Mevion Medical Systems announced that University Hospitals (UH) in Cleveland used the Mevion S250 proton therapy system to treat its first patient, a 24-year-old woman with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of sarcoma.

Work pressures, money issues, exams, perhaps an illness in the family — these are common strains in every person's life. But when such daily battles are fought over long periods of time, we become subject to chronic stress.

The ACR has named Computerized Imaging Reference Systems, Inc. (CIRS) an approved vendor for the new ACR Digital Mammography Phantom. 

Varian Medical Systems will be demonstrating its latest radiotherapy and radiosurgery technologies and software July 31 – August 3 in Washington, D.C., at the 2016 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) show. The company will also be hosting a developer workshop July 29-30.

SIIM Wisconsin Regional Meeting

A U.K-Poland consortium was recently awarded a €1.1M grant to develop a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based medical device to diagnose liver disease in children. Such a device could save children in the future from having to undergo biopsies.

July 27, 2016 — Virtual Imaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. Inc., announced the new RadPRO  Mobile 40kW Flex Plus Digital X-ray System.

RadPRO Mobile 40kW Flex Plus

The Internet of Things (IoT) has carved an in-road for hackers to just about everything electronic from e-mail servers to automobiles and Internet-connected kitchen refrigerators. Imaging equipment is just a segment of that unsafe world — but a remarkably vulnerable one.

Among patients with up to three brain metastases, the use of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) alone, compared with SRS combined with whole brain radiotherapy, resulted in less cognitive deterioration at 3 months.

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