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. 

Swissray announces FY04 results

Digital radiography provider Swissray International capped FY04 with a 73 percent jump in revenues compared with FY03, and order backlog increased 3.7 times during the same period.

Healthlink boosts presence in the federal healthcare sector

IT consulting firm Healthlink Inc. of Houston, Texas, has signed a Schedule 70, five-year contract with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

TomTec introduces Research-Arena

TomTec Imaging Systems of Munich, Germany, this week introduced its new off-line platform for advanced cardiac quantification called Research-Arena.

Hook resigns from CTI

CTI Molecular Imaging, Inc. on Tuesday announced the resignation of Thomas J. Hook, who most recently has served as senior vice president of CTI Molecular Imaging and president of CTI Solutions.

GE revamps cardiology services at Doctor's Hospital

Doctor's Hospital in Dallas, Texas will revamp its cardiology services and install systems from GE Healthcare's Cath Lab, including the Innova 3100 flat-panel x-ray system, Mac-Lab IT hemodynamic monitoring, CardioLab IT electrophysiology monitoring and C

IDC plants DR system at two Florida hospitals

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) has installed its Xplorer 1800 digital radiography (DR) system at two Florida-based hospitals: Shands Jacksonville and Jackson County Hospital.

TeraMedica, Capital Data ink agreement

TeraMedica has inked an agreement with Capital Data Inc., a Milwaukee-based provider of enterprise technology systems and financial services.

Varian, Florida Hospital increase radiotherapy training

Varian Medical Systems and Florida Hospital, a healthcare system including 17 Florida hospitals, have formed a strategic alliance to provide a radiation therapy training site at Florida Hospital Celebration Health in Celebration, Fla.

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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