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.

New version of Voxar 3D integrated into Agfa's Impax PACS

Agfa Healthcare has integrated Voxar's viewing software -- Voxar 3D version 4.2 - into the Agfa Impax PACS.

Cedara Software signs agreements with Siemens and Aloka

Cedara Software Corp. has inked supply pacts with Siemens Medical Solutions and Aloka Co. Ltd.

SonoSite upgrades Titan for cardiac applications

SonoSite Inc. is enhancing its Titan high-resolution, hand-carried ultrasound system by adding cardiac-specific features.

Study: The use of BMS' Cardiolite may lead to fewer cardiac caths

Bristol-Myers Squibb's (BMS) Medical Imaging division released new findings at ACC 2004 that suggest more than one-third of patients hospitalized at the initial onset of heart failure who undergo myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with Cardiolite may not

New QA tools from Cardinal Health

The Radiation Management Services division of Cardinal Health Inc. unveils three new quality assurance (QA) instruments for diagnostic imaging systems.

Alliance Imaging revenues hold steady in 2003

Alliance Imaging Inc.'s revenues inched upward 1 percent in 2003, as the company focuses on its core MRI services business segment.

FDA clears Draximage's skeletal imaging agent

Draximage Inc. has received approval from the FDA to produce and market a new formulation of a diagnostic product -- called MDP-25 -- for preparing a skeletal imaging agent used to demonstrate areas of altered osteogenesis or bone growth.

Kodak describes worldwide demand for digital imaging systems as strong

Eastman Kodak Co. says that customer worldwide demand for its digital medical imaging and information systems is growing "significantly."

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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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