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. 

ECRI schedules audio PACS conference

ECRI will hold an audio conference on the "Next-Generation PACS: Planning, Purchasing, and Implementation" on May 12 from 1:00 to 2:15 p.m. EDT.

Actuality System introduces spatial 3D interventional planning tool for research

Actuality Systems Inc. has released Perspecta Medical, a spatial 3D system for surgical and interventional planning for use in research.

March brings record sales to Swissray

Swissray International Inc. is reporting record sales for the month of March.

Fuji Medical to offer SCAR scholarship

Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc. has created a scholarship to alleviate the expenses for a prospective PACS administrator to attend this year's annual meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology's (SCAR) PACS Administration Overview Cou

Cedara inks software supply agreement with Hitachi Medical

Software provider Cedara Software Corp. has signed an agreement with Hitachi Medical Corp. to supply certain of Cedara's medical imaging technologies and services to Hitachi.

CMS gives rural and small urban hospitals a financial boost

Beginning today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement several provisions of a new Medicare law that increases payment rates for rural and urban hospitals in areas with less than 1 million people.

Varian Medical Systems brings OpTx into the fold

Varian Medical Systems Inc. on Monday completed the acquisition of OpTx Corp., the Denver-based supplier of software for medical oncology practices in cancer clinics.

IBM and Affymetrix partner on genomic research and clinical patient data

IBM Corp. and Affymetrix Inc. have agreed to collaborate on the creation of what they describe as "open standards technologies," including the Affymetrix GeneChip technology and IBM professional services in regulatory compliance, business integration and

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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