Ohio health system chooses Aurora

The Toledo Hospital Breast Care Center in Ohio, in conjunction with Toledo Radiological Associates, has installed Aurora Imaging Technology’s 1.5 Tesla breast MRI system.

The Toledo Hospital is part of the ProMedica Health System in Toledo, Ohio, a healthcare organization with 15,000 employees, 70 corporations and joint ventures, 2,900 physicians and more than 282 sites in Ohio and in southeast Michigan. 

The Aurora system is an FDA-approved breast MRI system, designed for the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer, according to North Andover, Mass.-based Aurora.

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

Trimed Popup
Trimed Popup