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. 

Heart Core B.V. deploys HeartLab's CardioNow

Heartlab Inc. has completed its first European core lab installation of HeartLab's CardioNow DICOM telecardiology and image management system for cardiovascular device and drug studies at Heart Core B.V. in the Netherlands.

FDA OKs newest DR system from Imaging Dynamics

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) has received U.S. FDA 510k clearance for its Xplorer 1600 CCD-based digital radiography (DR) system.

ScImage upgrades its PACS

ScImage this week released Version 2.0 of its PICOMEnterprise PACS.

IDC supplies Xplorer to VA, announces Singapore distributor

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, will supply its line of Xplorer digital radiography (DR) systems to the department of the United States Veterans Affairs (VA).

Sorna gains distributors, moves headquarters

Sorna Corp. has signed agreements with five radiology equipment dealer/distributors to sell FilmX CD/DVD recorders, archives, digital gateways for printers, LiteBox viewing software and OpenLiteBox image transfer and administrative software.

Fischer commences shipments of Cedara's SenoView workstation

Fischer Imaging Corp. today said it has begun initial shipments of Cedara Software Corp.'s softcopy mammography workstation, SenoView Plus.

Philips: Shipping 40-slice CT and PET/CT system, launching 64-slice upgrade

Philips Medical Systems has begun shipping its Brilliance 40-slice CT scanner to the global imaging community, for installation in October.

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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