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. 

Initiate Systems given nod for data sharing initiative in UK

Initiate Systems Inc., a provider of enterprise master person index (EMPI) software and services for managing patient and provider identities, has been selected by United Kingdom-based Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust to manage quality for a

Varian's Trilogy offers hope for inoperable brain ailments

Providence Hospital in Mobile, Ala., has begun treating patients once thought to have inoperable brain ailments with Varian Medical Systems' Trilogy stereotactic system.

Premier Inc. chooses McKesson's PACS

National group purchasing organization Premier Purchasing Partners L.P. inked a multi-source two-year agreement to make McKesson's Horizon Medical Imaging PACS (picture archiving and communications system) service available to Premier's 1,500 member hospi

Zonare, Hologic ink service support agreement

Ultrasound technology developer Zonare Medical Systems has signed a support agreement with Hologic Inc.

FDA OKs Siemens' RT treatment table

Siemens Medical Solutions has received U.S. FDA clearance for its 550 TxT Treatment Table designed for use in radiation therapy treatment environments.

Pie Medical Imaging releases new version of CAAS QCA-Research

Pie Medical Imaging BV of Maastricht, the Netherlands, introduced a new version of its CAAS Quantitative Coronary Analysis for Research software (CAAS QCA-R), QCA for Research 2.0, at the American College of Cardiology meeting, March 6 - 9, in Orlando, Fl

Varian, Xoran integrate technologies

Varian Medical Systems Inc. inked a two-year agreement with compact CT scanner vendor Xoran Technologies Inc. to incorporate Varian's PaxScan amorphous silicon flat-panel digital x-ray detectors into Xoran's MiniCAT for ENT scanners, for imaging by ear/no

Planar releases Dome Dashboard, reports success at Lahey Clinic

Planar Systems Inc. released its remote monitoring software, Dome Dashboard, and said that Xtria Healthcare Solutions division, a managed services provider for the implementation and management of PACS, reports early success after utilizing the calibratio

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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