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February 3, 2009 - The Image Gently campaign has developed new materials to educate parents about medical imaging and to help them track their child’s past imaging exams, in an effort to continue to raise awareness about opportunities to lower radiation dose used in pediatric imaging exams.

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February 3, 2009 - The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) announced that the 2009 ASRT election polls are now open, and all members who joined on or before Dec. 30, 2008 are eligible to vote.

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February 2, 2009 - CardiArc, Inc., along with Clinical Engineering Consultants Inc. (CEC) of Erlanger, KY, today said CEC will provide field service for the CardiArc HD-SPECT system. CEC also brings technical consultation with CardiArc on the field service manual. In addition CEC will sell the CardiArc system in the Ohio River Valley area.

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February 3, 2009 – Array Corp. said it has upgraded its DICOM 2905 laser film digitizer from 4.0 to 4.3 optical density range.

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February 3, 2009 - The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) said it has made important updates to the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Risk Reduction.

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February 3, 2009 – Hologic’s first quarter results for 2009, ending December 27, 2008, showed revenues of $429.2 million, a 16 percent increase when compared to revenues of $371.4 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2008.

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February 3, 2009 - The shapes of some of the tiniest cellular structures are coming into sharper focus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus, where scientists have developed a new imaging technology that produces the best three-dimensional resolution ever seen with an optical microscope.

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February 3, 2009 – Fluke Biomedical recognized the work of Radiology Mammography International (RMI) with the donation of two MQSA Mammography Phantoms for use in an upcoming mission to Nairobi, Kenya.

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February 3, 2009 - Dilon Technologies Inc. today released two new collimators: the Slant15 Collimator for breast imaging and the Low Energy High-Resolution (LEHR) Collimator. Both collimators are attachment options for the Dilon 6800 Gamma Camera that help to optimize imaging for the respective applications.

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February 3, 2009 - Ochsner Health System of New Orleans has deployed the IMPAX Data Center by Agfa HealthCare to manage diagnostic image access and distribution across the enterprise, providing a complete view of patient imaging data for seven hospitals and 35 health clinics in New Orleans.

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February 3, 2009 – Barco closed the divestment operation of its Advanced Visualization (AVIS) activities to Toshiba Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, Japan, in a move by Barco to focus on its medical display systems business.

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February 3, 2009 - SonoSite Inc. said its new SonoGT Global Target technology is now available on its mountable S Series ultrasound tools. The new performance platform delivers enhanced color flow sensitivity, wireless connectivity, including a remote control for hands-free system control and workflow integration for multiple point-of-care application markets.

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February 2, 2009 – Motion Computing, a mobile computing and wireless communications, and Sig-Tec, an identity and access management software company, said today that they have created a partnership to deliver solutions for mobility, information security and clinical workflow.

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February 2, 2009 - SNM today announced FDA approval of an SNM-sponsored centralized multi-center investigational new drug (IND) application for 18F-labeled 3’-deoxy-3’-fluorothymidine (FLT).

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February 2, 2009 – GE Healthcare IT launched of Centricity Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Services version 5.2, a significant release which introduces new efficiencies in the healthcare claims and payments process, providing tools to help customers track key indicators of financial health

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February 2, 2009 - Diagnosoft Inc. has unveiled its newest software solution, the Diagnosoft SENC. Strain-encoding (SENC).

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February 2, 2009 - Looming demographic shifts in the U.S. over the coming 20 years are projected to result in major increases in breast cancer cases among the elderly and in minorities.

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February 2, 2009 - Varian Medical Systems reported first quarter revenues rose 13 percent to $509 million, net orders rose 13 percent to $551 million, and the quarter-ending backlog rose 14 percent to $1.9 billion, compared to continuing operations in the year-ago quarter.

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February 2, 2009 - A new technique combining computed tomography (CT) with fiber-coated surgical microcoils allows physicians to successfully locate and remove small lung nodules without the need for a more invasive procedure, according to a new study published in the February issue of Radiology.

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February 2, 2009 - An online survey of 1,888 physicians, medical group executives and staff, released today by Allscripts, concludes that U.S. physician groups are eager to accept a proposed multi-billion dollar package of government loans, grants and incentives designed to promote broader adoption of information technologies such as the electronic health record (EHR).

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