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. 

Trestle Holdings, Bostwick Laboratories align on telepathology

Trestle Holdings Inc. will provide its MedMicro telepathology technology to Bostwick Laboratories under a new working agreement.

Vital Images offers $12 million-plus to acquire HInnovation

Vital Images Inc. is kicking off the new year with immediate expansion plans.

Varian Medical Systems receives 510(k) clearance for two new products

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to Varian Medical Systems Inc. for its 3D cone-beam computed tomography imaging system on a radiation therapy simulation and verification device and the company's Trilogy linear accelerator for stereotactic and advance

Dalsa debuts FPX-CMOS for breast imaging

Dalsa Corp. has launched a new digital cassette camera for spot imaging and stereotactic biopsy.

Fujifilm awarded FDA 510(k) for dry laser imagers with FFDM

The FDA has given 510(k) clearance to Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc.'s DryPix dry laser imagers for use with full-field digital mammography (FFDM).

AccuSoft announces new agreement and two extensions

AccuSoft Corp. has signed NextGen Healthcare Information Systems Inc. as a new customer and has secured what the company describes as "significant additional business" with both GE Medical Systems (GEMS) and DocStar.

Fischer Imaging receives SBIR grant for IBM initiative

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded Fischer Imaging Corp. a $1.2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to fund a project with IBM Corp.

NovaRad adds iPro to its network

Healthcare technology distributor and consultant iPro Inc. has inked a deal to market NovaRad's NovaPACS.

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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