The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Parascript® AccuDetect® 7.0 for mammography systems manufactured by General Electric, Philips, Hologic, Fujifilm, Carestream, IMS, and Planmed.

Overweight patients are more difficult to image using ultrasound because greater amounts of tissue weaken sound waves as they pass into the body, which hinders the ability to achieve high-resolution images.

Intelerad Medical Systems™, a leader in cross-enterprise medical imaging solutions, today announced the release of their Technologist Portal. Integrated directly into IntelePACS and InteleOne®XE, the solution facilitates case assignment to technologists and allows them to add the information required to fill orders.

Specialists from UBMD Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine are  investigating Carestream’s cone beam CT (CBCT) technology to capture images of patients with orthopaedic conditions as part of ongoing clinical studies. 

On Sunday, Nov. 8, more than 100 medical societies around the world will join the American College of Radiology (ACR), Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and European Society of Radiology (ESR), along with patients and their advocates, in recognizing the International Day of Radiology (IDoR). 

Digisonics has introduced seamless integration between its Cardiovascular Information System Solutions (CVIS) and GE Healthcare’s EchoPAC for advanced analysis of 3D/4D studies and strain rate. A single click launches the EchoPAC software directly from a study image within the Digisonics CVIS.

Three major trials have already established the 30-day clinical and economic soundness of ordering coronary CT angiography in evaluations of patients who show up in the emergency department complaining of chest pain. A new study shows the CCTA pathway to be similarly strong at the 12-month mark. 

At this year’s American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), October 26-29 in Boston, Siemens Healthcare introduces its new hand-carried ACUSON P500™ ultrasound system, FROSK edition.