July 17, 2009 - In 2007, 20 high-use counties accounted for 16 percent of Part B spending on ultrasound despite having only 6 percent of Medicare beneficiaries, according to findings from a report issued by the office of Inspector General (OIG) released on July 10, 2009

July 17, 2009 - After doctors at the Space Coast Cancer Center in Titusville, Fla., surgically removed a brain tumor, the patient’s daily treatments are taking just two minutes to complete, rather than the typical 20 minute session, using Varian Medical System’s RapidArc radiotherapy technology.

July 16, 2009 - Agfa HealthCare said today it expanded the capabilities of its IMPAX Cardiovascular (IMPAX CV) with advanced software for cardiology outcomes management from Cedaron Medical.

July 16, 2009 - INFINITT North America, a web-based RIS, PACS and advanced visualization solutions provider, will partner with Great Valley Technologies (GVT) to offer its single-database RIS and PACS with fully-integrated billing capabilities.

July 16, 2009 - Principal investigator, radiologist Dr. Alexander Poellinger, and his team of researchers at the Charité, Medical University in Berlin, Germany, will use fluorescent dye to demonstrate an enhancement of the sensitivity and the specificity of diffuse optical tomography in a new a breast cancer imaging study.

July 16, 2009 - GE Healthcare today introduced its Innova Dose Reports, a service for centers that operate the Innova interventional X-ray systems. The system’s InSite broadband connection to GE remotely collects critical information on procedure utilization, views, dose usage per procedure and dose utilization trends during a given month.

July 15, 2009 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology has published a consensus statement outlining patient selection criteria and best practices for the use of accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) outside the context of a clinical trial in the July 15 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of ASTRO.

July 15, 2009 - GE Healthcare partnered with Medicalis, a provider of clinical decision support for diagnostic imaging (CDS-DI), to help drive quality healthcare and reduce unnecessary imaging procedures and costs.

July 14, 2009 - ACRIN has developed a qualification procedure for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners at participating institutions designed to check the basic system calibrations and to verify that the clinical image quality is adequate for semiquantitative analysis of PET data, reported a paper published online in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 50, No. 7, on June 12, 2009.

July 14, 2009 - Researchers detected amyloid beta plaques with a diameter of less than 30 µm in a mouse brain by doing CT diffraction-enhanced imaging, according to researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y., and the State University of New York, Stony Brook.