Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. announced its participation as a sponsor of the Pre-Conference Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) Workshop at the 2017 Society of Breast Imaging (SBI)/American College of Radiology (ACR) Breast Imaging Symposium, April 6-9 in Los Angeles. The workshop provided eight hours of initial training in DBT as required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and attendees had the opportunity to review and report cases on individual DBT workstations, such as Konica Minolta’s Exa Mammo.

GE Healthcare will showcase Signa Premier, its U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k)-pending, wide bore 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system at the 25th International Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (ISMRM) Annual Meeting, April 22-27 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Radiologists may not consider imaging systems to be at high risk of cyber attack. But it is for exactly this reason that radiologists must be especially careful.

Samsung announces that the GC70 Digital Radiography (DR) system received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the U.S. market.

Jason P. Sheehan, M.D., Ph.D., FAANS, winner of the Leksell Radiosurgery Award, presented his research on stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in patients with nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas during the 2017 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Scientific Meeting, April 22-26 in Los Angeles.

RamSoft recently announced their plan to demonstrate four new products at the 2017 Radiology Business Management Assoication (RBMA) PaRADigm annual meeting, April 23-26 in Chicago. The new products — including Universal Worklist, Patient+, Availity Authorizations and Availity Patient Access — are available within RamSoft’s PowerServer RIS/PACS (radiology information system/picture archiving and communication system), PACS and Tele Plus. They are designed to streamline workflow to improve patient care, maximize productivity, strengthen relationships with referrers and increase revenue.

April 26, 2017 — The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) continues to build its NCCN Radiation Therapy Compendium with the publication of radiation therapy (RT) recommendations from an additional nine NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines):

The new guidelines include recommendations for:

 Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts signed LB195, Cheri's Law, on Wednesday, making it the 32nd state to report dense fibroglandular breast tissue to the patient through the mammography report in some fashion. 

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