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. 

Amerinet to make available Varian's oncology systems to members

Varian Medical Systems Inc. and Amerinet Inc. have renewed an agreement to supply Amerinet members with systems for treating cancer with radiotherapy.

Agfa releases a host of new agreements

Agfa Healthcare has confirmed a series of new initiatives with three new or existing partners.

Confirma shows efficiency of CAD for breast MR

Confirma Inc. this week highlighted its CADstream 3.0 computer-aided detection system for breast MRI studies featuring more automated features to help radiologists achieve higher quality imaging studies, lower costs for their practices and better communic

Hologic previews progress on breast tomosynthesis

Hologic Inc. at RSNA this week previewed add-on hardware and software breast tomosynthesis for its first full field digital breast tomosynthesis research system.

RSNA's 89th annual meeting winds down with the naming of its new president

The gavel comes down on Friday to signal the close of the 89th edition of the Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

In the OR: Image-guided Surgery Soups Up Need for Networks

By importing detailed anatomical images into an image-guided surgery planning system, neurosurgeons and other surgeons gain a roadmap to superimpose on a patient's internal structure.

Philips and Inova Heart Institute enter into multi-year, strategic agreement

Philips Medical Systems has crafted a 10-year, multi-million dollar agreement with not-for-profit healthcare system Inova Health System.

Hybrid Imaging Driving Nuclear Medicine

Look for continued developments on hybrid imaging among the nuclear medicine vendors at RSNA 2003.

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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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