July 29, 2009 - Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., have developed a "molecular imaging" technique for detecting cancer in dense breast tissue using radioactive tracers.

July 29, 2009 - Standard Imaging is highlighting QA BeamChecker Plus Communication software version 2.2 at the AAPM 51st Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif. This is a free upgrade to its current application, adding rotational QA functionality to assist users in maintaining consistent output of their treatment machines.

July 29, 2009 - A new proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to cut payments for radiation therapy treatments would cause many cancer centers to close, stop accepting Medicare patients, lay off support staff and reduce services to cancer patients, according to a survey conducted by ASTRO, the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

July 27, 2009 – Orbital Therapy announces the installation of ClearVue prone breast tables in the radiation therapy department of New York University School of Medicine.

July 27, 2009 - TeraRecon Inc., a leader in advanced visualization and decision support solutions for medical imaging and a partner of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), and Agfa HealthCare released the first cardiac CT review and reporting solution which conforms to the SCCT’s published guidelines* for cardiac CT interpretation.

July 24, 2009 - Biotronics3D has worked with The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) to develop and launch new software called 3D Net Perfusion, a system that extracts data from images of tumors and transforms it into usable information.

July 23, 2009 - The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) is changing its name to World Health Imaging, Telemedicine and Informatics Alliance (WHITIA) and expanding its mission to include bringing access to highly-trained medical professionals and the use of health informatics to help improve healthcare delivery in the developing world. Additionally, WHITIA announced that Newton N.