Diagnostic Imaging

Radiologists use diagnostic imaging to non-invasively look inside the body to help determine the causes of an injury or an illness, and confirm a diagnosis. Providers use many imaging modalities to do so, including CT, MRI, X-ray, Ultrasound, PET and more.

Emageon year-end revenue increases 97%

Emageon Inc. this week released financial results for the quarter and the year ending December 31, 2004.

Biosound Esaote announces MyLab enhancements

Ultrasound vendor Biosound Esaote of Indianapolis, Ind. has released a new version of its operating system software - MyLab30CV - and introduced a portable ultrasound imaging system, MyLab25.

3T for the Masses

3T MRI made its name with brain studies at research institutes. But now it is cross-pollinating in academic and community-based medical centers, performing a wider variety of scans.

Emageon closes initial public offering

Emageon Inc. announced the closing of its initial public offering of $5 million shares of its common stock at a price of $13.00 a share.

Analogic sells Cedara shares

Cedara Software Corp. announced that Analogic Corp. sold the 4,580,461 shares it held in Cedara, representing approximately 14.6 percent of the company's outstanding shares.

Sun supports NetApp network file system protocol

Network Appliance Inc. this week announced that Sun Java System Messaging Server now supports the NetApp implementation of the Network File System (NFS) protocol to provide increased data management and compliance capabilities in the Sun Java System Messa

i3Archive expands NDMA's customer base

i3Archive Inc. of Berwyn, Penn. has launched the Patient Portability Program that provides access to the National Digital Mammography Archive (NDMA) to women directly.

Toshiba's 64-slice scanner finds home in Texas heart center

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. (TAMS) has installed its Aquilion 64 CFX multislice CT system at the Woodlands North Houston Heart Center in Texas.

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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. 

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