Two cancer centers have carried out radiosurgery treatments formultiple brain metastases using new RapidArc radiotherapy technologyfrom Varian Medical Systems.

University Health Network now has three AquilionOne 320-slice CT systems from Toshiba America Medical Systems installed at three hospitals in its system.

Princeton Regional Orthopedics in Princeton, N.J., is now operational with eRAD PACS.

Like America's obsession with going green—radiology has a new appreciation for ergonomic-driven reading productivity for radiologists. Rightly so. Procedures are increasing in most locales as are the number of images per study, while radiologists are reading more and more studies each year, most often with no increases in staff or radiologists. The answer is more adjustable and ergonomic furniture to make radiologists more comfortable and thus more productive. If you look down the hall, chances are the radiology room has some new creative comforts or plans are in the works. If not, grab some inspiration.

Evidence-based medicine has been building strength over the 15 or so years since the methodologies used to determine “best evidence” were largely established by the McMaster University research group led by David Sackett and Gordon Guyatt.

Health imaging is one area of healthcare that has seen an unprecedented surge in utilization in the past decade. It is perhaps the fastest rising medical expenditure in the United States with an annual growth rate of 9 percent, nearly one-third more than the annual increase in general medical expenditures (approximately 6 percent). As such, policy-makers and payors are increasingly demanding evidence-based data to justify the utilization of many types of imaging procedures.

The most common modalities owned by private-practice radiologists wereMR and CT systems, according to a 2007 survey published in theSeptember issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

BSD Medical and GE Healthcare have signed a collaboration agreement tointegrate BSD’s cancer treatment system with MRI technology from GE.