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. 

Gamma Medica launches new option for X-SPECT

Gamma Medica this week unveiled a cardiac gating sub-system for its X-SPECT preclinical imaging system.

R2 to provide CAD products to MedAssets HSCA members

R2 Technology Inc. has inked a three-year agreement with St. Louis, Mo.-based group purchasing organization MedAssets HSCA.

Suri takes applied R&D post at Fischer Imaging

Fischer Imaging Corp. has named Jasjit Suri, PhD, to the newly created position of senior director of applied research and development.

Cedara supports Science North's Human Machine exhibit

Cedara Software Corp. has partnered with Science North in Sudbury, Ontario, in the creation of a new medical diagnostic imaging exhibit.

DeJarnette deploys fifth dyseCT

DeJarnette Research Systems Inc. deployed its fifth dyseCT system at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut.

Confirma rolls out breast MRI system at four CDI sites

Confirma Inc. will be the exclusive provider of CAD (computer-aided detection) technology for breast MRI for the Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI).

Molecular Imaging rolls out PET at L.A. hospital

Molecular Imaging Corp. will provide positron emission tomography (PET) imaging services to St. Francis Medical Center.

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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