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. 

Varian highlights software for advanced radiotherapy treatments

New software for digital data management and automating quality assurance (QA) and regulatory requirements is being introduced by Varian Medical Systems in order to make it possible for cancer clinics to implement advanced radiotherapy treatments more eas

Swearingen building new headquarters

Swearingen Software announced this week that by the end of the year it will relocate its headquarters to a soon-to-be-constructed 8,200 square foot building in Northwest Houston.

FDA approves Siemens full-field digital mammo system

Siemens Medical Solutions is now the fourth member of the full-field digital mammography (FFDM) pack, announcing this week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval of its pre-market approval application for the Mammomat Novati

Online ordering percentage increases at UHN with Misys CPR

Having almost reached its goal of full activation of its computerized physician order entry (CPOE) throughout the enterprise, general internal medicine physicians at University Health Network's (UHN) Toronto General Hospital are now placing 95 percent of

Nucletron previews new IMRT system

Nucletron is scheduled to release its new IMRT (intensity modulated radiation therapy) planning system called the Oncentra Optimizer in the first quarter of 2005.

NetApp revenues surge 38 percent in 1Q FY05

Network Appliance Inc. came out of the gates galloping, reporting its revenues for the first quarter of FY05 to be $358.4 million - an increase of 38 percent compared with revenues of $260.5 million in the year-ago quarter.

Sonotech unveils single dose gel packets for ultrasound

Sonotech Inc. has introduced Clear Image Singles, single dose ultrasound scanning gel packets designed specifically to eliminate cross contamination from refilled gel bottles.

Volugraphics releases new Volugram printer

Volugraphics Inc. of Atlanta, Ga., this week released a new three-dimensional (3D) hardcopy printing and imaging system that delivers autostereoscopic prints and transparencies.

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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