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. 

Merge eFilm releases new Fusion PACS

Image and information management software provider Merge eFilm has released a new version of its Fusion PACS (picture archiving and communications system), version 1.2.7.

Agfa becomes authorized dealer of InSiteOne products

Agfa Healthcare and InSiteOne Inc. this week solidified an authorized dealer agreement.

Konica Minolta improves CR workflow

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging this week introduced the Konica Minolta Xpress Portable Assistant.

Barco gets FDA OK for mammography CRT

Barco this week announced Food and Drug Administration 510K clearance for its CRT-based MGD 521M display.

Molecular Imaging installs PET technology at Kaweah Delta Health Care District

Molecular Imaging Corp. will roll out its positron emission tomography (PET) technology at certain facilities affiliated with Kaweah Delta Health Care District in the California Central Valley.

ComMedica speeds up transfer of skin images at St. Mary's NHS Trust

ComMedica Ltd.'s web-based telemedicine software has been rolled out at St Mary's NHS Trust in Paddington (London, England) to form an electronic image-sharing link between St Mary's Pediatric A&E department and the specialist Burns Unit at Chelsea & West

Eclipsys, Van Slyck & Associates form strategic alliance

Eclipsys Corp. has formed a strategic relationship with Van Slyck & Associates Inc. (VSA), combining Eclipsys' advanced clinical software with Van Slyck's patient classification/acuity methodology.

Metrx supplies New Hampshire hospital with tools to escalate AAA research project

Medical Metrx Solutions (Metrx) will supply Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, N.H.) the technology needed to accelerate its multiple center clinical study evaluating the rupture risk of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA).

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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