help guide treatment, according to research published in the May issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Time April 28, 2010
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April 28, 2010 - When St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center (SJRMC) in Paterson and Wayne, N.J., migrated 30 terabytes of image and patient data for more than 20 different picture archiving and communication system (PACS) solutions, it deployed a virtual environment for high availability and failover.

Time April 28, 2010
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April 28, 2010 - Infusing tiny, melanin-covered nanoparticles into patients may protect bone marrow from the harmful effects of radiation therapy, according to scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York City.

Time April 28, 2010
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April 28, 2010 - Sheela D. Konda, M.D., Ph.D., and Morlie Wang, M.D., MPH, are the recipients of the 2010 American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) educational grants sponsored by the medical imaging company. The recipients will be honored during a presentation held at the Scholars and Awards session at the ARRS 2010 Annual Meeting, May 2–7 in San Diego, Calif.

Time April 28, 2010
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April 28, 2010 - New approaches to image-guidance and motion management are making it possible to successfully target lung, liver and spinal tumors, which are hard to reach even with instruments like stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).

Time April 28, 2010
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April 28, 2010 - A new set of criteria could be used to help identify physicians who might benefit from additional training in interpreting screening mammograms, indicates a multisite study led by an Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) Knight Cancer Institute.

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April 28, 2010 - Cancer imaging innovation accounted for 40 percent of the reduction in U.S. cancer deaths between 1996 and 2006, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper.

Time April 27, 2010
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April 27, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced it is changing the way it operates its medical device advisory panels, effective May 1.

Time April 27, 2010
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April 27, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week cleared a large field-of-view, general-purpose portable nuclear imaging system.

Time April 27, 2010
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Feature | Davis W. Graham is executive director/CFO of Manatee Diagnostic Center in Bradenton, Fla.

As the managers of a diagnostic imaging center, my colleagues and I took it upon ourselves to pay a visit to our U.S. senator in Washington D.C., and express our views on the proposed health care bill. We started the dialogue by posing a basic question to the senator’s legislative correspondent on health care and his staff.

Time April 26, 2010
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April 26, 2010 - Performing real-time imaging in the operating room (OR) is a reality today. Intraoperative imaging provides surgeons with navigational accuracy despite anatomical movement that occurs during a surgical procedure. This assists neurosurgeons in conducting tumor resections, while avoiding critical areas of the brain.

Time April 26, 2010
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April 26, 2010 - As magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology is an effective diagnostic tools for cases involving tumors, aneurysms, examining the condition of organs as the heart, liver, kidneys, brain, and in different soft tissue.

Time April 26, 2010
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April 26, 2010 - The introduction of a large field, solid-state portable general-purpose camera makes it possible to image with greater flexability a wide range of nuclear medicine procedures. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave Digirad Corp. 510(k) clearance to market and distribute Ergo, a large field-of-view, general-purpose portable imaging system.

Time April 26, 2010
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April 26, 2010 - Merge Healthcare Inc. and Amicas Inc. today announced the expiration of the tender offer (Offer) for all of the outstanding shares of Amicas’ common stock by Project Ready Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merge Healthcare. The offer expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City, New York time, on Friday, April 23, 2010.

Time April 26, 2010
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April 23, 2010 - Professor Lars Leksell, the inventor of the Gamma Knife, a radiosurgical instrument, performed the world's first Gamma Knife surgery at nearby Sophiahemmet Hospital, the location of the first Leksell Gamma Knife.

Time April 23, 2010
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