September 10, 2009 - Novation LLC, a healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPO), awarded FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA Inc. (Fujifilm), three separate contract extensions for the full line of cassette-based Fuji CR systems (FCR) including the Aspire ClearView for FFDM, the Fuji DR (FDR) systems, and film and imagers.

September 10, 2009 - Hitachi has selected Elekta to provide workflow enhancing software for its PROBEAT proton therapy facility at West Medical Center in Nagoya, Japan. Enabling the facility to manage patient data in a chartless, paperless environment, the facility is the second Hitachi-equipped center to implement MOSAIQ, Elekta's oncology information system (OIS) for cancer care.

September 9, 2009 - Breast cancer surgeons and radiation oncologists at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange delivered intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) using electron beam radiation.

September 9, 2009 - Covidien, a global provider of healthcare products, announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Power Medical Interventions Inc. (PMI) for an aggregate consideration of approximately $65 million, including assumption of debt.

September 9, 2009 – MICCAI 2009, the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, is set to take place in London from 20-24 September 2009.

September 9, 2009 - The ACR has convened a LI-RADS (Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System) Committee to develop a system for standardized reporting and data collection for CT and MR imaging surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The production of CT-MR LI-RADS aims to do the following:

September 8, 2009 - Positron emission tomography (PET)/computer tomography (CT) scans with the imaging agent choline could detect recurring prostate cancer sooner than conventional imaging technologies in some patients who have had their prostates surgically removed, according to a study published in the September issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.