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. 

Siemens rolls out 1.5T MR with Tim technology at Pa.-based imaging center

Vision Imaging of Leesport, Pa., has deployed Siemens Medical Solutions' Magnetom Avanto, a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance (MR) system with Tim (total imaging matrix) technology.

SonoSite announces alliance with Aloka

Compact ultrasound systems provider SonoSite Inc. this week inked a distribution agreement for Japan with Aloka Co. Ltd., a Japanese manufacturer and distributor of ultrasound systems.

Kodak provides Unity Health System with Secure Email Services

Eastman Kodak Company says it will deploy its Kodak Secure Email Services at Unity Health System in New York.

Merge eFilm joins Russell 2000 Small Cap Index

Merge eFilm this week joined the Russell 2000 Small Cap Index when the broad-market index was reconstituted on June 25 by Russell Investment Group.

Toshiba to provide multislice CT systems to LERC

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. has inked a preferred provider agreement with Lake Erie Regional Cooperative (LERC) to supply its multislice CT (computed tomography) technology to LERC's 25 hospitals and healthcare organizations across northwest Ohio

GE introduces new LightSpeed VCT system

GE Healthcare introduced its next-generation volume CT (computed tomography) scanner, LightSpeed VCT, at Stanford University's 6th Annual International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT, June 23 - 26, in San Francisco.

Kodak rolls out CR, PACS at Long Island Hospital

Operations at Central Suffolk Hospital of Riverhead, N.Y., are going filmless as the 214-bed hospital purchased digital image capture and information management systems from Eastman Kodak Company's Health Imaging Group.

Siemens receives FDA approvable letter for digital mammo system

Siemens Medical Solutions will soon join the digital mammography market, with the announcement today that it received an approvable letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the MAMMOMAT NovationDR full-field digital mammography system.

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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