Smart card technology could be used to easily track the radiation doses patients receive from medical imaging studies, according to an article detailing the process of a prototype smart card system published in the April issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Aspect Imaging, the world leading developer of compact high-performance magnets, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Company's M2™ compact MRI system for diagnostic imaging of the wrist.

Ultrasound exams assessing liver stiffness can help predict survival among patients with chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection, according to research published April 22 in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

Elekta (NSE: EKTAb) and Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced today that The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has signed an agreement to join a research group to advance the development of ground-breaking image-guided treatment technology for cancer care.

A statewide breast screening ultrasound program that recommended ultrasound for women with greater than 50 percent breast density was linked with the detection of an additional 3.4 cancers or high-risk lesions per 1,000 women screened, according to research presented April 18 at the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) in Washington, D.C.

Nearly 2,000 U.S. troops have had to undergo an amputation due to injuries sustained in Iraq or Afghanistan since the respective starts of those conflicts. While each of those injuries is gruesome and tragic, the advances in medicine brought about by their treatment are making their way back home and stand to help victims of the bombings at the Boston Marathon, according to an AP report.

HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HealthTrust), one of the largest health care supply contracting companies in the United States, has awarded IRadimed Corporation a contract for its MRidium™ MRI Infusion Pump Systems.

Abdominal CT images taken for any reason, that include the lumbar spine, can be used for the additional purpose of identifying patients with osteoporosis, according to a study published April 16 in Annals of Internal Medicine.