Chicago, Ill., USA – At the 99th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today illustrated its technology leadership in medical imaging with the introduction of two fundamentally new developments: its Vereos PET/CT fully digital positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging system, and its IQon Spectral CT1 spectral detector-based computed tomography (CT) imaging system.

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), today announced the publication of an amendment to interventional X-ray standard XR 27, X-ray Equipment for Interventional Procedures User Quality Control Mode.

Spinal cord abnormalities have a strong effect on clinical disability in multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study published in the November issue of Radiology.

Transitioning from film-screen mammography (FSM) to digital mammography (DM) lead to a threefold increase in the detection rate of high-risk breast lesions, according to a study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Younger patients experience poorer short-term quality of life in relation to percutaneous breast biopsy procedures, therefore potentially warranting individualized prebiopsy counseling, according to a study published online Nov. 19 in Radiology.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has begun updating its recommendations on screening for breast cancer, according to its website .

Radcal Corporation announces today that they will launch at the 2013 RSNA their new models of diagnostic X-ray meters and sensors; Accu-Gold+ and Rapid-Gold+ with newly improved stacked sensor Multisensors including a Dual Rad/Fluoro and Mammo all in one Multisensor.

Risk scores computed by a new support vector machine (SVM) model that works with bilateral mammographic feature asymmetry could predict a woman’s near-term risk of developing breast cancer, according to a study published in the December issue of Academic Radiology.