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. 

Civco unveils new bracket for ultrasound transducers

Civco Medical Instruments, of Kalona, Iowa, has introduced a single-angle bracket compatible with Medison C2-6IC ultrasound transducers.

iCAD completes merger with CADx Systems, Qualia Computing

iCAD Inc., CADx Systems Inc. and CADx's parent company, Qualia Computing Inc., closed out 2003 by becoming one and completing their proposed merger.

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-Orlando utilizes new helical tomotherapy system

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Orlando, Fla., has begun using a procedure called tomotherapy -- a form of image-guided intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) -- to treat patients with head, neck, prostate, lung and/or breast cancer.

Camera pill can help in finding abnormalities in small intestines

The diagnosis of small bowel disease appears to have taken a major step forward, thanks to an ingestible video camera that produces digital images of the small intestine.

Array Corp. USA and Fujifilm Medical sign digitizer marketing pact

Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc. will market Array Corp. USA's Array 2905 HD laser film digitizer through a newly signed distribution agreement.

Philips Medical Systems, EP MedSystems partner in EP technology

Philips Medical Systems and EP MedSystems Inc. have aligned in the area of electrophysiology (EP) to diagnose and treat cardiac rhythm disorders.

OSI Systems to buy Spacelabs Medical from General Electric

General Electric Co. (GE) on Tuesday unveiled an agreement to sell patient monitoring and clinical information systems firm Spacelabs Medical to OSI Systems Inc. to comply with a requisite of GE's acquisition of Instrumentarium Corp.

EMC closes on billion-dollar buy of Documentum

EMC Corp. received an early Christmas present last month when the storage technology company completed its acquisition of enterprise content management firm Documentum Inc. for $1.48 billion.

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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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