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. 

Analogic announces revenues and earnings for its third fiscal quarter FY04

Analogic Corp. says that its decrease in revenue from last year "is about as expected" in response to its sales and earnings in the third fiscal quarter of FY04, ending April 30.

Kodak debuts enhancements to CR platform

Eastman Kodak Co. has unveiled enhancements to its computed radiography (CR) portfolio.

EMC extends ILM for compliance

New offerings from EMC Corp. intend to enhance customers' IT capabilities for compliance through its information lifecycle management (ILM)

MedPACS announces updates to its Vista PACS

MedPACS Displays Inc. this week launched updates to its Vista Intranet and Internet-enabled PACS (picture archiving and communications system).

Study: U.S. healthcare ready to allocate more money for IT

Sixty-six percent of U.S. healthcare providers are expected to increase their information technology budgets by at least 10 percent between now and 2006.

NetApp debuts new midrange unified storage models

Storage systems provider Network Appliance Inc. has launched new additions to its unified storage platform: the FAS920 and FAS920c.

Kodak's Health Imaging Division welcomes Lewis

Philip J. Lewis has been named national sales manager, professional services, U.S. and Canada, for Eastman Kodak's Health Imaging Group.

Confirma, iCAD to market combined mammo and breast MRI CAD technologies

Computer-aided detection (CAD) firms Confirma Inc. and iCAD Inc. have signed an agreement to market each other's respective CAD technologies.

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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