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. 

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SCAR funds annual grants to support medical research

The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) has funded original research in radiology informatics with two $40,000 grants for 2005.

Siemens acquires CADVision Medical Technologies

Siemens Medical Solutions has acquired CADVision Medical Technologies of Jerusalem, Israel, strengthening its competitive position in the area of computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CAD) and enhancing its oncology product portfolio.

Study: Federal focus on healthcare IT

Nearly half of respondents (48 percent) indicated that creating incentives for organizations using information technology (IT) within the Medicare program will have the most impact toward helping organizations mitigate their financial investment in health

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.

Acusphere announces $70 million European partnership for AI-700

Acusphere Inc. of Watertown, Mass., this week entered into a collaboration, license and supply agreement with Nycomed of Roskilde, Denmark for the European development and marketing rights to Acusphere's lead product candidate AI-700.

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Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.

Cardiovascular Business
FDA clears AI tool that flags signs of heart disease in chest CT scans

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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