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. 

TeraMedica inks agreement with I2m

TeraMedica has signed an agreement with Australian-based Intelligent Image Management (I2m) that authorizes I2m to license TeraMedica's Intelligent Image Manager (TI2m) in Australia and South Asia and re-sell TI2m software to healthcare providers in the r

AHRA Education Foundation announces Osborn scholarship recipients

The American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) Education Foundation this week revealed the winners of the 2004 AHRA Education Foundation Osborn Scholarship for the organization's annual meeting and exposition, August 1 - 5, in Boston.

Matrox tests projector system to display medical images, announces Avnet will bundle technology

Matrox Graphics Inc. has tested its TheatreVUE display projector controller boards with Lariviere and Image Smiths' VeriLUM for LCD/DLP and D-ILA Projectors system.

SNM names new VP-elect

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) has named Martin P. Sandler, MD, chairman of the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn., as vice president-elect through June 2005, then as presid

Misys post record revenues of $507 million

Misys Healthcare Systems posted solid revenue growth for its fiscal year 2004, ending May 31st, as revenues grew 8 percent to $507 million.

ASTRO announces 2004 award winners

The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) this week released the names of the recipients of the 2004 Junior Faculty Research Award and Resident Clinical/Basic Research Award.

Kodak's medical imaging technology to be used at summer Olympic games

Technology from Eastman Kodak Co.'s Health Imaging Group will be used during next month's Olympic Games in Athens to send digital images and accompanying reports to Attiko University Hospital in Athens, which will assist in serving Olympic athletes and of

HIMSS finalizes sale of Dorenfest IHDS+ Database

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has assumed complete control of The Dorenfest IHDS+ Database and related business assets from Sheldon I. Dorenfest & Associates Ltd., a Chicago-based provider of health information technolo

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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