Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

Novoste, ONI to merge

Novoste Corp. and MRI vendor ONI Medical Systems Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., have entered into an agreement and plan of merger.

SourceOne announces Q1 sales

SourceOne Healthcare Technologies Inc. this week released its first quarter 2005 sales results.

Cardio-Vascular launches new cardiology PACS

Cardio-Vascular Sales (CVS) this week announced the launch of ComPACS, a picture archiving and communications system focused on cardiology.

Fluke releases monitor tester

Fluke Biomedical's Radiation Management Services has announced the release of a new Computer Monitor Tester for testing, repairing and aligning computer monitors, LCD (liquid crystal displays) and video projection systems.

UltraSPECT gets CE Mark for WBR technology

UltraSPECT has received the CE mark for its Wide Beam Reconstruction (WBR) product family, which is designed to improve the productivity and image quality of nuclear medicine gamma cameras.

Kodak launches new breast imaging products at SBI

Eastman Kodak Company is making a number of breast imaging product announcements this week at the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) meeting, May 24-28.

AnyDoc software upgrades scanning software

Automated document and data capture vendor AnyDoc Software has released an upgraded version of its CAPTUREit scanning software.

US healthcare giant places $5.7 million dental CCD order with e2v

Dentrix Dental Systems has announced the placement of a $5.7 million dental CCD (charge couple devices) order with e2v technologies for the continued supply of digital intra-oral dental X-ray sensors.

Around the web

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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