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. 

i3ARCHIVE adopts new 3G standards into NDMA

Becoming the first company to adopt the new third-generation (3G) standards for Grid Computing in the medical community, i3ARCHIVE Inc. will integrate the standards into its National Digital Mammography Archive (NDMA), an archive of digital mammography im

Data-Ray closing its doors

Medical display firm Data-Ray Corp. is going out of business, after its parent company, Nippon Chemi-Con Corp. announced July 1st that it will discontinue operations of Data-Ray and the Medical Display LCD business.

NOMOS launches IGRT optical camera targeting system

North American Scientific Inc.'s NOMOS Radiation Oncology Division has launched a new image-guided tracking feature that expands clinical applications for its innovative tumor imaging systems.

R2 gets FDA nod for CAD for multislice CT lung nodule detection

CAD developer R2 Technology Inc. this week announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its ImageChecker CT CAD software system.

Agfa to offer Initiate's MPI as part of IMPAX

Agfa Healthcare and Initiate Systems Inc., provider of enterprise master person index (EMPI) software and services, this week inked a reseller agreement allowing Agfa to offer Initiate's MPI software as an integrated component of its IMPAX Enterprise Imag

Fonar Stand-Up MRI sales climb to 90

Fonar Corp. has sold 43 Stand-Up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners over the 12-month period ending June 2004, representing an 87 percent increase in sales when compared to the 23 units sold in the year ago period.

Pyers takes helm at Unfors

Former VP of Sales & Marketing Patrick Pyers has been promoted to President of Unfors Instruments Inc.

CTI reports lower than expected net revenues for third fiscal quarter of FY04

CTI Molecular Imaging Inc. this week revealed that net revenues and earnings for the third fiscal quarter of FY04, ending June 30, will be below prior expectations.

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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