Medicine supposedly aches for a universal viewer, one that can satisfy the needs of every physician — cardiologist, radiologist, dermatologist, orthopedist; and display its images on whatever device — laptop, desktop, tablet or smartphone.

With increased use of computed tomography (CT) scans, radiologists and other experts — including Donald Frush, M.D., medical director of the Duke Medical Radiation Center and a co-author of a new World Health Organization (WHO) report — are urging awareness and accountability around medical scans for children.

The global market for contrast media injectors is set to increase from $830 million in 2015 to almost $1.8 billion by 2022, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData.

May 3, 2016 — Good news for clinicians and their patients: the evaluation of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function using echocardiography just got a bit simpler. New streamlined algorithms have been developed since an earlier joint publication by the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI).

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Mirada Medical announced it will showcase its latest solutions for radiotherapy, including RTx and Workflow Box, at the European Society for Radiation Oncology (ESTRO) 2016 Congress, April 29-May 2 in Torino, Italy.

Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc. announced its All-Inclusive Service and Support Program for its Premium Performance Scenaria SE 64/128-slice computed tomography (CT) system.

Researchers with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have collaborated with physicians and medical geneticists around the world to create the Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations.

May 2, 2016 — Elekta announced that Monaco version 5.11, the latest update to its treatment planning software, is available for clinical release.

Real-world testing has shown that Monaco version 5.11 provides significant performance speed enhancements over prior versions. Users can now attain calculation speeds up to four times faster than in previous versions of Monaco. With the Monte Carlo algorithm, users can achieve robust accuracy combined with speed and performance.

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