November 1, 2021 — Koning begins an FDA screening trial this month for their no-compression, Isotropic, 3-dimensional breast imaging device. The company received FDA PMA approval for commercial, diagnostic use in 2017. Since then, the Koning Breast CT (KBCT) has been installed in clinics and universities in the US and globally.

November 1, 2021 — Researchers in the U.S. and Japan have demonstrated the first experimental cross-sectional medical image that doesn’t require tomography, a mathematical process used to reconstruct images in computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) scans. The work, published Oct. 14 in Nature Photonics, could lead to cheaper, easier and more accurate medical imaging. 

November 1, 2021 — Long-term cognitive problems after a COVID-19 diagnosis may be a result of fatigue rather than pathological changes in the brain, according to a study published ahead-of-print in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

October 29, 2021 — ClariPi Inc. recently announced that its ClariCT.AI software will be available on the Nuance AI Marketplace, the first and largest portal with one-stop access to a wide range of AI diagnostic models from within the industry’s most widely used radiology reporting platform.

October 29, 2021 — NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC, a global innovator in the development, production and commercialization of radiopharmaceuticals used for medical imaging and therapeutic applications, hosted a growth and production expansion event, “Acce

October 29, 2021 — In a new single-arm study, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported that radiation therapy as monotherapy is a safe and effective noninvasive treatment for oligometastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The findings were published today in The Lancet Oncology.

This is a virtual tour of the New Elekta Harmony radiation therapy system at the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 2021 meeting this week. It gained FDA clearance in the summer of 2021. It offers faster treatment times and a large round patient Information screen screen on the machine so their information is immediately available table side. It uses facial recognition to verify the correct patient is in the room for treatment.

This is a 360 degree view inside one of the brachytherapy treatment rooms at Northwestern Medicine's center in Warrenville, Ill., in the western suburbs of Chicago. The room is equipped with a Varian VariSource brachytherapy afterloader, which stores the radioactive brachytherapy seeds in a shielded container, and can push them out through catheters into the patient. The seed catheter ports are numbered to match their insertion into a patient.

October 28, 2021 — In a phase 2 single-institution study, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found that dose-equivalent preoperative radiation therapy for extremity/trunk soft tissue sarcoma delivered in five days rather than over the conventional five weeks produced similar benefits and treatment side effects.

October 28, 2021 — An individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis of randomized, controlled clinical trials provides strong evidence for the addition of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to definitive radiotherapy (RT) for the treatment of prostate cancer, with the projection that adding ADT

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