Siemens Healthcare has announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently cleared the company’s CAIPIRINHA (Controlled Aliasing in Volumetric Parallel Imaging Results IN Higher Acceleration) software as part of Siemens’ syngo MR D13A software package for parallel magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.

Through the 17 weeks of the National Football League 2012 regular season and four weeks of playoffs, there were 170 reported concussions, according to a collaborative effort to track the injuries conducted by PBS’ Frontline and ESPN.

Analogic Corporation (Nasdaq:ALOG), enabling the world's medical imaging and aviation security technology, announced today that it will showcase its full suite of ultrasound imaging solutions, which offer clinicians a potentially faster and easier way to maximize ultrasound performance in urology and renal imaging, at the American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting, May 4-8, in San Diego.

Viztek, a leading provider of complete digital software and hardware diagnostic imaging solutions, introduces the Leggera Wireless Panel, expanding the Leggera DR (Direct Radiography) Solutions product line to now include the lightest - 6.1 lb, ISO 4090 cassette size- wireless panel available to the market.

ZONARE Medical Systems, the pioneer and developer of next generation ultrasound technology, is experiencing significant growth in the expanding vascular healthcare market with several customers purchasing additional ZONARE systems to support practice growth.

Digital tomosynthesis (DTS) could be utilized as a companion study to chest x-ray radiography (CXR) for imaging suspected thoracic lesions, as it resolves doubtful CXR findings in roughly three-quarters of cases without the need for follow-up CT, according to a study published in the May issue of Academic Radiology.

Women with breast cancer who experience significant reductions in relative breast tissue density during tamoxifen treatment have their risk of death as a result of breast cancer cut in half, according to a study published online April 22 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Last week, an article in the Journal of the American College of Radiology discussed an effort to eliminate the words ‘gross’ and ‘grossly’ from reports because of their multiple meanings. However, an excerpt from a report on General Surgery News’ blog may just take the cake for ambiguity.