August 3, 2009 - The Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI), a national network of 51 imaging centers based in Minneapolis, Minn., signed a contract with Merge Healthcare to use Merge Mammo 7.2, the newest version of Merge’s breast imaging workstation software.

July 30, 2009 - The Senographe Essential Interventional is an add-on digital stereotaxy option on the company’s innovative Senographe Essential digital mammography platform, which it will show at the Breast Imaging Conference (BIC), held Sept. 15-17, in Glendale, Ariz.

July 30, 2009 - Scientists reporting in the July 31 issue of SCIENCE have discovered a key disease-related biologic pathway using an integrated and innovative array of in vitro readouts and advanced in vivo imaging technologies, reported VisEn Medical Inc., a fluorescence in vivo imaging company.

July 30, 2009 - The iso-omolar contrast medium iodixanol does not yield lower rates of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) than low-osmolar contrast media (LOCM), according to a meta-analysis published in the July 2009 issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.

July 30, 2009 – What’s the funniest thing that has happened in your office? That is what FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA wants to know in a video contest it is launching in conjunction with the introduction and release of the new Fuji Computed Radiography (FCR) Prima digital X-ray system.

July 30, 2009 - Patients and leading patient advocates from across the country, in partnership with the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA, a division of NEMA), gathered yesterday at the U.S.

July 29, 2009 - The latest post-9/11 standards for tracking radioactive materials, the long-term trends in radiation exposure to physicians and the public, and some of the latest ideas for minimizing medical radiation dosage to children, adults and health professionals are focal points at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 51st Annual Meeting, taking place from July 26 - 30,

July 29, 2009 - A computer program designed by a University of Chicago team uses artificial intelligence to analyze the features of ultrasound images in order to help doctors predict earlier whether a woman's cancer has metastasized.

July 29, 2009 - The tubes that power X-ray machines are shrinking, improving the clarity and detail of their Superman-like vision, according to a team of nanomaterial scientists, medical physicists and cancer biologists at the University of North Carolina.

July 29, 2009 - At the 2009 AAPM 51st Annual Meeting, July 26-30, in Anaheim, Calif., Elekta is demonstrating at booth 423 VMAT solutions, including treatment planning software and oncology-specific EMR.