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. 

VitalWorks: Class action complaint dismissed; new executive office location and CFO

VitalWorks Inc. this week announced that on October 1st, U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton dismissed with prejudice the consolidated class action complaint filed against VitalWorks and three of its individual officers and directors.

NIH grants $80 million to biomedical computing centers

Following its roadmap plan for bioinformatics and computational biology, the National Institutes of Health this week named four new national centers for biomedical computing that will develop and implement the core of a universal computing infrastructure

Guardian nets first UK PACS install

A $128,000 contract with UK-based Benenden Hospital Trust puts Guardian Technologies International Inc. in the position to begin offering its PACS technologies and services to the medical imaging community.

E2v exhibits Hi-Art system with compact modulator

e2v technologies showcased TomoTherapy Inc.'s Hi-Art radiotherapy system bundled with its compact modulator at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) this week in Atlanta.

GE announces product enhancements for women's healthcare systems

GE Healthcare this week released enCore, new software enhancements for its Lunar Prodigy Advance bone densitometer.

IMPAC leverages management of oncology data

IMPAC Medical Systems Inc. launched Analytiq and Mosaiq at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) this week in Atlanta.

Mitsubishi ships new DVH

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America Inc. of Irvine, Calif., a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. of Tokyo, Japan, has begun shipping its new DX-TL910U DVR (digital video recorder).

GE demonstrates 4D gating technology for radiotherapy planning

GE Healthcare exhibited its Advantage 4D gating technology used with multislice CT and PET/CT to analyze respiration-induced motion in the lung, breast and other cancers at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Onco

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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